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London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

THE SHEFFIELD, WORTLEY, SILK-
STON, AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,0001. in '20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
J. \V. R. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford Railway
William Alexander, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Liver-
pool end Leeds. Direct, and the Midland and Thirak Railways
Joseph Austin, Esq., Headingley Hill, Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, mad the Leeds and York Railways
W. P. Bradshaw, Esq., Woodthorpe Hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefit Id
Charles Bamford, jun, Esq , Hull, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
William Broadhurst, Esq., West fielditerrace, Sheffield
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Alexander Bs own, Esq., Headingley, Leeds
Isaac Ilurbill, Esq., Highfield-cottege, Beeston, Leeds
Wm. Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
I Robt. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
Railway
IJoseph Clarke, Esq., Sherburn, Ferrybridge
John Priston Cutts, Esq.. Sheffield
John 11. Coates, Esq., Wakefield
John Alcock Dixon, Esq , Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Win. Dewson, Esq, Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Lynn, \Visbeach, and Boston Railway
John Egginton, Esq., a Magistrate of the Borough of Hull
Thomas England, Esq., Headingley, Leeds, Director of the West
Junction and the Leeds and York Railways
Robert John Ellershaw, Esq., Leeds
Ephraim Elsworth, Esq., Sandford-house, Kirkstall, near Leeds
George Earle, Esq , Hull
John Farcett, Esq., Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct,
and the Direct Western Railways
Wm. Gresham, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lincoln
Augustus G. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Potter Newton, near Leeds
Frederick Hattersley, Esq., West House, Bradford
Robert Henries, Esq., Leeds
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston, near Leeds
John llall, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and hull, and East
and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
William Hutchinson, Esq , Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the
Great Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Junction
Railway
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate Junction, and the Direct Western Railways
J. Hastings Ingham, Esq., Martin house, near Skipton, a Magis-
trate of the %Vest Riding
John Heard, Esq , Alderman of Nottingham, Director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Thomas Herbert, Esq., Alderman of Nottingham
Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways
Thomas Jessop, Esq., Claremont-place, Sheffield
Sydney Jessop, Esq., Manchester
Charles Locke, Esq., Shapethorpe-house, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and llarrogate Junction Railway
James Martin, Esq., Wakefield
James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Director
of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
Robert Mitchell, Esq., the Mount, Sheffield
Joseph Ogdin March, Esq., Beech-grove, Leeds
George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the
Wakefield and llarrogate Junction, and the Bradford, Wake-
field, and Midland Railways
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Sheffield
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefild, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and the Leads, York,
and Midland Railways
E. W. Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Edward Rook, Esq., King-street, Leeds
James Reffit, Esq., Leeds
Edward Spence, Esq., Tilworth, near Hull, Director of the York-
shire and Glasgow and the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick
Rail ways
Themes Sidney, Esq., Sheriff and Alderman of London
Edw. Sidebottom, Esq., Piedwick-hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmantorn lodge, near Chesterfield, Di-
rector of the North Derbyshire Union, and the Sheffield, Box.
ton, Leek, and Potteries Railway
Itienara mat", usq , ea.saaasaiaeta Shrffield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
Thomas Burdett Turton, Esq., Alderman of Sheffield
•John Tall, Esq., Hull
John Taylor, Esq., Belle Vue terrace, Hull, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
George Turton, Esq., Bagden-lodge, Clayton West, near 'Judders.
field, Director of the Bristol and Dove Railway
Joseph Turton, Esq., Brook-hill, Sheffield
Edward Vickers, Esq., Firs-hill, Sheffield
Benjamin Vickers, Esq., West Cliffs., Sheffield
James Wall, Esq., Osgathorpe-hills, Sheffield, a Director of the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Joseph Wood, Esq., Sandal, near Wakefield, a Director of the
Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway
George Walker, Esq., Osgathorpe Cottage, Sheffield
George Wall, Esq., Woodside, Sheffield
Rev. George Atkinson Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Di-
rector ef the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, the Leeds, York,
and Midland, and the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales
Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
ENGINEER-I\-Curie.—John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq., F.R.S.,
London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Upton and Clapham, Leeds
Messrs. Smith ansi Wightman, Sheffield
' BANKERS.
I London : Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
Leeds : Messrs. Beckett and Co.
Sheffield : The Sheffield and Ilallamshire Banking Company
Wakefield : Messrs. Leathern, Tew, and Co.
Barnsley : The Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company.
SECRE'EARV.—Henry Jubb, Esq.
