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London, England, 1845-09-17 00:00:00

OvENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 840,0001., in Shams of 251. each.
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This Railway will connect Leicester, Birmingham, Mid Coventry,
by the nearest practicable route ; and was provisionally registered
and capital subscribed long before any other scheme was projected
for swing railway accommodation to the district.

COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DISTANCES.

Present Proposed Dlltance
distance. distance, saved.
teieester to Birmingham •• • • 49 • 7
Leicester to Coventry ••• • • . 31
This line wlll commence at or near the Wigston station
of the 'Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near
the manufacturing localities of NaMrough, Sapcote, Earl
Shiltou, 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, 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 so far advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders with the position and prospects of the
nd e rt a Ring .
The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, which received the
fitvourable report of the Board of Trade, and was before Parliament
List 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 ibr executing the greater part of the line ; and from
careful investigation the Directors have the pleasure of informing the
shareholders that this undertaking cannot 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 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 the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—from the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts traversed, and from its pasittOn in regard to other important,
estashed, and projected milwars, the Directors feel confident that
ft will be amply renlne:atiVe to the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tageous to the public
The capital has h subscribed,
been executedand the Parliamentary deeds have
A . end the preliminary survey completed.
list or new and highly influential local direction, and a map of
the line, ',sin be published in a few days.
Oakes By order, H. CASSIN, Secretary pro tern.
3, Church-eourt, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.

THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND
BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION,
Being an extanslea of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,900,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
How
co statrprxx.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge Housq
Valor lleresford, M.P.
William IRulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
il land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
itichard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
David
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
R. Ross, Esq., "
Ar.p.,
London and Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
ways
Manche.ster, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
air Jolla N.
~•43 Beauvoir, Bart. Chairman of the London and BIN
Mlnghtrat Extension, and Director' of the South and Midlands'
junction Railways
Sir Ar. illiam Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberd
IVeenshire, Director
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
)itr George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maasynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
VII' John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London I
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester aid Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c.
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Thenlo Farncomb, Esq, Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and Seuth and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Th"tnas Kelly, Eaq.. Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twit!), and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General Parlhy, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and &mith and Midlands' Junction Railws, &c. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal. and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major .Jeff Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
William chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
ranee Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Ifchard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of tbo Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
;Janet lon Railways
11. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary Of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K. 0.8., 31, Harley-street
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.lt.S., 9, Upper Hyde-park-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Dircfctor of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
William Singletqa, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South arid Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Folster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance
Compar.y, and Derby and Stafford, and South anallfidlands' Junc-
tion 12.ailways
Georae Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Pariah, Esq., Bank Rouse, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Petmuol Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
John Araierson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
LI, Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Simla, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
710bert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester Reuse, Broad-street, Director
of tho Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway*
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
lister Fairbairno, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York, and
Leo is Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of thq London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durnese, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright. X.A., Coed Celyn, Denbigtshire, and Lonsdale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Direct* of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Esq., Dfreet'or of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., I.reeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway .
Edmund Phillips, ?All., Avon House, Molksham, Wilts, Director of
the South am Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Themas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
etratft,rd-on-A-von, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
lo',eph Brook, pen., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbie; y, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, hnd South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Georo Henry Brook, Esq., Edguiln-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hitching, 11.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands,
Junction Railways
darnels Beech, Emq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
tionentry, and Director of the South and Midlands' JWlction Rail-
way
'William Watson Prole, Esq., Thnrloe-square, BrOtipton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands Junction Railways
Thomas Cleabury, Esq., Sackville-street
Maior Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction ItailwaYl
Frederick James Hall, Esq , Torrin
Director of the Trent IsalleY Continuation, South and Mid-
lands' Junction Railways d and Alfreton, Derby,
J. W. R. Atkinson, Esq., Dire's:tor of the Leicester and Bedford, and
South and Midlands' Jia".ction Railways
Colonel Fitch, York-te.race, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Underwr',xj, Esq., The Ball, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan J_,ife Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birraingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
mad Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A . Hill, Eaq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
entral Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
'William Sloane, Wirnpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of tho Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Rieilard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
aptain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
ltagby and Southampton Railway
:11iint Morley, Esq., Blackheath
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex asil Suffolk Railways
Thoir,is Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
1. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Req., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingritige, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and 3lidiands' Junction
Rally, ay
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wool, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingritige, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stones Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
ikingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
South Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman :square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair
Admiral J. Ayseough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
efshe South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton, and
eonth and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grata*, Eastwell House, Pottenie, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Juriction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. orbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
anti of the Legal
tion, and Pouth and Midlants' Junction R ailways, and Commercial Life Insurance Company
Wand Midlands' Jantt, Esqetion Railway'Tow Brighton, Director of the South
John Brocke Wallet...eke Esq.. Direeto: of Ihe South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Readirg Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman square
John Denns, BM., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
BAxxxxs—The Commercial Bank of London.
ComarkTino ENGINEER -Sir John airmen, LL.D., 7..R.5.
Amino ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E,
SoLicirn--,W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basingball-stret.
LOCAL AGENTS.
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appearsthat England will be divided longitudinally by four great
Lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
ts, and intersected by nnmerons lines, both transverse and oblique,
.1412114 rapid riAtl ready communisation with the intermediate (MI-
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Date

