Cathays railway works unit and student accommodation block. Cathays railway works Cathays railways works was a railway engineering development by the Taff Vale Railway to provide its main carriage and wagon works, as well as its main railway depot for the entire TVR system, located in the Cathays suburb of Cardiff, South Wales. Taken over by the Great Western Railway, after nationalisation under British Railways they sold off the carriage and wagon works to the Pullman Company Ltd. Today, both the site of the railway depot and the carriage and wagon works have been redeveloped, mainly with buildings and commercial activities associated with
Fairwater, Double Bay stone retaining walls being both part of the earlier build of the house and as an element which set the garden and house within the land allotment. The plantings within a large land holding situated on the foreshore of Port Jackson. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. The association between "Fairwater" and J. W. Manson in view of the house being one of a number of new buildings undertaken by Manson and Pickering in the local area during the period -1912. Fairwater, Double Bay Fairwater