Cathays railway works unit for No. 1 steam railcar, in 1903. However, the TVR still needed a carriage and wagon works, so reliant were they on the transportation of coal. Ideally located close to Cardiff Docks, the site chosen was just north of Cathays railway station, as the line headed towards Llandaf railway station, in the Cathays suburb of Cardiff. A 6-road facility north of the TVR mainline, the carriage and wagon works were capable of both producing and maintaining the complete TVR and private owner range of rolling stock. The works was assured of work, as the TVR handled some 10,000 coal
Fairwater, Double Bay incorrectly domiciled as located in the suburb of Point Piper. A Crown grant was part of Captain John Piper's Point Piper Estate officially granted in 1820. This grant was subsequently acquired by Daniel Cooper and Solomon Levy in 1830. The subdivision of this part of Cooper's estate, known as the Point Piper Estate, commenced in the mid 1850s. The first leasehold title to the allotment, which was to become "Fairwater", was made in January 1863 to Edwin Thomas Beilby. Beilby (-1906) was a businessman associated with many of the prominent Sydney financial institutions of the nineteenth century. The leasehold title