tricts, with packet stations, and with sea-port towns. The more
easterly of these, whreh is also the longest, originating, at Newcastle-
tverr-Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborotigh; and Gambridke,
ms, he Said to terminate in London, whermAll pineeis are accessible.
The second line, counting westwardt t.) Mote tortuous, and has she
a common northern tenninua ivith the preceding, by which its ad-
vantages are matevr*ll,y restricted. This line,
_descending the
wash 17..t0,, Dasslng through Rugby aad Okfertt, bWetilif6 Math;
atittUn line by fall!ng into tht %nth-Western Itaik.o* at biting-
stoke.

The third longitnclinid Vine,* the llintt westerly, is still more de-
fective In destgn than tife pietettlng; employing the steep and ati'okt, railway called the Oirthingham and Gloucester as, its t' ink, it
traverses nearly in a right line the leastpopetenS alid inOktfuidalitthik
parts of Gloucester, Berks, Wilts, and WWII and,pieptriyip'eakingl
halt ho Independent termiowl%
A large longitntitlial Section of the kingdem-dill West Midland
district—a district inviting a similar tPtileS of accommodation from
concentrated local advantrrees, still remains unprovided with a chief
trunk line ; and it is Miltemplated to remedy this deficienty by tilt
present undertakillg, or a fourth longitudinal lititl.
Adopting itirtningham as a north.erii tthitinitS d the West Mid-
land, "Itianehester, and Soutitsittptnii ilailWaYot is pitrs. ed to carry
a line through or near ti Stratford-on,AVOns Mbreton, Stow, North-
leach, Fairford. Crieklade, and SWlvldinz, where it will merge in the
South and Midlands Junction itailwa.y.
The length of the poaptSed line will be about sixty MIMS, and the
district traversed tl• it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At
Its southern terminus, Swindon, it Itetnines identical with the Sentil
and Midlands, by means of Witith it opens a most direct geffirnunica-
Bon hitherto suggested With the harbours of Weymouth, Christ-
church, Poole, and li:nthampton. At its Iffirthern terminus, Bir-
Mingham, it Onntnunieated with a :Mies of lines, projected, in pro-
gress, or winpleted, which 'Tin form the most direct line that Can
ever be Constructed between the southern ports of England and the
great manufacturing districts.
fln the alliance of lines forming the We'd Midland, Manchester,
and Southampton Railway prcdect, a combination of advantages pre-
sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of centli
gencies also. If it be dealtabre that the terminus of every railway
should be situated at EfOitiO eOmmercial or popul,All place, in this re-
spect the present projett is peculiarly fortttttate. If Government be
resolved en countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it
will be Seen, by laying a rule, On the map of England from Salisbury
to Manchester, that a Course due north and south between these
places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this
prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement
has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and
Manchester by 26 miles.
By the constructio, therefore, of little more han 0 mes of
rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct,t 6 and convenient
communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es-
tablished—a lino, also, however superior in position to others pro-
mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing
with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham
and terminating in the Seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole,
and Southampton.
In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose
to give a preference to the original shareholders of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, E.
Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:—
sq,
London—Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 9, Old Broad-street; Mr.
J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4,
Angel-court.

