The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

THE MIDLAND, BARNSLEY, SHEFFIELD,
DEWSBURY, LEEDS, AND BRADFORD RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 101. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir William Lowthrop, Ilull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Managing
Director of the Liverpool aid Leeds Direct, Director of the Direct
Western, J.P. for the East Riding, and Borough of Hull
John Broadhurst Tootal, Esq., the Cliffe, Wakefield
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holdeniess-house, near Hull, De-
puty Lieutenant, and J.P. for the East Riding, and for the Bo-
rough of Hull, Provisional Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, &c.
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Provisional Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., Hull, Provisional liirector of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
George Wilson Addison, Esq., Bradford, Provisional Director of the
West Yorkshire, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Rail-
ways, &c. &c.
George Addison, jun., Esq., Provisional Director of the Leeds Direct
Railway
J. E. Sichil, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Provisional Director of the
Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and the Leeds, York, and Midland
Railways
John Dougell, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield
Edmund Eastwood, Esq., dyer, Ilaslicliffe, near Huddersfield
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, near Huddersfield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Allison, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Dransfield, Esq., Mold Green, Huddersfield, Provisional pi-
rector of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction; and
the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railways
Albert Pilling, Esq., merchant, Huddersfield
Joseph Norton, Esq., merchant, &c., Clayton West, near Hudders-
field, Provisional Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate ; Hud-
dersfield, Halifax, and Bradford; Bristol and Dover; Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction; and Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Abraham Eastwood, Esq., Rashcliffe House, Huddersfield, Auditor
and one of the Executive Committee of the Huddersfield and Shef-
field Junction Railway Company
John Richardson, Esq., Harrogate, Provisional Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate ; and the East and West Yorkshire Rail-
ways, &c.
George Fearnley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Henry Hemingway, sen., Esq., M.D., Dewsbury
Henry Hemingway, Jan., Esq., M.D., Dewsbury
Paul Fletcher, Esq., Dewsbury
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Dewsbury
George Hall, Esq., merchant, Aldam's-houso, Dewsbury
Thomas Newsome, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
Mark Hirst, Esq., manufacturer, Dewsbury
J. J. Mallinson, Esq., Dewsbury
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Lancaster, Provisional Director of
the Manchester and Wigan, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds,
York, and Midland Junction Railways
William Mann, Esq. Speu Mills, Cieckheaton, Provisional Director
of the Midland Lid Thirsk Railway; the Leeds, York, and Mid-
land Junction ; and the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railways
James Smith, Esq., M.D., Ossett
William Wood Wiseman, Esq., M.D., Ossett
George Mitchell, manufacturer, Ossett
Thomas Mitchell, Esq., manufacturer, Ossett
Francis Sykes, Esq., Liversedge, near Dewsbury, Provisional Direc-
tor of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, aid the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
John Mitchell, senior, Esq., Ossett
Abraham Burnley, Esq., merchant, Batley, late Provisional Director
of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway
Joseph Jubb, senior, Esq., merchant, Batley
George Sheard, Esq., merchant, Batley, late Provisional Director of
the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway
Joseph Jubb, junior, Esq., manufacturer, Batley
Charles Day, Esq., Hirst house, Batley
Johnßurnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley, ProvisionalDlrector Of the
Midland and Thirsk Railway
Jacob Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley, and Manchester
• Samuel Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley
Benjamin Senior, Esq., merchant, Batley, Provisional Director of
the West Riding Junction, and Midland and Thirsk Railways
Joseph. Rowley, Esq., worsted spinner, Ossett-cum-Gawthorp, near
Dewsbury
William Rowley, Esq., Ossett
Thomas Hirst, Esq., Batley
James Geo. Atkinson, Esq., M.D., Wakefield, Provisional Director
of the Stockton, Northallerton, and Leeds Railway
Rev. G. A. Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway
Frederick Stokes, Esq., Wakefield
Foster Shaw, Esq. merchant, Huddersfield
Lewis Alexander Shepherd, Esq., ironfounder, Dewsbury
William Cardwell, Esq., ironfounder, Dewsbury
Mark Day. Esq. manufacturer, Batley Carr
vuuu isitter, .inornnui
Henry James Smith, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
James Hemingway, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
George Blakeley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Dewsbury
Robert Blakeley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Dewsbury
(With power to add to their number).
N.B. The names of other Provisional Directors will be added
from Barnsley and Sheffield, &c., &c.

