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London, England, 1845-09-19 00:00:00

D IRE CT WE-STERN RAILWAY
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Ervin London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and
Bridgewater respectively.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
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The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. Jarnes's-street
Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts
Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall -
Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street
Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Earl., 32, Grovienor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
„ London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct
Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Tooley-street, Alderman
CFiatrynoflnLobn dEonsq,"anGdrifil"l:eschloVrhoarff;the .London and theThoofm a 5 c°
Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington; and-Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the
City of London
Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North-
ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the
South Midland Railway
Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mihes Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy
Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and
South Midland Railways • -
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Biansfwick-square, -London, Deputy
Chairman of the Trea Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe _ _
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London
Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L , Philips, Esq., Corriwall•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 Joiland,- Esq., Homoroosa
.House,
near Hull,
Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Eeq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the
Devon and Cornwall Banking Company •
Charles Downes, Esq.; Warwick-atreet, 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, Esq., 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, Lomba-street, and West
Heath House, Erlth, Kent,. Director of the Luth 'Staffordshire
Railway
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-
street, London
H. G-Atkinson, Esq.,-I/Pner Gloucester-place, Regent's Park
George M'lntosh, Esq.' 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square
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, •Chairraan of tke Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J,,G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director pf the
Licerised Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and
Blackwell Railway Company _
IV. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon
Cuthbert Woodstock, -Esq., Grove-road, North Bristol(
Robert Andrew Ridden,' Esq:, 23, Bryanstethe-street, Portman-
square, Director of Tting; 'Reading,- Old Basignstoke, the Exe-
ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension
Railways
Georg Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant
Tithe Commissioner
William,Hagan,.Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breyn,lon, 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 E. 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-plice, BelgraW-Square .
Charles Thomas Warlle, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles-
street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-
place, London
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union
Club; Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way Company
Safnnel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell; Esq.,. Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-
rebt6t of the Warwickshire and London Railway '
Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John,William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d
Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-
square,'London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-building-s, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Balls
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
. _
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq,, Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County
Rev. Chas. Frm. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkertan, near Batk
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 if the Buckinghara-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton
Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton,'DEVOß
Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton,
Colonel Henry Dundee CaMpbell, forth End House, Portsmouth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradnlnch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. llalconab, Esq., Ctxillon, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berke
Union Banking Company • •
William Holcomb, Esq., -Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomai Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
.Joosheu
npMinfioildit,CEosttlq:,LEoisqoe..,toCrla, Director of goath Midland and rendon-sqUare, Leamington, Direator
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
anchester 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"
dolseadnind, 24 Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
vepighan N,
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
poolH
lford Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
John ,
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the CHudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford
and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
Union Railway.
Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
Esq Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
John Robson,
Cornelius Randall, Esq., heater Manc,Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq.,
Midland Railway Companies
Manchester
Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., ester, Director of the Dudley and
Railway Company
Iron Bridge
C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and
Isaac Holmes, Esq.,
Manchester
Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
Liverpool
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
Esq., Ma LifeSheffield,Director of the Sheffield,
Machin Bank,
Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
hefhield Railway
Huddersfield and S
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast
joithnothVearhrda'm, and Chesterfield

Railway Company
Captain I3owker, R. Devonport
Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield,
Director of the East and West
Ear-
rowgate Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
joohfnEFnacl acnedt
Fawcett
R,
Ea isl
(vir. a? Company
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 Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, 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 Junction
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, titer-chant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-squaro, Assistant Tithe Corn-

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missioner • •
John Norton, Esq., Moat House,93rentwood, Essex
William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, grove, North Brixton, Surrey
WT. J. Lefceuhvaare. Harrison,,Eq,AldEennsq.a,nyaonrdk-Mtearrgiaseetr,atßeegofens Park
Southamptontpa
Thomas
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
• Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringham, 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).
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LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADIr APfOINTED.
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At Tiverton
At Truro
At Penzance
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The object of this line Is to effect a direct oonimunication between
point of view such a line is
London and the Land's End.
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has
tAhtln F ale
vantages
e advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its position at the
Western extremity of the kingdom, would 'undoubtedly long since
have been the *4With • the advantage of
P—ncipal port on that coast.
toe, before the opening of the Great Western
po-
sitionlantataispineonsaibtliei.iighWlth
as a Packet Station. Southa pton, with far less natural ad-
per annum. At Eris-
, has, since the opening ofmthe South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,000/. to 3,000,000/.
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having
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
Exeter, it has been in contemplation, to extend that line to Fal-
mouth byalready reached
way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set 'Cov 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 Brid water Company having 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 Western 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
13radford flireet 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 traireised to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
ninety miles.
and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
disivetsa'nce from London to Falmouth, a saving of about
With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is
Direct Wes-
terncientto justify the construction of this portion of the
on o Tiverton ,
needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic sulli-
: that it will shorten the distance from London
t
about 32 mikes thit4 it will traverse rich and PoPulQuO agrictilt4r4