The mail] line of this railway will be about fifteen miles in
length. Commencing at the Wortley Station, on the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway, it will pass through the town of Silkston, and
near to Dodworth, accommodating the whole of that valuable
mining district with the most reads outlet for its celebrated coal to
all parts of the kingdom. It proceeds by Darton, Chapelthorpe,
and Sandal, to Wakefield, where it will join the Leeds and Man.
cheater, and the newly projected railways to Leeds and Harrogate,
and to Pontefract and Goole.
The inhabitants of Barnsley will also be accommodated by a
branch to that town, from the main line, giving them direct and
easy communication with the north and south.
The distance from Leeds to Sheffield by this line, and its con-
nexions northwards, will be only thirty-two miles ; by the present
route it is thirty-eight miles. The distance from Wakefield to
Sheffield by this line will be only twenty-three miles ; it is now, by
way of Normanton, thirty-one miles ; and by way of Oakenshaw,
twenty-eight miles, between two and three of which are by omni-
bus. Besides this saving of actual distance, the tedious stoppages
at Masborough and Normanton, the delays of which are often equal
to twenty miles of travelling, will be avoided,
A careful survey has been made, by an experienced surveyor,
who reports that the line from Wakefield to Silkston will
run with easy gradients nearly on the surface of the ground for
, the greater part of the way ; and that. the only work of any mag-
nitude will be a tunnel, about six hundred yards long, at Woolley.
common, which will occasion in the approach to it from Wake-
field an ascending gradient of 1 in 108. The works between
Silkston and Wortley are of a heavier character, but in no
part will the gradient be more than lin 112. The ruling
gradient will be about 1 in 180.
This undertaking, in connexion with other railways, is in-
tended to accomplish the following very important objects :—First,
a direct line of communication between London and Leeds, the
Northern Counties and Scotland. Secondly, the opening of the
extensive and valuable coalfields of Silkston, Dodworth, Barns-
ley, and the adjacent districts, to the manufacturing arid other
towns of Yorkshire, the ports of Hull, Selby, Goole, Great
Grimsby, and Boston, and also to the Metropolis, and the Mid-
land, and Western counties. Thirdly, the accommodation of the
inhabitants of the places through which this railway will pass,
with those facilities of conveyance for passengers, of
which, from the almost entire absence of good roads,
as well as railways, they have hitherto been destitute.
An examination of the Map will show how well these objects i
will be attained by means of this railway. At its northern tenni- '
nos, Wakefield, it will be connected with the Leeds and Manches-
ter Railway, continued to the Midland and the lines extending
from it to the north and cast, with the projected Wakefield and
Harrogate and Wakefield and Leeds lines (the latter a brands of
the Leeds and Dewsbury from Churwell), and through it with
the Leeds and Thirak, the Leeds and Bradford, and other railways,
to the northwest and Scotland. And at 'Wortley, its southern
tcriniiiirs, it will be connected with the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, the projected Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby,
and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire lines, the Sheffield and Great
Grimsby R iilway, the projected Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway,
and the various new projects from Sheffield to the northern parts of
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the west.
The quantity of coal which this railway will make directly
accessible to all parts of the kingdom u
following statements given In evidence beforeYbe estimated from the
a Committees of the
lop of Barnsley contains '2,010
House of Commons:—The t
acres of coal bed, Barughs 5,080's acres, Dodworth, 6,210 acres,
Silkston, 4,040 acres.
The quantity of coal in the Silkston main
alone is thirty-severs millions three hundred and fourteen thou-
sand tons, and the quantity likely to be raised from the entire dis-
trict through which the railway will pass, is not less than seventy.
eight millions of tons.
Pits may be sunk close by the railway, and will require mils
an engine to lift the coals perpendicularly, and pour them into the
trucks.
In addition to this, an opportunity will be afforded of tile:tine
to better account a bed of iron.atone underlying a space 0 5,08tl
acre;.
The construction of this tail way would so cheapest the tranait
of coal to York, Hull, and all intermediate towns to the north
and east, and westward to Glossop, Ashton, Manchester, Stock-
port, and other town, in Cheshire, that the owners of this valu-
able mineral would be able successfully to compete with those of
Durham and Lancashire.
The inexhaustible mineral traffic which will thus be developed
—the means which this railway will afford of improved transit be.
twetti Leeds and Sheffield, so lung a desideratum to the inhabitants
of these, the two largest towns in Yorkshire—the opening of direct
railway communication with Barnsley, Rum which that important
\
1 manufaatutiug town has hitherto been excluded—its eon.
1 . lie4ion vWI the line rciected to Harrogate, whither