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THE THAMES EMBANKMENT AND
RAILWAY JUNCTION. COMPANY.
Provisionally ReAkstered.
Temporary Offices, No. 32, Charing-cross.
Capital 1,800,0001., in 90,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/.
PUOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
James Ackers, Esq., M.P.
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Late Colonial Secretary of Ceylon
John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
13. Baines, Esq., Director of the Croydon Railway Company
C. B. Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the North Devon Railway
Company
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwelle.jtamia
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Edward Henry Chapman, Esq., Leaclenhall-street
John Chevalier Cobbold, Chairman of the Eastern Union Railway
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart.
J. N. Daniel, Esq., Chairman of the Blackwall Railway Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Sir James Duke, M.P. and Alderman
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., 31. P.
James Esdaile, Esq., Director of the Loudon and South Essex Railway
Company
Thomas Fanicomb, Esq., Alderman •
Right Hon. Sir Augustus Foster, Bart., New-street, Spring-gardens
Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Bart., Queen-square, Westminster
W. Haigh, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Blackwall Railway Company
W. E. Hickson, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Rail-
way Company
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq.
John James Hope Johnstone, Esq., M.P.
Captain B. M. Kelly, R.N., Director of the Brighten Railway Com-
pany
James Leman, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-llelds
F. Macnaghten, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Rail-
way Company
Sir William Magnay, Bart. and Alderman
Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.
John Martin, Esq., K.L., Allsop's-terrace, New-road
James Matheson, Esq., M.P.
Sir William Molesworth, Bart.
David Ogilvy, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Railway
Colonel Reid, 2d Life Guards
Major-General Sir James Reymett, K.C.H.
Major Jelf Sharp
Andrew Spottlswoode, Esq.
Patrick MaxwellfStewart, Esq., 11. P., Chairman of the London and
Westminster Bank
John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square
Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P.
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
P. A. Taylor, Esq., Croydon
Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P.
W. A.
.Wwilkyisnse,oEn,3qE7 M.P..l,hairmen of the Croydon Railway Company
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With power to add to their number.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—The EARL of DEVON.
VICE CHAIRMEN
Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P.
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Philip instrutheajr, EsqJelf Sharp.
Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq.
John Bowring, LL.D., M.P.
Sir A. D. Croft, Bart.
J. N. Daniell, Esq.
Howard Elphinstone, Esq. M.P.

Capt. B. M. Kelly, R.N.
W. E. Hickson, Esq.
Sir William Magnay, Bart.
Capt. C. W. Tyndale
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P.
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.

Enomaza—Themas Page. Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bridges and Mason, Red Lion-square.
ARCHITECTS AND SURVEYORS—MeSSrS. Fowler and Austin.

BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank
The Union Bank of London
The Commercial Bank of London

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain, Esqs., 18, Parliament-street
Joseph Parkes Esq., 21, Great George-street
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—E. W. Williams, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.

This Company has been formed by the Union of the Promoters
of the Thames Embankment and Atmospheric Railway Company
with the Promoters of the Thames Embankment and City Railway
Company. . . .