Liverpool—Messrs. I—Mesess. Mills and CO., and Messrs. Nelson.
Manchester—Marg. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William
Marshall.
Hull—Messrs. Collinet and Flint.
Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co.
Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Fulmer.
Birmingham—Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum
and Co.

FORM OF APP FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional CommitteeLICATION
of the West Midland, Manchester,
and Southampton Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot tome
Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (in ftill)
Trade or Profession ..... ........
Address of Referee •

A IHE' LE EDS and CARLISLE or NORTHERN
TRUNK RAILWAY of ENGLAND,
With a Branch from Otley to Bradford, being the completion of a di-
rect communication from the Midland, Southern, Eastern, and
Western Counties of England to the Northern and Scottish lines.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,000,000/., in 80,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauelerk, ham-place, Belgrave-
square, and the Riding, Northumberland
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the Cork and Water-
ford Railroad
Sir John E. de Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension Railway
Major William Beresford, M.P., Pall-mall, London
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Rail-
way, Liverpool and Leeds
John Yarde Bailer Yarde Buller, Esq., of Holme-park, Devonshire
Captain Beare, Porchester-place, Hyde-park, Deputy Chairman of
the Great Munster Railroad
B. Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
General Maritime Insurance-oftice
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull
Edward H. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, and Director of
the South Midland, and Direct Western Railways
Thomas Canny, Esq., Claremont-square, London
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
W. It. Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Chester and Holyhead
Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Southampton
Railway
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Great Western
G. Colqnhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Regent's Park, London, Chair-
man of the Asturian Mining Company, and Director of the Man-
chester and Southampton Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, London, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank of London
J. Charretie, Esq., Park Village East, Regent's Park
James Clay, Esq., Director of the Furness, and of the Birmingham,
Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railways
C. Cuninghtun, Esq.' 4, Clarges-street, Piccadilly
George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane, Director of the London, Hounslow,
and Western Railway
John Griffiths Frith, Esq., 11, Austin Friars, and Director of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Captain S. N. Fisher, Junior United Service Club, and Regent's
Park, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Direct Con-
tinuation Railroad
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and Liverpool and
and Leeds
Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., James's-place, Buckingham-gate
Henry Plumptree Gipps, Esq., Montagu-street, Russell-square, Di-
rector of the London, Oxford, and Cheltenham Railway, Sec.
Edmund Gwyer, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Hounslow Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, and Direct Western Railways
Francis Kiplin, Esq., Darlington
John Knill, Esq„ London-fridge-wharf, London, Director of the Wor-
cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, the Worcester and South Wales
Junction Railroad, &c.
Thomas Laurence, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
Edwin Cadman, Esq„ of Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
James Steele, Esq., the Mayor of Carlisle
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Reading and
Reigate Junction Railway
Captain James Macdotir,ll, the Grove, North Brixton
Joseph Madin, Req., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Michael Middleton, Eeq., barlington
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordrill House, Retford
George Pariatry, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Portsmouth, and Gosport Railway
Archibald Paull, jun., Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square, Di-
rector of the London and York Railway
William Simpson Potter, Esq, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director
of the Oxford and Witney Railway
Colonel Edward Stopeord, Director of the Asturian Mining Company
Martin Stately, 'gm. Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Dublin, Itelfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railway
William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars, Provi-
sional Committee of the Direct Western Railroad
W. Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director
of the South Midland and Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten.
ham Railways.
J. Wightman, Esq., Director of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railway
W. Anning, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor,
chester Railway
Thomas Sanger, Esti., Exeter
William Hammond Ambler, Esq., Bishop Auckland,
William Hawthorn, Esq.' Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Robert Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Thomas Peacock, Esq., Bishop Auckland, 0
Edward Railton, Esq., Broome Hall, Durham,
Samuel Sharp, Es 1., Quarry House, Harperley Park, ova 0
Durham,
Villiers Charles Villiers Stirteee, Esq., Newcastle-upon. ,0
.h
Tyne,
A A '-'
James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham
W. Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield anti Blanchester Railway, of the Huddersfield and
Sheffield Railway, and the Direct Western Railway,
Edward Crulman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Direct Western
Railway,
William Henry Home, Esq., Blackburn, Chairman of the
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, and Director of
the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Railway, and
Of the Manchester and Wigan Railway.
Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, London, Director of the P 4 Great eastern and Western, and Canterbury, and Dover *4
Railways,
The lion. Douglas Rinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, A
Whitehall, London,
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, and J.., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Ro-
timers Great Northern of France Railway, of the Man- •cs
cheater. Liverpool, and Great North of England Union g
Railway, and of the National Bank of Ireland,
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Leyton g
House, Essex, Director of the Direct London and Man-
chester Railway,
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Director of the Hull and Selby 40
Railway,
Thomas Eastham, Req., Kirkby Lonsdale, Yorkshire,
William Thomas Jackson, F.sq., Tadcaster, Director of the
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway,
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shilxlen Hall, Halifax, Director of the Ee,
East and West Yorkshire Juneticn Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, London, g
Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., London, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London
Sir William Young, Bart., London, Director of the Hon. East
India Company, and of the Leicester and Tamworth Junc-
tion Railway
J
Robert Stanfield, un., the Breck, near Hallfax,i
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway,
Christopher Linsdale Bradley, Esq., Richmond,
Yorkshire,
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire,
John Harland, Esq., Marrick, Richmond, York-
shire,
Francis Morley, Esq., Marrick Park, Richmond,
Yorkshire,

