The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
FROM

DUBLIN TO MULLINGAR AND ATHLONE,
(With a power of extension to Longford.)
Proroted Capital of 750,0001., to be raised in 15,000 Shares of 501

each. Deposit, 2/. 10s. per share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
John Gaynor, Esq.
James Hartley, Esq.
Captain Hatton, M.P.
James Digges La Touch; Esq.
Sir James Mahon, Bart.
R. More OTerrall, Esq., M.P.
Colonel A. Perceval
Thomas Richardson, Esq.
Hugh M. Tuite, Esq., M.P.
Joshua Watson, Esq.

Lord Castlemaine
The Lord Mayor
Charles B. Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
George A. Boyd, Esq.
Joseph Cowper, Esq.
James Daly, Esq,
Lanicl Desmond, Esq.
Fitzstephen French, Esq., M.P.
Colonel Knox Gore, Lieutenant
of Sligo

Alderman Joseph Boyce
John Ennis, Esq. Directors of the
Robert R. Guinness, Esq. Dublin and Cashel
James Perry, Esq. Railway.
Charles Wye Williams, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER —Sir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S.
BANKERS.

The liank of Ireland, the Provincial Bank at Athlone, the Lon-
don and Dublin Bank at Mullingar ; Messrs. Glynn and Co., Lon-
don ; the Royal Bank, Liverpool; the Manchester and Salford
rank, Manchester.

PROVINCIAL IECRBTAIT.
James Malley, Eq., 44, Upper Sackville-street.
ABSTRACT OF TRAFFIC.

Passengers, Parcels, Mails, tic. X54,862
Merchandise and Agricultural Produce
Cattle and Lire Stock

£95,499
Deduct annual Expenditure, 40 per cent.

*Nett annual Income nearly 8/. per cent. per annum X 59,095
The proposed line of Railway is intended to diverge from the
Dublin and Cashel Railway at or near Lucan (unless a more suit-
able terminus can be procured), running by or near the towns of
Lcixlip, Ce'bridge, Maynooth, Kilcock, Enfield, Clonard, Kinne.
bad, and Killucan, to Mullingar, and thence by Moate to Athlone,
being a distance of 68 statute miles.

The line of country has been carefully surveyed under the direc-
tions of Sir John Macneill, and, according to an estimate made by
hit; the cost of construction, including the necessary outlay for
stock, station-houses, &c., will not exceed 11,0001. a mile.

The Provincial Committee are satisfied that the estimate of their
"glueer will be sufficient, as well on account of his high profes.
ti°nal character, and his completion of the Dublin and Drogheda
Railway within the estimate, as also because the country is pe-
tbharly favourable for the construction of a railway, both as regards
gradients and the total absence of tunnels, expensive embankments,
6? any other engineering difficulties.
The town of Athlone, from its military station, its central position
tbving the thoroughfare from Ballinasloe and the West of Ireland
tg the metropolis), its situation on the River Shannon, where most
extensive and important improvements are in progress, and from
Whence no less than thirty towns can be reached by water commu-
hication makes it peculiarly adapted as a terminus for a Central
Trunk. Railway, and fully justifies the conviction that a very large
lateral traffic will tako place therefrom.

Some idea may be formed of the general traffics of the districts
embraced by the proposed railway by reference to the returns of the
(;.,ral Companies for two years previous to March, 1844, from
Ith it appears that the number of passengers carried thereon ex-
ceeded 130,000, and the receipts (excluding altogether the coach
and caravan traffic) amounted to near 30,0001. per annum, and the
tolls for the same period amounted to 45,000/. per annum ; while
the number of passengers travelling by the packet.boats on the
Grand Canal increased from 54,000 in the year 1833, to 100,605 In
the year 1837 ; and on the same canal the tonnage increased from
179,173:in the year 1827, to 215,910 tons in the year 1837.
A still greater Increase has taken place in the trade from the
Shannon, as appears by the returns of the Inland Navigation
Company, whose boats carried for the under.mentioned years :
In 1826 2,004 Tons,
1830 11,270
1836

In estimating the passenger traffic, the Provisional Directors
nave taken for their data the Railway Commissioners' Report, and
their calculations have been principally founded on the returns
therein. But with such information before them, chiefly of an
',MOM nature, and having regard to the fact of there being, for
several years past, conveyances on the line of the proposed railway
capable of transmitting upwards of 300 passengers daily from either
terminus, the Committee consider it reasonable to double the traffic
ti Poll all species of passengers, and to add one.third for lateral
e
''aitC; and these calculations are short of the actual fesult of rail.
way statistics in England, or in this country, so far as the results
are Yet known,
The calculations respecting the cattle and merchandise traffic
have been compiled from the Canal Returns, and those furnished
'Y sworn enumerators employed sometime since for the purpose,
"d a considerable deduction bas been made as regards both species
srtraffic, upon the assumption that the proposed railway would
tot be used except for fat cattle, sheep, and pigs, intended for the
Dublin and English markets, and for those articles which, from
their value, would be likely to bear the expense of railway transit.
Communications have been received from several of the most
'hfluential landowners along the proposed line of railway, who
are most favourable to the undertaking, and have promised to
tender it every support in their power.
The necessary plans and surveys, with all other preliminary
"tangements, will be ready so as to apply to Parliament for a Bill
• incorporate the Compan, early in the ensuing session ; and
4terest at the rate of 4/. per cent., will be allowed to subscribers,
tin their deposits, until the railway is completed.
Applications for Shares and copies of the Prospectus to be made
to the Provisional Secretary, 44, Upper Sackville- street, and the
Dublin Brokers ; the Manager of the Provincial Bank, Athlone ;
the Manager of the London and Dublin Bank, Mullingar ; Messrs.
l'atirence, Cazenove, and Pearce, London; Messrs. John Ilailton
4;1 Sons, Manche.ter ; Mr. Samuel Wood, jun., Liverpool ; Mr.
'trees Pearson, Birmingham ; and Messrs. John Boyce
,and Co.,
Glasgow.
• The increase in the traffic arising from Ballinasloe fair may
be fairly estimated at 2,000/. per annum, the average number of
stock sold there for three years previous to October, 1843, being—.
adlack Cattle, 10,397 ; sheep, 69,426.

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