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London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.

ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION
RAILWAY
(Being tz.n Extension of the Dublin and Galway Railway).
Flits'', DIVISION—ATHLONE TO ROSCO3IIION.
Capital i'oo,ooo/., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.
No shareholder to be beyond the amount of his Shares.
MANAGING COMMITTEE.
Fitzstephen French, Esq. M.P., Chairman
Right llon. Lord De Freyne
William Ormsby Gore, Esq. M.P.
The Dean of Elphin
Hugh Barten, Esq. Straiten, county Kildare
Sir Joseph Burke, Bart. Fairfield
John Vance, Esq. Merrion-square, Dublin
Rt;bert Henry French, Esq. Rutland-square, Dublin
Ham;lton Gorges, Esq. Leeson-street
Kaunsell, Esq. Landsend, county Dublin
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Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park,
Patrick Alexander Rey;:oldst

and 16, Comilla
John Campbell, Esq. Danest;,:,ld,
county Dublin L Directors of the Irish Great
Daniel H. Ferrall, Esq. Beeckwood t Western, Dublin to Galway
H. Pennefather Lloyd, Esq. Her- j
be rt-place, Dublin,
ENGINEER-Sir John Macneill, T.L.D. F.R.S.
BANKERS.
The London Joint Stock Bank, Princess-street, London
Messrs. Barred and Co. Liverpool
The Bank of Ireland, and the National Bank of Ireland, and their
Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Barrington, Son and Co., 10, Ely-place, Dublin
Mr. Peter M'Keogh, 5, Belvidere-place, Dublin
Messrs. •Fladgate, Young, and Jackson 12, Essex-street, Strand,
London.

PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
William Bryden, Esq. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster.
SECRETARY—Robert Plunkett, 48, Dame-street, imblin.
,oignoN AGENT—James Bryden, Esq. 19, Moorgate-street, London

The many and important commercial advantages presented by a
junction line of railway between the north and south of Ireland, give
the promoters of the projected line from Athlone to Sligo, with a
branch to Ballina, the most unqualified confidence in its success.
The proposed line, as regards both public interest and private
speculation, will very much surpass any other that has been pro-
jected from Sligo to Dublin—first uniting with the Dublin and Galway
at Athlone, it will pass in a direct line to Sligo, having a branch to
Belittle, thereby affording railway communication to the great fair and
market towns in the counties of Roscomfiion, Mayo, and Sligo,afid ter-
minating at the important seaport and garrison town of Sligo, where
it will also unite with the line to Enniskillen, and thus form a junc-
tion between the northern, southern, and western lines, opening a
continuous and the most direct railway communication between
the great commercial and manufacturing towns of the pro-
vince of Ulster, and the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and
Kilkenny, and with Galway, and the other large towns and seaports
In the south-east and west of Ireland, and also giving to the coun-
ties of Sligo, Mayo, and Roscommon, a line of railway to the me-
t:opolis.

The Athlone and Sligo Junction will receive the full support of the
Directors of the Great Southern and Western, and the Dublin and
Galway Railway Companies. Forty miles of the Gr.mt Southern
and Western Railway from Dublin to Portarlington axe nearly com-
pleted, and will be opened to the public in June next.
At this advanced period of the year the difficulty of complying
strictly with the standing orders of Parliament renders it advisable to
undertake, in the first instance, but one division of the line, viz., that
from Athlone to Roscommon, being a distance of twenty English
miles; for which purpose a capital of no more than 200,000/. will be
required.

The line from Athlone to Sligo is but seventytwo miles in length.
It will pass through or near the towns of Knockcroghery (at which
the second largest sheep fair in Ireland is held), Atlileague, Mount
Talbot, Rathgar, Roscommon (one of the largest inland markets in
Ireland), Lanesborough, Elphin, Croghan (celebrated fair town),
Frenchpark, Boyle. Castlerea, 13allaghtulereen, Ballymote, Tubber-
cony, Colooney, Ballisodare, to Sligo. The preliminary surveys have
been made, and the engineer, Sir John Macneill, reports very fa-
vourably upon the gradients and facilities of construction.
Advantages so important as those referred to cannot fail of giving
the greatest encouragement to a line of railway which must, from
passenger-traffic alone, return an ample per centage on the outlay of
capital.
It should also be borne in mind that the proposed junction line
will not only give to the north of Ireland direct and immediate rail-
way communication with the south, east, and west, but will like-
wise open to the great manufacturing towns of Scotland similar ac-
commodation.

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Railways having the advantage of foreign traffic as an auxiliary,
are always the most profitable—no projected line could be snore op-
portunely circumstanced in that respect than the proposed Grand
Junction, forming, as it will, a link between the northern and
southern railways, it must, independently of local resources, have a
constant stream of passenger-traffic from the parent lines at either
end, and eventually be found one of the most profitable, as well as
the most useful, undertakings in Ireland.
Few lines of railway are possessed of greater local advantages.
Sligo, a considerable, and rising seaport town on the N. W. coast
at the one extreme, supplies the whole of the interior, as far as
Athlone, with the _ products of the Western World. Its fisheries
and that of the neighbouring coast are among the best in Ireland.
The salmon fishery at Ballina, and the deep sea-fishing of Sligo
and Inver Bays would alone yield considerable revenue. Athlone,
at the other terminus, is a garrison-town of the greatest import-
ance, in the very centre of Ireland, from whence it must be an ob-
ject to have railway communication with the garrisons of Boyle
and Sligo ; there cannot therefore be a doubt of the line obtaining
the entire support of the Government.
Roscommon is one of the most fertile counties in Ireland ; it
abounds in agricultural and mineral produce, and has a'population of
253,591 inhabitants, Its great fairs are well known—their staple,
the finest horses, horned cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the United King-
dom, will be conveyed by this line to the Dublin and E,glish
markets ; and while the farmer will thus have a ready and cheap
means of transport for his stock to the best markets, he will, in
like manner, be enabled to supply himself with young stock from the
lairs of the south, east, and west. Large quantities of bacon are
cured annually in the towns of Roscommon, Castlerea, Boyle, &c.,
and it only requires the advantage of railway communication to
develop the many industrial resources of the county.
Application for shares to be made .to the secretary, 48, Dame-
street, Dublin ; and Messrs. Laurence, Cazenove and Pearce, Auction
Mart, London.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
ATHLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION RAILWAY.
First Division—Athlone to Roscommon.
Capital, 200,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
First Deposit, 2/. per Share.
No shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his shares.
in this
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares
undertaking ; and I agree to take the same, or such of them as may be
allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. per sare thereon, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribersh' Agreement when
required.
Dated this day of
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1845.

To Ca Pror:sicnal Coi=itto,
45, Dame-street, Dublin.