The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

C OVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each.

This. Railway will connect Leicester, Birmingham, and Coventry,
by the nearest practicable route ; and was provisionally 'registered
and capital subscribed long before any other scheme was projected
for supplying railway accommodation to the district.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Proposed Distance
distance. distance. saved.
Leicester to Birmingham.... 49 37 l2
Leicester to Coventry....... 31 ........ 24 .. 7
This line will commence at or near the Wigston station
of the Midland Counties Railway, will pus by or near
the manufacturing localities of IferbOrough, Sap/tote, Earl
ShiHon, Burbage, and :Hinckley, through a district most favourable
for engineering purposes, to a junction with the Trent Valley at Nun-
eaton, thence it continues nearly due west to the Whitacre station of
the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and south-west by Bedworth
to the Coventry station of the London and Birmingham Company.
The line will communicate with the Swanaington Railway either by
means of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, er
of a separate branch to be formed by this Company ; thereby opening
the entire of the Leicestershire coal-field to the counties south-east
of Leleeetcr.

The Directors, for the last few months, having used their best
exertions for the Interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now
that the surveys, plans, and other arrangements are so far advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders With the potition and prospects of the
undertaking. . . . .

The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, which received the
favourable report of the Board of Trade, and was before Parliament
last session, forms part of the present projected plan for connecting
Leicester, Coventry, and Birmingham.
The' Directors have, by personal inspection, accompanied by their
engineer, satisfied themselves of the remarkable facilities presented
by the district for executing the greater part of the line ; and from
careful investigation the Directors have the pleasure of informing the
shareholders that this' undertaking eannot fail to prove a profitable
inveitment if supported by local traffic only, and with the certainty
that a through traffic from the eastern and western lines, combined
with the great' advantages afforded by the junction with the Trent
Valley for the transit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the United States, its importance cannot be over estimated.
From the extent of population accommodated by this railway
—from the convenience afforded to tae trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—frem the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts traversed, and from its position in regard to other important,
established, and projected railways, the Directors feel confident that
it will be amply remunerative M the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tag.eous to the public.
The capital has been subscribed, and the Parliamentary deeds have
been executed, and the preliminary survey completed.
A list of a new and highly influential local direction, and a map of
the line, will be published in a few days.
By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary pro tent.
Offices, 8, Church-cohrt, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

CENTRAL KENT COUNTY RAILWAY,
Direct line from Londol, through Maidstone to Folkestone and
Dover,

(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,500,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.)
(Deposit 21. IN. per Share, as required by the Standing Orders of
.Parliament.)
The following Noblemen and Gentlemen, principal proprietors of
estates on and near to the proposed line of railway, have autho-
rised the announcement of their names as approving of and sup-
porting the measure :
The Most Noble the Marquis Camden
The Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey
The Right lion. the Earl of Romney
Sir Edmund Kilmer, Bart., M.P. for West Kent
Charles Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P., Leeds Castle
James Stoddart Douglas, Esq.. M.P , Chibston Park, Lenham
Edward Darell, Esq., Calehill. Charing
Wm. Wriothesley Turner Baldwin, Esq., Stede-hill, liarrietsham
Charles Milner, Esq., Preston Hall, Aylesford
John Alfred Wigan, Esq., Clare House, East Mailing
Rev.' Samuel Wyatt Cobb, rector of Ightham
Captain Randolph, R.N., Great Comp, Wrotham
Richard Thomas, Esq., Eyehons House, Mollinebourne
Edward Austen Taylor, Esq., Maidstone.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
James Stoddart Douglas, Esq., M.P., Chilston Park, Lenham
George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-place, London
John Humphrey, Esq., M.P., Alderman of London
Henry Shovell Marshtun, Esq., Captain R.N., Hayle-place,
Maidstone, J.P. for Kent
Wriothesley Turner Baldwin, Esq., Stede-hill, Harrietshatu,
J.P. for Kent
Edwin Stacey; Esq., Mayor of Maidstone.
Colonel Middleton, commanding Cavalry Depot, Maidstone
John HollingwOrth, Esq., Turkey Mills, Maidstone, director of the
Kent Fire and Life Assurance Company
John Mercer, Esq., Maidstone, treasurer of the county of Kent, and
director of the Kent Fire and Life Assurance Company
Richard Thomas, Esq., liyhorne House, Holliugbourne
John Twells, Eaq., Graeechurch-street, banker
Charles Hopkinson, Esq., Regent-street, banker
George Trent's, Esq., Maidstone, and the Warren, Ightham.
Henry Godden, Eiq., Maidstone
Robert Tassel!, Esq., East Mailing, director of the Kent Fire and
Life Assurance Company
Cornelius Butler, Esq., Ingatestone, Essex, director of the Eastern.