BANKERS.
The Huddersfield Banking Company, Dewsbury and Huddersfield.
The West-Ridmg Union Banking Company, Dewsbury, 'Judders-
- • field,- and Wakefield.
The Leeds and West-Riding Banking Company, Leeds and Bradford.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, London.
Messrs. Masterman, and Co. London.
ENGINEER—Henry Emanual Scott, Esq.

SOLICITORS.
Charles Robert Scholes, Dewsbury
Henry Brodribb, 6, Child's-place, Temple, London.
LOCAL AGENT—W. C. 31ence,tsq., solicitor, Barnsley.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MC(SSn. dlow and
,Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, Weistminster.

The object of this line is to make a short and direct communication
between the populous manufacturing and iron and coal districts of
Bradford, Cleckheaton, Heckmondwikc, Batley, Dewsbury, Barns-
ley, and Sheffield, with the wool and agricultural districts of Lei-
cestershire, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Cialusborough, Lincoln, &c., and
the port of Boston.

The line will form a junction with the West Yorkshire, the Leeds
and Dewsbury, and the Manchester and Leeds Railways, at or
near Dewsbury; and thence proceed, by Dorton to. Barnsley, and
Wombwell, to or near to Wath-uponi,Dearne, near Swinton ; where
it will join the North Midland Railway, and also meet the proposed.
line to Doncaster, Bawtry, Gainsborottgh, and Lincoln ; and form a
communication by the existing lines with the port of Boston and the
south ; and by the projected Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway ;
it will also form a direet line to Hull, and by the Leeds and Thirsk
Railway, a direct line to the nortk.
The line will also be continued from Barnsley by Tankersley and
.Chapeltown to Sheffield.
A .branch will run to the various Ironworks and Colliery Rail-
ways, near Wentworth ; and another branch will run to the Silk-
stone Colliery Railways.
A • dfrect line of communication will thus be formed between the
important manufacturing places of Bradford, Bierley, Cleckheaton,
,Gomersall, Heckmondwike, Livorsedge, Batley, Dewsbnry, Ossett,
Thornhill, Darton, Barnsley, Ardsley, and Wombwell, to Wath-
upon-Dea rne, Doicaster, Lincolnshire, the port of Boston, and the
south, and also to Sheffield; affording the best possible accommoda-
tion to the rich iron and coal districts of Silkstone, ,Worsborongh,
Tankersley, Chapeltown, and Sheffiell ; whilst the wools and raw
materials used in the manufactures at Bradford, Pudsey, Earlsheaton,
Cleckheaton, Batley, Heckmondwike, Dewsbury, and Barnsley, as
well as corn and cattle, will be received by the shortest and most di-
rect *line of transit from Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire,
and the southern parts which supply these commodities, in exchange
for the manufactures, coals, and minerals of those districts.

It must be evident to every one, on looking at the map, that this
line is imperatively called for, as up to this period the only rail-
way communication for the supply of wool and other goods, and the
conveyance of passengers to Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Batley,
Cleeklicaton, Bradford, and the intermediate places (each containing
a numerous manufacturing population), has been the North Midland
line by Noinnanton—a very circuitous route, as appears by the fol-
lowing statement of distances of those places :
Relative distances from Bradford and Dewsbury to Bamsley and
Sheffield, by the present route, and the proposed line :

• Mlles
From Bradford to Barnsley by Brighottse, and thenco by
the Lee& and Manchester line, about • . .. .. ..
By the prOposed line from Rradford, via Cleckheaton and
Dewsbury, to Barnsley ..

