The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

PROSPECT US

This Company, which is under the sanction of the Great Western
and South Wales Railway Companies, and patroni sed by the Corpo-
rations of Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Kidwelly, and the principal
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form a direct broad-guage communication between London and the
important seaport and town of Cardigan; embracing, also, the inter-
vening towns of Kidwelly, Carmarthen, Llandyssil, and Newcastle
Emlyn, by means of the South Wales and Great Western route; and
will
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and.Graigbicca districts of lime-kilns, and Crois.hands and Gorsgoch
district of coal-pits, with. Kidwelly, Carmarthen, Landyssil, New-
castle Emlyn, and Cardigan, so as to bring both lime and coal to
the country bordering on the river Twy, at a moderate cost, and by
its connexion with the South Wales, Vale of Neath, and other rail-
ways, to take back the agricultural produce of that part of the coun-
try to the iron works and other good markets. This is, therefore,
emphatically the farmers' and landowners' line.
In addition to the foregoing important objects, there is one of
great national interest proposed by this Company, viz.—the improv-
ing the port of Cardigan, and the formation of a Harbour of Refuge
in Cardigan Bay for the west coast of Wales, which can be carried
out at a comparatively moderate expense.
In a commercial and national point of view, the Harbour of Refuge
will be of paramount importance, for the dangerous navigation of the
Bay of Cardigan, which is the great highway for the American and
other traders to Liverpool from the south, and to Bristol and other
ports from the north, evidenced by the fact that upwards of 14,000
ships, on an average of five hundred tons each, annually sail through
the Bay of Cardigan, and pass by the mouth of the port, not one of
which at present can find shelter, in the event of bad weather, be-
tween Holyhead and Milford Haven, a distance of upwards of one
hundred miles. It will, therefore, readily be seen what an increase
of traffic would come into the port of Cardigan, were a Harbour of
Refuge constructed there, and there is every reason to believe that
her Majesty's Government will materially aid the carrying out of
this object, The surveys made by Captain Sheringham, by order of
the Lords of the Admiralty, expressly pointed out the advantages
possessed by Cardigan over any other place or port in that bay.
The proposed Harbour of Re'nge is inten 'ed to be constructed
close to Kemmes Head, outside the bar, and entirely free from dan-
ger, having good clay-bottom anchorage, with sufficient space and
depth of water, even for ships of the line.
The distance between London and Dublin is many miles shorter
by Cardigan than by Holyhead, and Cardigan is nearly in the direct
line from London to Waterford and Wexford.

The extent of the passenger line will be about 40 miles, and the
mineral branches about 23 miles (in all about 63 miles), which, at
14,0001. per mile, leaves 118,0001. for the cost of the Harbour of
Refuge.
The numerous and valuable supplies of coal, lime, and other qaar-
ries with sliver-lead and copper ores, upon the reute, would be
brought into immediate and close connexion with the manufacturing
districts of South Wales, Birmingham, Manchester, and the metro-
polis ; and the trade in timber for ship-building arid other purposes,
the growth of which in many parts of the counties of Carmarthen,
Cardigan, and Pembroke, has been hitherto almost profitless, will
now, with the whole agricultural produce of the district, have ready
markets afforded.

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Wales ; the importation of various descriptions of provisions alone
from Ireland exceeding 150,000 tons every year.
The through traffic, and the conveyance of tourists and travellers,
upon which many railways depend almost entirely, will likewise
form an additional source of remuneration ; the rivers and scenery
of this part of the country affording abundant attractions to the
fisherman and lover of the picturesque. ,
The distinction which the locality of the Bay of Cardigan has
hitherto possessed as a summer retreat for bathing, will also be con-
' stderably enhanced.
The starting point for the passenger traffic will be at Carmarthen,
by a junction with the South Wales Railway, thence near Conwil,
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Liandyssil, and Newcastle Emlyn, to Cardigan and the proposed
harbour at the mouth of the Tivy ; thus there will be a continuous
line from London to Cardigan without break of gauge.
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The mineral branch wlll join the passenger line at Carmarthen,
the Llandilo and Llanelly Railway), with another branch from the
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Mansel's Anna, under the various lime rocks to Van, and thence to
Kidwelly, whero it will again unite with the South Wales Railway;
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thus affordingthree several exits to the mineral traffic, and accom-
modatingtion to the country on the main line. The gradients on all parts of
the whole of the lower part of Carmarthenshire, in addi-
tion
line and its branches are so easy that none of them will exceed
' those on the South Wale* Railway, and the whole tunnelling put