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Directors of the
Manchester,
Liverpool, and
Great North of
England Junc-
tion Railway.

(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury
Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 24, Lime-street.
The object of this Company is to shortern the present railway com-
munication between London and Edinburgh, and to open up a direct
railway communication through the populous and wealthy counties
of Yorkshire, Westmore'and, and Cumberland, between the impor-
tant towns of Leeds and Carlisle.
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great trunk lines from the west and south-east Scot-
land and the midland' counties, algal the only
remainingo Englandn through
the the midland counties to Carlisle northward, and will effect the savingg
of upwards of forty miles in the distance between the capitals of
England and Scotland.
In addition to this it presents the important consideration of a di-
rect line between the Solway Firth and Hull, the chief shipping pore in the north-east of England.
This line will traverse a manufacturing, mineral, and an agricul-
tural district, anti will afford railway Accommodation, among other
considerable towns, to those of Wakefield, Keighley, Ilunfleet, Guis-
ley, Otley, Birstall, Pudsey, Knareshorough, Skipton, .Allendale,
Appleby, Richmond, Dalton, Kirby Stephen, Hawes, Ripley, Bingioy,
Brough, Aldstone, Kirhy-Malzcard, Aysgarth, Morley, Eccleshill,
Silsden, Bedale, Masham, Brampton, Grinton, Carleton, Harrogate,
Whiteley, Bewerley, Fewston, Reath, Boioughbridge, Wetherby,
Aberford, Featherstone, Sawley, Pannale, Morton, Thorner, Hesket,
Linton, Bolton, Kirby-There, Grassington, Burnsale, Addingham,
Ikley, &c., besides very numerous manufacturing villages scattered
along the line, comprising an aggregate population (including the ter-
mini) of more than 700,000 persons.
There are no engineering difficulties, and the line will be one of
easy and inexpenalre construction, probably considerably under the
average cost per mile of railways.
It is almost needless to advert to the enormous passenger traffic
which this line must command, whilst the conveyance of its manu-
facturing, mineral, and agricultural products will ensure it a highly
remunerative revenue.
The Leeds and Carlisle or Northern Trunk Railway of England
will forma junction with the protected Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway at Leeds, AM by means of the proposed branch line from
Otley to Bradford, It wul unite with the Huddersfield,
Bradford Union Beltway
As this line will etrect.a Ravi , nc, so considerable in transit to North
Britain, it may Safely be ass
trusted to it. assumed that her Majesty's mails will be en-
Applications for Shares to be addressed Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury,to the Solicitors, S. P.
Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street; Messrs. Shand Messrs.
Keddell,
Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Taunton and Bush,‘ ewell, Stockbrokers,
Mine, King-street, moo . cester Austin-friars, Lon-
, and Messrs. wit.
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redelUk odfiell; Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
ownia phinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London
ph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
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Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
ii
Hon. Percy Evens Freke; 31, lititntvelleitigiffi
Thomas hitteilt Vaikliiii; WI 32, Grosvetior-place, London
Wit* .113hdliiiii Ekil., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
8 'ellteid And anchester • and Huddersfleld and Sheffield Railway
' ttltipanies.
Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City Of
London, Director of the Direct MatiChetter and Lthidoit and Direa
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Cbitipany
Tiloinia kailicointa Elea.; Ciriffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
tit the City tlf istaidell, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Batik, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
ininSter Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harriett.% Harwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William thiltdon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Msg., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Depaty
Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rails ay
Thomas Lawrence, Eaq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millie Coventry, Esq., Esq.,
Lombard-street
Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and
George-street, Mansion House
John Wheelton, Esq.' Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holdemess House, near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Main of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South
Essex Railways
Francis Ede, Eltl., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry
and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of
the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers'
Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George 31.'Intosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnare
Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London
Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the
Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and
Bladtwall Railway Company
W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Catchbert Woodstock, Eeq., Grove-road, North-read, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq. 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman-
square, Director of Tring, Esq.,
and Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 31, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway
Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company
