 The contractors Peto and Betts were contractors for the construction as well as Treadwells.Samuel Morton Peto was associated with a solicitor named John Parson, and he and Peto were elected to the Board.Parson arranged an agreement (on 21 February 1851) that the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway would work the OW&WR as a line - Carter was solicitor to both of these major companies.