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BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share, in accordance with the standing orders of
the Houses of Lords and Commons.
No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no Subscriber to be
answerable beyond the Amount of his Subscription.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
Geo. Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Birmingham
John Wilks Unett, Esq., The Woodlands, Smethwick, Staffordshire
George Enett, Esq., The Laurels, llandsworth, Staffordshire
William Jacot, Esq., New Hall, Sutton CoMeld
John Godfrey Hudson, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor of the London Central Terminus Company
George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Warwickshire, Direc-
tor of the South Staffordshire and the Southampton and Oxford
Railways
Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham
Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe House, Erdington, Warwickshire
R. - Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and Filton-park,
Bristol
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's- park, London, and
Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant
W. L. Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Great Western (Irish), and
the Worcester and South Wales Railways
Thos. Davies, Esq., The Austens, Handsworth, Staffordshire
David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham
Bell Eicock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham
Thomas Bollman Upfil, Esq. Birmingham
Edward Rabone, Esq., Smethwick Hall, Staffordshire
Major Moore, Director of the Great Indian Railway
Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Eungerford yark, Wilts, Military Secretary
at Hyderabad
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
T. R. Wright, Esq„ Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tam-
worth, Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
J. T. Walters, Esq., Rugeley
W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
Locke Park Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
John Kempe Devonshire, Esq., River Dale Villa, Hampton
William Royden Watts, Esq., Birmingham
J. Mee Mathews, Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Manchester Railway
Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham
Thomas Pemberton, Esq., Wharstone House, near Birmingham
Capt. M'Dougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton
John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Company's Service,
Euston-place, Euston-square, London
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Insurance
Company
Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine
Railway, &c., &c.
John Johnson, Captain, R.N., Edgbaston, Birmingham
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham
Hercules Hailer Duncocks, Esq., Manor House, Kempsey, Glouces-
tershire
William Edwards, Esq., Aston, near Birmingham
John George Norbury, Esq., Manchester House, Atherstone, Direc-
tor of the Tean and Dove Valley and South Staffordshire Railways
Geo. Fredirick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire
James Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Benefield House, near Birmingham
John Russell, Esq., Ilandsworth, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and Leeds and
Liverpool Railway
Joshua Horton, Esq., /Etna Iron-works, Smethwick, Staffordshire
Richard Underhill, Esq., Birmingham
R. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Di-
rect, the Leicester and Tamworth Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Railway Companies
(With power to add to their number.)
ACTING ENGINEER.—E. J. Maude, Esq., C.E.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
J. Graham, Esq., 60, Moorgate-street, London.
Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-street, Strand, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and C. H. Jagger,
Esq., New-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., London.
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham.

This short but very important Line of Railway will commence at
the nearest point on the Trent Valley Railway to the City of Lich-
field, and proceed through a rich and populous country, by Shenstone,
Sutton Coldfleld, and Erdington, to the town of Birmingham.
The length of the Line will be only about sixteen miles, and a
glance at the map will suffice to show the very numerous advan-
tages which this Railway offers. The projected " South Union Rail-
way," from Manchester, joins or falls into the Trent Valley Railway
just below Lichfield, and, proceeding along the Trent Valley Line,
via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and most direct
route from Manchester to London, but will leave Birmingham on the
west, which can only be reached by the circuitous route through
Tamworth, a distance of twenty-five miles.
The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Railway will effect an ex-
tension of the South Union, North Staffordshire, and other projected
Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingham, and thus
save no less than nine miles in the twenty-five, and constitute the
shortest andbost ne between Manchester and Birmingham yet de-
vised.

As to the returns to be expected for the capital embarked, it is
sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large income aria-
Ng from the local passengerd goods traffic (the latter of which is
very great, as most of the awicultural supplies of Birmingham, the
emporium of the Midland Counties, and its densely populated neigh-
bourhood, are derived from the vicinities of, and must pass along this
Line), every passenger direct from Manchester to Birmingham must
necessarily proceed along the projected Railway, should either of the
lines ftom Manchester to Lichfield be made.

This line will also form the nearest route from Derby and the
North to Birmingham. .

The Capital proposed to be raised is 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of
201. each. A deposit of 21. 2s. per Share will be required to be paid
upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with the Bankers
of the Company.
No call will be made until the Act of Parliament shall be obtained,
and power will be taken in the Act to allow Interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, upon the amount of each call, from the date of payment
until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not be answerable
beyond the amount of their Shares.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, which
shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to amalgamate with
any other Railway now formed, or to be formed, to extend or make
Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the present un-
dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may deem proper,
will be ready on the day fixed for the payment of deposit, and will
be required to be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged
for certificates of Scrip ; and the shares of any Subscribers making
default in the execution of those deeds within the time limited, of
which fourteen days' notice will be given, will be absolutely forfeited.
No application for shares can be attended to, unless accompanied
by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the
Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker.
Forms of application for shares, copies of the prospectus, and a
map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary offices of the
Company, 60, Moorgate-street, London; from the Solicitors ; from
Local Agents; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Throgmorton-street,
London ; Mr. W. H. Collis, 104, New-street, Birmingham ; M essrs.
Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownall and Worthington, Liver-
pooleeds ; ; Mr. John Barlow, Manchester
tree Messrs.t, Robinson and Kurlay,
L Mr. Thomas Evans, Mllsom-s Bath ; Messrs. Lllgood
and Harrison, Leicester.

