 The LA&NQLR tried unsuccessfully to get the M&MR to guarantee minimum profit levels.By mid-1904 the means of incorporating New Quay into the line was under consideration; the branch would have diverged near the site of the later Crossways Halt at the modern hamlet of Neuaddlwyd adjacent to the A482 main road.It would have turned through 90 degrees ro run southwards via Oakford, to Llanarth with a short tunnel near the present-day Llanania Arms.