• • 20

Being a saving of •• • • • • ..
From Dewsbury, Batley, &e., by the present route t• Barnsley
about • • •• •• .. .. .. .. ••
By the proposed line

Being a saving on 23 miles of no less than • • .. .. 12
The present distance to Sheffield from Bradford is about 61 miles;
by the proposed line it will be 31,—0r a saving of 20 miles.
From Dewsbury by the present route Sheffield is distant 40 miles ;
by the proposed line it will be 21,—0r a saving of 19 miles.
The same observations, as to saving of distanee, apply to London
and all intermediate Places; and it is important to observe that either
by the present North Midland line, or by the projected London and
York Railway, this proposed line will be the shortest and most direct
route from Bradford, Dewsbury, &c., to London.

It may also be noticed, that -6om Swinton to Leeds by this project
and the Leeds and Dewsbury line, the distance Is much less than by
•
way of If ormanton.

The following table, taken from the Parliamentary Census of 1841,
will give some idea of the populous Districts through which the line
passes :

POPULATION OF PLACEE (IN 1841), ON THE LINE OF ROAD.

Bradford parish .. •• 105,257Earlsheaton Soothill ...• 4,458
Bradford .............. 34,560 Ossett . . 6,078
M erle.), .............. • . 9,512 'Thornhill
Thohill parish •• •• 7,301

Pudsey • • • •• • • 10,002, Darton parish •• ••• • • • 3,583
Cleekheaton 4,299 Silkstone pazlsh •• •• • • 18,559

-
Gemersall . ..... ........ B,o3o'Barnsley ........ •• •• 12,310
Heekmondwlko •• .. •• .. 3,537 Ardsley .... .
Liversedge ..-...• • ..... 4,988 Wombwell •
Batley ..........••• .. •. 7,076 Wath-upon-Dearne pa-
Dewsbury parish ...... 23,806, risk ..
14ewsbury .. ...... .... 10,600. Sheffield ...:•• •• .. •• •• 68,126

The traffic through this district is immense,

A carotid survey of the line and branches has been made by the
engineer, and the scheme will be submitted t• Parliament at the ap-
proaching session.
Power is reserved to continue the line northward to Bradford, if
the Company should think tit.
Provisions will be inserted in the Act of Parliament to allow inte-
rest at 4 per cent. on the deposits and calls, from the passing of the
Act, until the opening of the railway; and for limiting the share-
holders' liability to the amount of their subscriptions.
Power will also be applied fez In the Act (sad In the meantime is
reserved to the Managing Committee), to abandon or alter any part of
the line, and to make branches ; and also to enter into any arrange-
ments with any other company or companies.
A liberal portion of the shares will he reserved for the landowners
and others having local interests; and such companies as this line
may form junctions with, or with whom this Company may be son-
neeted:' , .

Applications ,for shares (II the form given below), and for pro-
spectuses, may be made to the Solicitors, ar.d also to Mr. Charles
Dyson, Sharebroker, Boar-lane, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilson and Hells-
well, Sbarebrokers, Hutidersilehl ; and Mr. John BrOoke, Broker,
Dewsbury.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To.the Provisional Committee of the Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield,
Dewsbury, Leeds, and Bradford Railway.,
Gentleinen,—l request you to allot me ' shares of 201. each
in the above Company ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or
any lam number, and to pay the deposit of; 21..25. per share thereon,
and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree.
meat when required.
Dated this day of . 1845.
Name in full ••.. .•
- - • Occupation •.. ••• .. •
Place of Business • • .. . • • • • •
- . , Place of Residence -. • • • • • • • • .......,, ..
Name of Referee in fu11.... • ............
Occupation ....
Place of BusineSs..... ..... •• . .
Place of Madam: I, k.J. 1121.1, ii •••±1
. .
•