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BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR BIIAIIES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Lichfield
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above Company; and I undertake to accept the same, Or
such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of V. 25. per share thereon, and to execute the Subscribers'
agreement and Parliamentary contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY,
By a Juuction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford.
Distance, 120 miles.
Capital 2,500,000?., in 100,000 Shares of 25?. each.
Deposit V. 12s. 6d. per Share.
(Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.)
PRESENT PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
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(The names of a further Provisional Committee will be published in
a few days.)
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director
of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and
Erewash Valley Extension Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the
Chepstow, Forest of Dean, an Gloucester Junction Railway, of
the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways
Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and
Trent Valley Continuation Railways
C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
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John Dyng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of
the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoseter, and Stafford,
Railways

William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction
Railways

Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Eaten-
_ sion Railway _ _ _

John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London-
derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of
the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway
Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton
Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds
James Bateman Esq., Park House, near Bradford

William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market -
Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Junction allway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway

[enry Slierard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street

W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Loudon and Birmini;,,Yo,Exten-
sion

Francis Dacre, Esq., StraVord, Essex

Samuel Bateman, Esq„ Croft house, near Bradford, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
R. Davenport, Esq., Alverston, near Derby, Director of tho Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Railway

A. A. li-venport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfie/d, Director of the Nottingham, Mans-
field, and Midland Junction Railway
Martin Funtiss, Esq., 3lansfleld, Director of the Erewash and Shef-
field Railway
11. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
Peter Morrison, sq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and
of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Francis Bennett Goldney, Esq., Manor House, Brixton, Director of
the Derby, Uttoxetcr, and tafford, and Direct Manchester (Ras-
trick's line) Railways
_ _ _

Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside
William Gatliff, Esq., 12, Park-place, Leeds, Director of the West
Yorkshire and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway

Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham
Robert Rerries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct Railway
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Samuel Hammond, Esq., feeds
Richard Hargrave, Esq., York-place, Leeds

S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val-
ley Extension and West Midland Railways
Thomas Heels, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North-
Eastern, and of the LiverpJol and Leeds Direct Railways
John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc-
tor ofthe Derby and Stafford Railway

rilliam Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Di-
rector of the York and Hull Railway
larwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma-
gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley
Railways

Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway

Henry Jennings, Esq., Park-place, Leeds, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole, and Bradford and Wakefield
Railways

Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South
Midland and Oxford Extension Railways

Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways

William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railways

Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway

Thomas Rogers, Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway

John Reginald Riddell, Esq., i3ycnllah House, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway

Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railways

George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway

Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway

William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter,
and Stafford Railway.
James Robinson, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire

Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and
Blythe Valleys Railways
George Turner, Esq., Hunton-hill, near Birmingham, Director of the
South Staffordshire, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford
Junction Railways.
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John M‘Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court
Owen Gray, Esq., I 25, Great Tower-street,
J. B. Esq.,

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.

Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co:
The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought
forward.

The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manche -
ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake-
field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern
Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of
that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia-
ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing
railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk
line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route
within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster,
Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton
Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford.

The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for
the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo-
rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by any existing Railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several
counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi-
dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in
operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being
formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of
a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be
presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica-
tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but
would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as
well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and
Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis,'which would
be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any
other Company, and when cost of construction is considered, there
cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great
Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important
a turing
fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from t
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the GreateLhe:eadisn
trunk line,
and London
Direct Railway, and by branch railways toimth
through which all goods from the whole of asenflfotertushriinpgmen
- se ot cartage, and in
dis-
tricts could be conveyed at once to these Y, are _ h
thereby avoiding the present delay. and exPen,
reality establishing an almost
direct and an invaluable connexion
between the rivers Clyde and Thames.
• ed that there are no engineering difficulties,
It has been ascertain
and the
withgradients remarkably good, and
that the works will be easy,
any
that it will not materially interfere ornamental property,
The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
the amount of their subscriptions.
to
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and aso to
extend the lino to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event
of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J.
R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs Owen Gray and
Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street,
the joint solicitors,
Co th to the Company,
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at the Company's temporary offices, London.
No application will be attended to unlessPaccaloit-nep°urtanied'
by
a satis-
factory reference.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct

Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 25/.
each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit
thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and
also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required.

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