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London, England, 1845-07-21 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
NORTH DEVON RAILWAY COMPANY
Capital 1,750,0001., In 70,000 Shares, of 25/. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. Gd. payable on each Share.
Liability limited to amount of Subscription.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Earl Fortescue
Tke Right Hon. Lord Clinton
• The Right Hon. Lord Poltimore
The Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, '
Lord Courtenay, •••
LorJ Viscount Ebrington, M.P.
Sir Bourchier balk Wrey, Bart.
Sir Robert George Throckmorton, Bart.
Sir John Trevelyan, Bart.
Sir Thomas Buckler Lethbridge, Bart.
Lieut.-General Sir George Adams
Sir Antony Buller
Lewis William Buck, Esq., M.P.
Charles Russell, Esq., H.P., Chairman of the Groat Western Railway

Company
Montague Gore, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the South Devon Railway

Company
Frederick Wynn Knight, Esq., M.P.
William G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western Rail-

way Company
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P.
John Heathcoat, Esq., ALP.
Edward Ayshford Sanford, Esq., NYnchead Court, Somerset
Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esq., Peamore, Devon
John Knight, Esq., Simonsbath, Devon
George S. Buck, sq., Hartland Abbey, Devon
Augustus S. Willett, Esq., Tapley Park, Devon
William Arnndell Teo, Esq., Fremington, Devon
James Wentworth Buller, Esq., Downes, Devon
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway

Company
John Hippesley, Esq., Shobrooke Park, Devon
John 31ackrell, Esq.. Barnstaple
John Beavis Bignell, Esq., 1V1.D., Barnstaple
James Whyte, Esq., Pilton House, Barnstaple
George l3ragingtou, Esq., Bideford
James Gibbs, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Rail-

way Company
Thomas G. Harding, Esq., Monkleigh, Devon
William Tardrew, Esq., Annery House, Devon
Edward St. Aubyn, sq., Director of the South Devon Railway

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Company
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Sneed Park, Bristol
Montague Baker Bere, Esq., Morebath, Somerset
Henry Badcock, Esq., Taunton, Somerset
George Elers, Esq., Stogumber, Somerset
Philip Broadmeful, Esq., Wiveliscombe, Somerset
John Blommart, Esq., Willett House, Wiveliscombe, Somerset
William Hancock, Esq., Wiviliscombe, Somerset
Fleury D. Darvey, Esq., Wiveliscombe, Somerset
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Company
William Henry Hawker, Esq , Plymouth
George Jones, Esq., Redland House, Bristol
Henry Hooper, Esq., Exeter
Patrick Miller, Esq., M.D., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Rail-

way Company -
J. C. Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter
Charles Bowles Fripp, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter

Railway Company- - -
Richard Bastard, Esq. Exeter.
Edward Davy, Esq., Esq.,
Devon
Philip Davy, Esq., Morchard Bishop, Devon
Willoughby Bryant Stawell, Rhyll, Esq., East Anstey, Devon
Henry Simonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Com-

pang
Henry Wm. Chichester, Esq., Rose House, Bampton
William Fox, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company
John Gribble, Esq., Barnstaple
Stephen Bencraft, Esq., Barnstaple
William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter- Railway
Company
Abraham Smith, Esq., Traesbeer, Devon : •
John Knill Cotton, Esq., Barnstaple
Gilbert linill Cotton, Esq., Barnstaple
William Avery, Esq., Barnstaple
William Bipford, Esq., South Molton
Humphrey John Norris Bawden, Esq., South Molton
John Rundle, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company
John Elworthy Cutliffe, Esq., South .Bolton
William Gould Smyth, Esq., South Molton
Francis Maunder Hitchcock, Esq., South Molton
Gilbert Scott, Esq., Cockram House. South Molten
William Tothill, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Com-

pany
Thomas Besley, Esq., Tiverton
Colonel Harris Radford, near Plymouth
John Colewell Roe, Esq., Lynmouth
Charles Palk Collyns, Esq., Dulverton
Ralph Cole, Esq., Plymouth
John Tamlyn, Esq., 44, Chancery-lane,oLondon
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq., F.H.B.

