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THE DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE,
and WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. •
The Right Honourable the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers,
Staffordshire
Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourno-street,
Hyde Park-gardens
Sir George William Prescott, Bart , of Theobalds
Allen, Mr. Sergeant, Serjeant's-inn, London
Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway
Askey, John, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Blackburn, Rev. F. T., M.A., Cannock
Biaden and Nash, Messrs., Itugeley
Blood, John Thaynes, Esq., High Sheriff of Lichfield
Blurton, Robert, Esq., Banker, Smallwood Manor, near Uttoxeter
Croft, Major Jr. T., Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman of the
Chester and Manchester Railway
Crossley, John, Esq., Uttoxeter
Charles, Thomas, Esq., Pellsall-hall, Pellsall
Cartwright, Talbot, Esq., Wolverhampton
Cheshire, T., Esq., Rugeley
Crockett, T., Esq., Cannock.
Collis, Rev. W. 8., M.A., Cannock
Dimmock and Thompson, Messrs., Ullston, Staffordshire
Dixon, John, Esq., Ironworks, Rough Hills, near Wolverhampton
Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter
Fellowes, Isaac, Esq., Wolverhampton
Gilpin, Messrs., Wedges Mills, Cannock
Green, Charles, Esq., Darlaston
Greenmail, J., Esq., Ruzeley
Griffiths, William, Esq., Park-house, Wellington
Gutch, John Matthew, Esq., Banker, Worcester
Hadfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley
Haines, Samuel, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birmingham
Railway, Chad House, Edgbaston
Harwood, William, Esq.
Holford, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's London
and Manchester Railway
Johnson, D. T., Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail-
way, Aldermary-churchyard •
Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Director of Remington's London
_ _ _ _

and Manchester Railway, Moorgate, London
Jones, Rev. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire
Jenkins, George, Esq., Sedgley
Keene, John Joseph, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland,

St. John's-wood, Regent's-park
King, William, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assnrance,

Waterloo-place
Knight, Edward, Esq., 111. D., Stafford
Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield Hall, Uttoxeter _
Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle
Lassater, James, Esq., Uttoxeter
Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter
Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn

Commission
Lee, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Lees, David, Esq., Wednesbury
Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle
Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and
Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place
M`Nfahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton
Manors, John, Esq., Rageley
Millar, D. James, Esq.,-Rugeley •
Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire
Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner
Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire
Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttometer
Tallowy, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham
and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London
Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoaeter
Parker, William, Lysways, Lichfield
Riley, W. P., Esq., 131Iston, and Pendeford House, Wolverhampton
Round, Benjamin, Esq., Wednesbury
•
Sant Edward, Esq., Cannock
Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire ..
Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire
Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore Hall, Ashbourn
Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire
Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean and

Dove Valley Railway
Smyth, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex
Spires, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London
Tyler, Gorge, Esq., Holloway-place, London
Waller, Major James, K.H., 15, St. James's-square, Director of the

Chester and Manchester Railway
Weston, Thonias, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire
Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter
Wood, John, Esq, Wednesbury
Wood, William, Esq., Chetwyd House, Newport
Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter

BARBERA.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clements's-lane, London
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Uttoxeter
The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Ashbourne
The National Provincial Bauk of England, Rugoley
The National Provincial Bank of England, Lichfield
SOLICITORS.
John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Arnishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley
Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton
Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley
Egginton, A , Esq., Lichfield
James J. Green, Esq., Walsall
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie
G. Remington, Esq., C.E.

