 The following day Henry Robertson appeared proposing joint construction of the Swansea and Carmarthen lines with the Central Wales Railway, and running powers over the Central Wales line from Craven Arms, not far from Shrewsbury on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.The Llanelly directors favoured Penson and his partners, and the arrangement was agreed at a shareholders’ Extraordinary General Meeting on 31 October 1860.The partners soon turned out to be insubstantial, as Johns and then Savin withdrew.