This Company is formed with the view of establishing a compre-
hensive system of railways for the' eounty of Devon, in connexion
with the existing lines, embracing all the principal towns, and giving
to each the advantages of communication in different directions to
the greatest possible extent, consistent with a, general piau.
Taking Barnstaple and Bideford as the principal and most im-
portant points in North Devon, and as representing a district, it is
proposed to form a direct communication eastward, towards Taunton
and Tiverton ; and southward, with Exeter on the one hand and Ply-
mouth on the other.
To effect this in the most complete manner, embracing the largest
amount of population, and giving also the greatest extent of inter-
communication between the several towns, it is proposed to carry a
line from Bideford to Barnstaple. and thence by South Melton to
Tiverton (joining the Tiverton Branch of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway), with a line diverglad eastward, from a point a few miles
east of South Molten, and carried by Wiveliscombe and Milverton,
in a direct line towards Taunton, giving the whole of the district thus
traversed a very direct communication with the north' and east via
Taunton, and with Exeter via Tiverton.
From Barnstaple and Bideford, as points of departure, another,
line would be taken southwards towards Hatherletgh, and from the
neighbourhood of that place proceed on the one hand to Plymouth,
and on the other to Exeter, via Crediton ; Okehampton being either
close to what may be palled the main line of this system, or having
a branch communicating with it. By these means, Barnstaple would
have a second road to Exeter, and,
with Bideford, would have .direct
railway communication with all the principal places of South Devon-
shire ; and Exeter would have the great advantages of railway com-
munication with all these parts.
The ground has been sufficiently surveyed to enable the
engineer to report upon the practicability of constructing lines in the
general directions above mentioned; the total length of which will be
about 120 miles, but the precise course of such lines must,be depen-
dent upon the results of more detailed surveys; the object of the
promoters being to construct the most perfect and complete system
that the country admits of, weighing equally cad fairly the advan •
Cages to the respective interests and to the public generally.
The Company is formed by an influential local proprietary, includ-
ing. the promoters of the North Devon, Crediton and Barnstaple
Railway Company, and the parties who have interested themselves
in the formation of a line from Barnstaple to Tiverton, united with
the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Rail-
way Companies, it being proposed that the three latter companies
should contribute one-half of the capital, and join in the direction of
the affairs of the Company.
The important interests which these railways will subserve and
benefit may be estimated from a statement of the fact. that the
greater part of the entire population of Devoeshire, whin exceeded
at the last census .530,000 persons, is located at the extremities of
these lines, or in the distrtots traversed by them, the latter includ-ing some of the finest agricultural portions of Devon and Somerset.
The traffic to the interior frdm the Seaport Towns, both on the
English and Bristol Channels, and the-supplies of corn, -wool, cattle,
and other prndtice which flow .to the latter in return, are already
very considerable, and may
,confidently be expected to be augmented
to a great extent by the increased facilities and diminished cost of
transport afforded by railway conveyance; the advantages of which,
especially in the articles of coal, lime, and minerals, are manifest.
The opening of a direct and speedy communication between the
north and south coasts, which the railway will effect, is a feature in
the present undertaking of much importance in a public point of view ;
and with reference to local advantage, and a profitable source of in-
come to the proprietary, a line of railway to a port in the Bristol
channel is of considerable moment.
The number of visitors attracted annually to the watering places
and romantic scenery of the north of Devon is also very great, and
will doubtless he much increased.
Arrangements are in progress for obtaining exact accounts by actual
observation of the traffic on the lines ; but the promoters are already
possessed of sufficient evidence to justify the confident expectation of
a remunerative income
on the proposed capital, which they are as-
assured is fully adequate to accomplish all the objects proposed.
The numerous assurances of support already received from the
landowners leave no doubt,of the successful issue of the application
which will be made to Parliament for an Act of Incorporation in the
next session. Powers will be sought in such Act to allow interest
annum on
at £4 per cent. per deposit, and on
theall paid up calls
during the progress of the -works ; and no subscriber will incur
liability beyond the amount of his subscription.
Applications for shares in the' form annexed _(accompanied by a
satisfactory reference when the parties are not personally known to
may be addressed to the
members of the Provisional Committee)
following Solicitors, of whim, and at the Andermenti clued Banks,
-
copies of the Prospectus may be c~l}tained.
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BANIIERS,

Messrs. Baillie, Ames, and
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Co.
Company ; the West of England
and South Wales District Bank.
R ricsot.ol; —3
i3elsersss.rss.tl‘ufeikleesy,,sll
Banking
Co. ;
Plymouth and Devonport—Messrs. Harris Harris and Co. ; Messrs.
Hodge and Norman ; the Devon and Cornwall Bank ; the Na-
tional Provincial Bank.
Exeter—Messrs. Sanders and Co. ; Messrs. Milford and Co. ; the
West of England and South Wales District Bank ; the Devon and
g, Braginton, and Co. ; the
Cornwall Bank ; the National Provincial Bank.
Barnstaple—Messrs. Drake, Dribble and Co. ; the West of England
and South Wales Dl§trict Bank; the National Provincial Bank.
Bideford and Torrington—Messrs. Hardin

National Provincial Bank.
south Molton—The National Provincial Bank.
Tiverton—Messrs. Dunsforcl, Dame, and Co. ; the National Pro-

vincial Bank.
Wiveliscombe—Messrs. Hancock and Son.
Taunton—Messrs. Stuckcys' Banking Company ; the West of Eng-
land and South Wales District Bank ; Messrs. Badcock and Co.
Tavistock—Messrs. Gill and Rundle; the Devon and Cornwall Bank.
Lannceston—Messrs. Gill and Rundle ; Messrs. Robins and Co. ; the

Devon and Cornwall Bank.
Okehampton—The National Provincial Bank.
SOLICITORS.
London—W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitshall.
Bristol—Messrs. Osborne, Ward, and Co. ; Messrs. Savery, Clark,
and Co.
Plymouth and Devonport—Messrs. Whiteford, Bennet, and Tucker.
Exeter—Charles Brutton, Esq. ; Mark Kennaway, Esq.
Barnstaple—Messrs. Brcunidge and Teller; 3lesars. L. and J. Ben-

craft.
Crediton—Thomas Pring, Esq.
South Molton—Messrs. Riccard and Son.
Tiverton—William Upton Tripp, Esq.
Wlveliscombe—Messrs. Rowcliffe and Son ; Frederick Bower, Esq.
Milvertonr-James Randolph, Esq.
Taunton—Messrs. Beadons and Sweet.
Dated, 17th July, 1815.