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- CoUnties Railway.
Thoulas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, director of the Leices-
ter, and Birmingham► Railway
Charles Robert 'Colman, Esq., Irongate-wharf, St. Katherine's, di-
rector of the South Midland and South Union, Manchester, and
Potteries Railways _
William Richardion, Esq., 6, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, Do-
puty-Chainnan of the Wexford and Valenta Railway
John Knill, Esq., London Bridge-wharf, director of the Worcester
and South Walos4unction Railway
John ;Atkinson Bolger, Esq., Brighton
Thomas Nunn Gladdish, Esq., .Belvidere-road, Lambeth, and Pet-

tins Ash, Kent
William White, Esq., Cheapside, and Blackheath
Henry Militia, Esq., Ivy Mills, Maidstone
Walter Hills, Esq., Maidstone
Rev. Samuel Wyatt Cobb, Rector of Ightham, J.P. for Kent
(With power to add to their number.)
talisman commErTga.

George Dodd, Esq., 31.1.
John 'Twells, Esq.
Charles Hopkinson; Esq.
Thomas Chitty, Esq.
William White, Esq.
Capt Ala Marshal',
lIQn Godden, Esq.
John Mercer, Esq.
CoissutgriNEEltinn_
ENGINES=—John
Bazalgette,Braith Esq.
Esq
BANKER.
Messrs. Spooner, Attrrood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London
Messrs. Charles Hopkinson and Co., Regent-street
Messrs. Mercer, Randall, and Mercer, Maidstone.
soucrross.
Messrs. Wildes and Son, Maidstone
Messrs. Pearce, Phillips, and Winckworth, St.Swithin's-lane, London
SzczEraar—Graham Simson, Esq.
Scrwrayolts—_Messrs.cßoeleran
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Graham-street.ooraate-s
Temporary offices, No.

J. A: Bolger, Esq.
C. R. Colman, Esq.
William Richardson, Esq,
John Knill, Esq.
C. Better, Esq.
Robert Tassel', Esq.
George Frantic, Esq.

