 The Swansea Vale Railway was absorbed by the Midland Railway.The sequence of stations at Llanelly developed over time; the first (1839) station was close to the dock, on the direct line from Llandilo.In 1852 a platform was opened adjacent to the newly opened South Wales Railway station, reached by a line on from the earlier station by a westward sweep close to the dock itself, then running for some distance immediately on the south side of the South Wales Railway main line, which was broad gauge at this time.