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

COVENTRY, NUNEATON, B I RMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
• Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
This Railway will connect Leicester, Birtniegliam, and Coventry,
by the nearest practicable route; and was previsioually 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
d!stance. distance. saved.
Leicester to Itinningham• . ••• 49 ........ 37 .• • 12
Leicester to Coventry ••• • • • 31 ........ 24 .. •• • 7
This line will commence at or near the Wigston station
of the Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near
the manufacturing localities of Narborough, Sapeote, Earl
Shilton,•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 Swanstington Railway either by
means of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, or
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 Leicester.
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 sofar advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders with the position 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
investment 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 tr.nsit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the United States, its importance cannot be over estimated.
Front the extent of population accommodated by this railway
—from the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—from 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 to the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tageous to the public.
The capital has bean 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 snap of
the line, will be published in a few days.
By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary pro tens.
Oalces, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

CCENTRAL KENT COUNTY RAILWAY,
Direct line.froni London, through 3laldstone to Folkestone and