This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a
railway from London to Maidstone, and from thence to Ashford,
Railway to Folkestone, Dover, and
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The main line is intended to commence by a junction with the
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from thence through Otford, near Sevenoaks,
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Ightham, Town Mailing, East Mailing, and Ditton, to the town of
Maidstone; having a principal station there near Week-street, in
front of the Sessions-house and county gaol, from thence passing
through Hollingbourne, Harrietsham, Lenham, and Charing, to
Ashford.
The line to Tunbridge will branch from Ightham, and take the
course of the valley by West Peckham and Hadlow to Tunbridge,
communicating with the South-Eastern Railway. from Tunbridge to
Tunbridge Wells:.
The whole length of the lines to be constructed will be sixty-four
miles.
The country has been careflally surveyed, and, with the exception
of a tunnel through the Chalk-hill, near Otford, the works are not
of an expensive character, and the lines are free from curves or gra-
dients of all objectionable nature.
The line will be laid down so as to be adapted to the locomotive or
atmospheric principle, which ever mode of propulsion it may ulti-
mately be found most advisable to adopt.
By reference to the map of Kent it will be perceived that the lines
of the proposed railway are those indicated by the natural features
of the country ; that such railways are calculated to effect in the
most advantageous manner the great objects of direct " through"
communication between LondOn 'andiFolkestone and Dover, and be-
tween London and Tunbridge and Tunbridge Wells, taking the nearest
practicable line to Bromley, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Lenham, and
Ashford, and by a comparatively trifling expense In forming a short
branch from Weatwell, to join the present railway from Ashford to
Canterbury, at Wye, placing the.city of Canterbury, and the whole
of the district communicating with that 'city, within a few miles in
distance and a few minutes in time as near to London as could be
effected by the outlay of a vast sum in the construction of a separate
railway to Canterbury, affording Also the means of railway commU-
ideation between Canterbury and Maidstone (the county towns of
East and West Kent), and the other principal towns, and generally
throughout the county. - •
In further explanation of the merits of the proposed lines, It msy
he noticed that Maidstone, the county town of Kent, is situate in
the centre of the county, on the river Medway, contains the county
gaol, courts of justice, cavalry depot, and various other public esta-
blishments ; that the assizes and sessions are held at Maidstone, and
that the county business generally is there conducted ; that by means
of the central situation of Maidstone, and the advantages of themi-
gation of tile river, a very large wholesale business is card on
there ; that the town and immediate vicinity contain numerous and
extensive paper manufactories, mills, breweries, iron founderies, and
other works, and that the district surrounding Illaidstone comprises
the most extensive hop and fruit plantations in Kent.
The necessity for the construction of new lines of rauway for the
purpose of reducing the. distance between London and Folkestone
and D6ver, and between London and Maidstone, has been fully
admitted ; and the want of railway communication between Bromley,
Sevenoaks, Wrotham, and other principal places in the centre of the
county, not only with London, but with the city of Canterbury and
Maidstone, has been of serious injury to a very large portion of the
county. And it has been thought most advisable for the interests of
the county and the public, that a: measure of such local as
as well, as general importance should be undertathken by a Company
formed for the express purpose of carrying out e project ; uninflu-
enced by any conflicting Interests, and connected with, and as far as
practicable identified with, the county. It has also been considered
advisable that this measure should be supported entirely upon its own
merits, without attempting to engross the traffic of the northern side
of the county, of .to oppose the construction of any railways which
that portion of the county may Eonsider necessary for their seem_
modation. ,Under this impression, several gentlemen, resident in and
near Maidstone, have, with the general sanction and suPPort of the
landed proprietora interested in the measure, and of the inhabitants
of Maidstone, united with an influential body of• capitalists in the
formation of this Company, with the full intention of carrying out
the project as a measure for the benefit of the county and the public,
feeling confident that the very great traffic which this railway must
necessarily command will enable the proprietors to provide every
accommodation- the • public can require at a very moderate charge,
and will also •afford a very liberal remuneration Do the amount of
capital to be.invested in the undertaking.
The Provisional Committee have no reason to anticipate any effec-
tual opposition to a measure so obviously beneficial, and so generally
and powerfully supported- by those best qualified to form an opinion
of its merits, and most interested in carrying it into effect.
The usual power will lie taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
infereet at 4 per cent. per annum on the deposit, as well as upon all
fhture calls, from the date of the passing of the Act until the opening
of the railway, and no shareholder will be liable beyond the amount
of his subscription.
Applications for shares to be made in the usual form, to the Secre-
tary, at the Company's office, No. 1, Coleman-street-bUildings, Moor-
gate-street, London ; to the Solicitors ; or, to the folloWing Stock and
Sharebrokers :—Mr. John Wagg, 4, Shcirter's-court, Throgmorton-
street,. and Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-street,
London ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Ltverpool ; and
Messrs. R. B. Watson, Tootal, and Ban% Leeds.