The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-11 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION,

CHAIRMAN—W. HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c.,
Alderman
DEPuTY-CHAIRMAN—JOSEPH BROWN, Esq.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Charles George Knox, Esq.
G. N. Wright, M.A. William Law, Esq.
William Bean, Esq. Stephen Lewis, Esq.
Richard Carpenter, Esq. William Shaw, Esq.
John Churchill, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq.
F. J. Hall, Esq. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.

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BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale —Messrs. Clement Royds and Son
Blackburn—The Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and M.R.I.A. '
ENGINEERS.
William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
SOLICITOR—Hull Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghall-street, London
LOCAL AGENTS.
J. Cressy Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire
SECRETARY—Stillingficet Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally un-
provided with railway accommodation, into the populous ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from Aifreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
-traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Dement, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Hyrield, and Duckenlield, in reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud-
dersfield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.
It is unnecessary to state here the charact& of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and itossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vicinity of Haslingdcn.
A branch will be thrown eat of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and Bacup, to Todmorden.
The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mineral produce. It will commanieat?. laterally, with several trunk
lines of railway. and will be fed by no less than five worki►g canals—
the Cromford—the Manchester and Sheffield—the Huddersfleld,--the
Manchester and Leeds—end the Liverpool and Blackburn.
To the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways
and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself In so many directions will add
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
tion in the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conclude that an ample remuneration for vested capital will be ob-
tained.
By following the course of rims, a'l h. in this Instance, fall In