Aerial view of the estate looking southeast in 1952. At this point in the Taff Valley were, from east to west, the Alexandra Railway, the disused Glamorganshire Canal, Nantgarw Colliery, the dismantled Cardiff Railway, the A470 North-South trunk road, seen in this section as a dual-carriageway, the buildings of the trading estate, River Taff and the four-tracked Taff Vale Railway