Charles James Heath, Esq.' 6, London-street, Mark-lane
Captain 11, N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square
Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the
St. Katherine's Dock Company
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square
Charles Thomas Wards, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Moo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Phdpnt Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club, Treihlgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypplat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William CongreVe Rinleell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain ad
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Glllyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Batk
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barks
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Stavertoo, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev. Chas. Fres. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway Company
R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard 3fortimorc, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev: John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
1 Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks
•Union Banking Company
. William lialoornb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Tenets&
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berta
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberneld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Direotor
of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, •Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire,
Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, M.D., Salford
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the "Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field. and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and
Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wiabeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq. Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
" Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
Railway Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Direeter of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq. Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway.
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York
and East Lincolnshire Railways
John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool
David Price, Esq., Manchester
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington
Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire
Major Wonturn, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, 3facelesfield, Director of the
South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Jnactien
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com-
missioner
John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex
William John M.Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray WilsonlrEsq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefevre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton
Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Millbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringhant R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
(With power to add to their number). '
Botmas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodriek, and Beil, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. la )carting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
Sec/malty—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—Charles J. Whalley, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED.
At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodney
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Hayford, and Staunton
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole
At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance
At Falmouth
The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between
London and the Land's End.
In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it., position at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,000!. to 3,000,000/. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports
were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased.
The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca-
pital, It was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set 'on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by.
railway.
The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the
present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important outport--" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this--that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company havihg amalga-
mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded
by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct
line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford-
ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company.
The Direct Western availing Itself of the Great NVestere Railway
so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger-
ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis-
trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by
Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells
(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater),
Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than
any existing or projected railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
distance from London to Falmouth, a.saving of about ninety miles.
With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is
needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles that it will traverse rah and populous agrictilbaral

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