The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-17 00:00:00

BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Direction beg to inform the Shareholders that
the requisite deposits with the parish-clerks, Private Bill-office, &c.,
have been made, and the whole of the notices served in compliance
with the Standing Orders of Parliament.
The value and importance of the line being universally admitted,
the Committee beg to submit the following tabular statement, from
an examination of which the public will be able to julge hew far the
engineering merits of this line will bear comparison with the other
schemes intended to accommodate the same district:—
The line from BoscalVANlFtt.gevgye,--., wntph
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Newark, and Sheffield Rallway,i S
Distance 80% miles Distance .• ••••• • • • • 92 miles
Heaviest gradient .. lin 120 Heaviest gradient. •• lin 84
Tunnelling."... •• • • 1,024 yds. Tuunelling..• •••• • • • 9,550 yds.
The line from Grantham to Bos- By opposing lines,
ton, by Boston, Newark, and
Sheffi-ld Railway, is
Distance ........ 31 miles Distance •••• • • • • 28% miles
Heaviest gradiant .. lin 165 Heaviest gradient . • lin 88
Tunnelling 528 yds. Tunnelling ••.• • • • • 1,320 yds.
The line from Nottingham to Bos- By opposing lines,
ton, by the Boston, Newark, .
and Sheffield Railway, and for •
14% miles over 'the Midland
Counties, Nottingham and Lin-
coln line, which is now con-
structing, is .
Distance 55 miles Distance

Heaviest gradient .. lin 165 Heaviest gradient . • lin H
No tunnelling. Tunnelling •••• • • • • 2,024 yds.

From an examination of the preceding, it will be s. en that the
line of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway, as a comrnuii•
cation between Boston and Sheffield, while it connects Boston and
Sleaford with Newark, which the others do net, has the advantages
over its opponents of 11% miles in distance, 8,409 yards in tun-
nelling, and of a gradient of 1 in 120, instead of 1 in 84, thus effect-
ing an enormons saving in capital.
On the two other routes compared above, the advantages as to
gradients and tunnelling greatly preponderate on the same side, that
of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway; and these, according
to a principle lately most prominently announced by a great railway
authority—" that the best railway is not always the shortest, but
that which works best"—much more than compensates for its greater
length of about three miles. _

Besides, there are fourteen miles and a half of the route from Not-
tingham to Boston, via the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway,
already in the course of construction by the Midland Company,
thereby rendering it necessary for the opposing lines to make eleven
miles additional railway with very heavy gradients, in order to save
three miles and a half In their distance, as compared with the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield line.

A more minute statement of the comparative merits of these lines,
which is now preparing, wall, it is confidently anticipated, set at rest
all doubts as to the superior engineering merits of the Boston,
Newark, and Sheffield Railway, over its rival schemes, and establish
its Parliamentary claims on an rncontrovertiblc basis.

JOAN DENNISTON, Secretary.

Mansfield, Jan. 15, 1246.