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London, England, 1845-10-11 00:00:00

►IIHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
11 RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHAL L. •

(Provisionally Registered.)
Bapitall,2oo,ooo/., in 44,009 Shares of 251. each
Deposit 21. 12s. fid. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Portarliugton
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park. Oxon
The Right Hon. Lord Softball, Gunton-park, North Walshana
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley
The Right Hon. Lord A. Conyngliam, Mickleham-hall, Dorking
The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Danner, M.P., 6, Tllney
street, Park-lane, Director of the Brighton ant Cheltenham Direct
Railway
The Right Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent
Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, 31. P., 13, Coaduit-street, Di-
rector of the East and West Junction Railway
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningliam, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard,. . Alderman of London,
Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckingham-
shire, Chairman of the Minehead and •Rriclgewater Railway
Lieut.-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place,
Bryanston7square, Director of the Groat Western Extension

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Atmospheric Railway
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the Central Kent Railway
James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester,
Warwick, and Rugby Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director 'of the
Dover and Bristol Railway
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, I)irector of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
Major J. T. Croft, 15, Regent-street, Vice-Chairman of Remington's
Lodeon and Manchester Direct Railway
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and
Cheltenham Direct Railway
Major Graham; late Scots Greys,l6, Grove, Clapham
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Manchester Railway
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester-
square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction
Railway
James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal-
way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully-castle
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Ferrand.Deaden, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale
Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool
James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire
Thomas Dowglaste, Esq., Marlborough-place, St.
John's-wood 1 Directors of the
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon-
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe-
G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park I ter Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, J
John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-place, Kensington
Francis Roose, sq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square
Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equitable and Law
Life Assurance Companies, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Railway
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts
Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's
Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Director of the
London and South Wales irect Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainshorough
Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury
William Doe Belcher, Esq., Mayor of Abingdon
John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon
John Tomkins, Esq.
John Harris, Esq. Members of the Town Council, Abing-
Thomas Copeland, Esq. don
Edwin James Trendell, Esq.,
John King, Esq., Abingdon
John Aldworth,Esq.,Frilforcl, Berks
Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon
William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon
William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon
Isaac Grubb. Esq
John Towle, Esq.
Samuel Steane, Esq.
Members of the City Council, Oxford
Richard Chaundy, Esq.
Charles Hickman, Esq.
John Weaving, Esq.,
R. C. Godfrey, Esq. J
James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, a
Justice of the Peace for Oxon and Berks, and Director of the Lon-
do and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Captain H. Strong, Manager of the London and County Bank, Ox-
ford and Worcester Extension Railway.
William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford
Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford
John Looker, Esq., Oxford
William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon
Mr. Charles Shillingford, wine-merchant, Boxier Town, Oxon
Mr. A. Williams, Somer Town, Oxon
Mr. Wm. Miller, Oxford
Mr. John Price, Oxford
Mr. H. Hitchcock, chemist, Oxford
Mr. John Alden, Oxford
Mr. H. Dormer, Oxford
Mr. R. Smith, Oxford
Mr. Charles Miller, Oxford ,
Mr. Joseph Steele, Oxford •
Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford
Mr. Win. Thompson, Oxford
Mr. R. T. Jones, Oxford
Jonathan Fiske, Esq., Oxford
C. Vincent, Esq., Oxford
Mr. Jno. Birt, Oxford
Mr. C. Lipscomb, Binsey, Berks
Mr. Jno. Franklin, Coroner, Berks
James Wickens, E•q., Oxford
John Brightman, Esq , Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
Hounslow Railway
David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tha Eastern and
Midland Counties Railway
F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley
Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate
Railway
Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage
Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London

Docks _
Bartow, ESq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the
Commercial and General Life Assurance Association
Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
John King, Esq., St. J•hn's-wood, London, Director of the Somcr-
setshire Midland Railway
Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway
D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct
Independent London and Manchester Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tatbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway
T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir-
kenhead and HolyheAd Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot-

teries Railways
Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn,
Thetford, and Ipswich Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and

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Leicester Railway
Frederick Chamfer, Esq., 1?
llalkin-street, Belgrave-square,
Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway
George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby
and Warwick Railway

(With power to add to their number).
ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—The London and Westminster Bank.
Oxford—The London and County Bank.
Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank.
Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co.
Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank
Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Oxford—George P. Hester, Esq., Town Clerk, and Jno.
Francis Wilde, Esq.
Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq.
Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son
Wantage—William Ormond, Esq.
Hungerford and Marlborough—John Halcomb, Esq.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
The importance of connecting remote parts of E.:gland by rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be beater exemplified than by the line
which is Low proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north -west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the south and west of the latter ; and the
proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
ecvirse of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
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and Lugershall, and
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.
The Oxford and t-altsbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of communication be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, f
W will afford to thefoyr boretivli of
accommodation, Abingdon,
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thee ilea m
adjacentarket t o
villages,rs o
an importantntu ge'
iiuran
of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Sails-
u
Sails-
bury into immediate connexion with the City and University of
Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication
with the sister University a Cambridge ; thus strengthening the
ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com-
mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be
essentially enhanced.
The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled.
The Same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well tie Hungerford and Ludgershw all,
trclaims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railay affic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to \Vantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection iroM Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hangerlbrd and Lodgers.
hall, to Salisbary, and thence to the Oath and western ports and dis-
tricts.
Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs.
Mingle and Preston, 47, moorgate-street, and to the following
Brokers:—Messrs. Peppercorn. 2, Old Broad-street, and Messrs.
Preece and Evans, Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and
Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr.
Messrs. A. and C.
John O'Neil, Manchester;Bradshaw, and Messrs.
Welibelovcd and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr.
James Pearson, Birmingham; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co ,
Bradford ; Mr. Win. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Hasty and
Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh;
Messrs Black
and Co., and Messrs. RUOI4IIBII and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Wm.
Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committe Railway the Oxford and Salisbury Direct
.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the
above undertaking ; and I hereby- agree to accept the
same, or any
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less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de-
posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers'
Agreement, Parlia-
mentary Contract, ;and all other necessary instruments, when re-
quired so to do.

I am, Gentlemen, your obed;ent Servant,
Name in full
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