Tiie diject of the united Company is to carry into effect the re-
port of the Metropolitan Improvement Commissioners (7th February,
1844) recommending an embankment of the northern shore of the
Thames, between Blackfriars and Westminster bridges, and preceding
reports of Committees of the House of Commons in favour of in-
creased facilities of traffic to relieve the narrow and over-crowded
thoroughfares which form the only existing communications between
the east and west end of the Metropolis.
This'great public improvement has hitherto been delayed by the
difficulty of providing adequate funds'from resources not interfering
conn as for Metro olitan
with the general taxation of the country ; but it has appeared to the
promoters of the present united Company that the object may new
be attained, and be rendered a highly profitable investment for
capital, by combining with it the additional advantages of railway
communication.
Commissioners Improvements, It is proposed therefore to execitte the line of embankment founded
Oa the plan of Mr. Page, according to the recommendation of her
Majesty's
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combine with it a railway on the atmospheric principle
Hunger-
ford Market, or its neighbourhood, to the vicinity of London-bridge
and the Bank, and thence to the Blackwall Railway near Fenchurch-
street; and also to join the various railways terininating at London-
bridge Station, either by one of the -existing bridges, or by a new
bridge to be constructed for the object.
It is obvious that this pleein freig,
great undertaking cannot be carried into
effect without the sanction of, Government. For the purpose of ob-
taining such sanction, proposals have been submitted to the Metropo-
litan Commissioners regarding the execution and management of the
work, and which the promoters expect will receive a favourable con-
sideration both from that board and the City authorities.
The levels of the embankment and railway will be so arranged as
not to interfere with the wharves. The point where the line will
diverge from the river side, to join the Blackwall Terminus, will be
determined by the comparative cost and utility of continuing by the
river side to London-bridge, or of forming a new street, adapted to
the railway, parallel with the Thames.
The names on the Provisional Committee show that the various
Companies whose railways the Thames Embankment and Railway
Junction Company is intended to unite, will promote its progress ; and
the support of the public at large may be anticipated, for the following
among other important reasons.
Ist A river-side terrace, equally striking in point of appearance
and utility, affording a spacious drive and promenade available for
the purposes of health and recreation, will be afforded to the public
without resort to the Consolidated Fund, while the most crowded
thoroughfares of the City will be at the same time relieved from part
of the vast traffic which now obstructs them, and by an improved
mode of railway transit, free from noise, smoke, and danger.
2i. The improvement of the navigation of the River, and of the Me-
tropolitan sewerage, and the removal from the northern shore of the
unsightly and unwholesome accumulations of mud which now dis-
figure it.
3d. The connexion of the principal towns and seaports of the
southern and eastern coasts with the centre of the Metropolis.
An estimate has been formed of the traffic between the projected
termini ; but to avoid the appearance of exaggeration, the Provisional
Directors submit only the following general calculation, which shows
an ample return for the capital invested. Nobody ?an reasonably
doubt this return who considers the multitudes continually passing
and repassing to and from the City on foot, in omnibuses and other
carriages, and in steam-boats, and without reckoning the very largely
increased traffic that must accrue by the junction with the above-
mentioned railways, and their many projected extensions. When it
is remembered also that the transit will occupy less than five minutes,
instead of, as at present, twenty minutes to half an hour, the savinpower g
-
alone of valuable time to men of business, &c., must insure a
ful support to this undertaking.
The following table exhibits the immense traffic between the City
and the West End : 16,000 Passengers
Steamers averaging 370 trips per day • •
Omnibuses ditto 2,120 journies per day .. 20,000 ditto
13
Cabs and private carriages, ditto 6,585 • • ,OOO ditto

Foot passengers, ditto

49,000 ditto
76,000 ditto

If one-third only of the passengers by
steamers and carriages use the raihvay
And one-eight of the foot passengers • •
Ind of those travelling to and fro, from the
different railways connected with ho
Blackwall and London-bridge termini ..

125,000 Persona daily.

16,300
9,500

12,200

The aggregate would be •
Assuming that the improved mode of transit
will increase the number of passengers
about one-third (the usual calculation being
double) the daily number will be 50,000.
An average of 3d. would give 6251. per
day, or • • • • • • • •
And deducting for expenses

38,000

•• £228,125 per annum
• • 57,000

There would remain • • £171,125
Made satisfactory to
Or above nine per cent. upon the capital. An increase, too, may
be reasonably expected from the traffic of the eastern and western
lines of railway crossing the River for communication with the
central terminus, for which a Company has
beeben formed, and with
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Applications for Shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to
the Provisional Directors, at the temporary office of the Company,
32, Charing-cross ;to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents ; and
ienxtepreeesttelthat arrangements will
gMheasmsrs. Watson and Co ,
to the following Agents and Sharebrokers:—Messrs. It. and W.
; Mr. Luke Arnold,
lichens and Harrison, Threadneedle-street; Mr. IL J. Williams, 80,
Old Broad-street; Barclay, Allsop; and Mercier, Exchange-buildings ;
Messrs. Mackenzie and Lawrence, 38, Cornhill, London ; Messrs.
Forsyth and Pritchard, Liverpool ; Messrs. Johnstone 'and Bradley,
n
Bristol;Ma neh e s t3etrr
.; Sir.Th ~,,,,J James
Leeds ; Mr. Robert Allan, and Messrs. John -Robertson and C 0..,
Edinburgh ; Mac Ewen and Auld, and Druids and Oockbum, Glasgow;
of whom Prospectuses may be obtained. ' Such parties as are Share-
holders in the Blackwall, Croydon, and London, South Essex, and
London and Dover- Railway Companies, are requested to signify the
eSsanrfeaornd,"E'xie3tinern:
same in their letters of application-: - -- • •
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR.. SHARES,
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To the.. Provisional Directors of the Thames Embankment and
Railway Junction Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me
) f.sach in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept
sae same, or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the
deposit of 2/. per share thereon, and to sign the subscribers' Agree.
ment and Parliamentary Contract when required.
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TIIAMES EMBANKMENT and RAILWAY
JUNCTION COMrANY.
Chainnan.—The EARL of Dr,yoN.
Shareholders in the Blackwall, the Croydon, the South Eastern
and South Essex Railway Companies, desirous of obtaining Shares
hi the above united THAMES EMBANKMENT and .7it AILWAY
JUNCTION COMPANY, are requested to name the Company in
which they have a proprietary Interest, in their letters of application.
Z. W. WILLIAItS, Secretary pro tem.

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