The line of Railway proposed between Uttoxeter and Dudley has
been undertaken at the suggestion of several influential parties, as
combining (without being a competing line with any railway at pre-
sent made) all the advantages of several projected lines, with addi-
tions of no ordinary value. The town of Uttoxeter, in the Dove Val-
ley, is itself the centre of a rich agricultural district, supplying al-
ready the markets of Dudley, Tipton, Walsall, Bilston, and Wednes-
bury, with cheese, cattle, and agricultural produce, but by a very
expensive and dilatory mode of transit. All the proposed lines
communicating with Manchester, London, and the Potteries,
must necessarily pass to or near Uttoxeter. Already the Chur-
net Valley, Derby and Stafford, Derby and Crewe, Tean,
and Dove Valley, North Staffordshire, Manchester Direct Inde-
pendent, Leicester and Ashby lines of railway, project a station at
Uttoxeter. Assuming either of these former, or some equivalent, to
pass this will be the best route from Manchester, Macclesfield, the
Potteries, Hull, Sheffield, and the north to the mineral districts of
South Staffordshire, and to Kidderminster, Worcester, and South
Wales. By the Leicester and Ashby line, which will communicate
by its branch to Uttoxeter, traffic of great part of the east of
England will be available for Staffordshire and the west.
Commencing at Uttoxeter, the line will be carried over
favourable ground to Abbott's Bromley, thence to Rugeley, where
it will fall into the Trent Valley Railway Station, by Channock
Chase, along the Rising Brok Valley, to Hednesford, and thence by
Walsall across the Grand Junction Railway, through Wednesbury
and the mineral districts of South Staffordshire to Dudley ; there it
will join all those railways that will connect the Staffordshire coal-
field with Worcester, Ludlow, and Porthdynllaen on the south-west,
Aberystwith, Merthyr Tydvil, Swansea, Hereford, on the west and
south. In fact,,it will unite by the nearest route the east and west
of England.
The line will fall into and cross the Trent Valley, Midlands, and
Grand Junction Railway at Walsall, and from Cannock afford direct
communication with Wolverhampton (where it will run into the
broad gauge railway) from Leeds, and Huddersfield, and the north
and east of England.
The population on the lino exceeds 300,000, and the ordinary traffic
arising from internal sources alone is sufficient to maintain the rail-
way, and afford more than ample remuneration to the shareholders.

As a junction line (with the present immensely increasing public
favour to railway travelling) It is scarcely possible to compute the
amount of passenger traffic, but it must necessarily be very great.
Since this line was registered, a company has been formed for ex-
tending it by a junction at Uttoxeter, to Huddersfield, Leeds, and
Sheffield, by way of Ashbourn, and by this means immense mines of
lead, iron, stone, and coal of Derbyshire, the products of the paint
manufactories and barytes works' at Ashbourne, Cromford, &c., will
be opened, and with those already in work, find a ready transit to
Walsall and Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton. The in-
crease of passengers, attracted by ready means of conveyance to the
romantic country of Dovedale, and the High Peak, will be necessarily
very great.

The copper, ore, lime, and coal, abounding in the Caldon and the
Ribden mines, will be transmitted by this line to the manufacturing
districts of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and South Wales, and it will
afford a direct communication between Leeds, iluddersflehl, and
Southampton, and it will also be the nearest route to Southampton
from Manchester, via Uttoxeter, by the London and Manchester
Direct Independent Line, or whatever railway should ultimately
pass between Manchester and London, as forming the shortest route
to the metropolis, a line which, it is now admitted on all hands, must
be carried.

This Company reserves the right to raise additional capital to com-
plete the line from Dudley to or near the Droitwich station, on the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. •
Applications for shares and every information to be made to
William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Utioxeter ; and John Owens,
Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London ; and of the following share-
brokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles,
Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs.
Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron and Com-
pany, Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard
E. Hine, Macclesfield; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds; Messrs. Well-
beloved and. Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ;
Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn ; Mr. George Clark, Brad-
ford ; Mr. William :Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronheim,
Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and
Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Erle, York ; Mr. E. H.
Armitage, Wakefield; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr.
Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs. Tate and Nash,
Bristol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr.
Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ;
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and
Sons, Manchester; Messrs. A. 13irchall and Co., Manchester;
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. 11. Collis, Bir-
mingham ; Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard
and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr.
Nicolson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow;
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin.