Wel, mae Dic Mortimer wedi bod yn crwydro Pentre-baen a’r hen reilffyrdd yn ddiweddar:
Apart from Fairwater and Pentrebane locals, few Cardiffians ever go here.
[…] I was still conscious of treading on blighted ground marked for future destruction. The ravishing beauty was intensified by a dull ache of regret. I’d heard it so often before: “I remember when this was all fields…” my mother used to say about Llanrumney and my grandmother used to say about Penylan. Now I could hear myself saying the same thing in 20 years time to my grandchildren about Waterhall. Premature nostalgia. This could be the last time…
Criss-crossing the area are a number of abandoned railway lines, providing a network of pathways that take you deep into otherwise inacessible zones. I followed the line of the ‘Waterhall Branch’, a fascinating, little-known mineral railway which, more by accident than design, is still largely extant. […]
O’n i’n arfer mynd i ysgol yn y Tyllgoed. Dw i’n siŵr bod i wedi cerdded lawr darn o lwybr heb sylweddoli bod e’n hen reilffordd o’r cymoedd – heb sôn am gwerthfawrogi’r hanes. Fy amgylchedd, fy milltir sgwar yn y 90au. Dylwn i fynd yn ôl.
Hefyd dw i eisiau cerdded neu beicio lan yr Afon Elái o Grangetown i Donypandy rhywbryd.