 This ambitious scheme did not gain enough support to proceed, although some landowners offered to exchange land for shares.Proposals changed into a railway from Gaerwen to Amlwch, with another meeting in Llangefni, on 1 August 1861.David Davies and his partner Ezra Roberts offered to build the line at a cost of £6,000 per mile, complete except for rolling stock, or for £5,000 per mile, with the company to purchase the land and meet "preliminary and parliamentary expenses".