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tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, &c., and London. proves at once
that the exiting railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies
of the mass of population to whom this line will be available.

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Tile population who re-ide upon or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, and between
the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost
wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and who have, at
the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike
road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and
other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of
the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line
must become to them particularly useful and convenient.

Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway,
when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves
of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other
pub (vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer-
tained to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal number (at least) proceed
by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although
no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that
they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con-
veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full pro-
portion to the receipt from passengers.
Experience has ffilly proved, that on however liberal a scale the
probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has
been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion,
vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, in this
instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com-
munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con-
veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will
open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the
admired districts of Brixton and .itreatham, the long-favoured and
much-frequented Beulah and Norwood will be placed within easy
access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight
to the visitor and resident of the metropolis.
There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must
become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, and will be generally supported by local in-
fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will
be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers
that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia-
ment, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied
for In the Bill to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls
from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for ffirther information, prospectuses, and shares (in
he form annexed), may be addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre-
tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street ; or
to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. L. and M. B‘..yd, Princes-
street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Greystone
and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham; Yews. Watson and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Br tcly and
Stainforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Sand-
ford, Exeter; Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh; Mr. J. W. Carr, Col-
chester.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

Te the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon

Railway,

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above railway, upon which or noon any less number that
may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to pay the deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement
when required to do so.

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THE DIRECT WEST END and CROYDON
RAILWAY.—The Provisional Committee give notice that
no applieation for Shares in this Company can be received after the
20th instant. By order.

J. L. COTTON, Secretary.
34, Cracechurch-street, Oct. 10th, 1845.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUN,JEMENT.
HALIFAX AND HULL DIRECT, AND
HULL, GOOLE, GRIMSBY, AND YORK AND NORTH
MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION (at or near Methley) RAILWAY,
via, Hipperholme, Lightclifie, Cleckheaton, Mills-bridge, Gomersal,
Birstal, Batley, Hanging Heaton, Ardsleys, Lofthouse, Stanley to
Methley, with a branch to Wakefield.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,0001. in 30,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Orders of

Parliament.

The object of this railway is to provide for the above-named
densely populated and rapidly improving mint& cturing towns and
villages, a dirict and convenient outlet towards York. Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and the east.

In conjunction with the West Riding Union, Liverpool and Leeds,
and other projected railways passing through or near to Halifax, the
undertaking. now proposed will form one of the most direct railway
commnnications, as well between the ports of Liverpool and Hull, as
between the great manufacturing districts of the west, and the agri-
cultur ai districts of the East.

The population residing upon and along the proposed line between
Halifax and Methley exceeds 200,000 persons, who are chiefly engaged
in manufacturing and mining industry - to such a community a rail-
way passing immediately through it, giving a nearer and more con-
venient access to the Irish Channel and the Getman Ocean and the
intermediate places, is an object of importance, and promises, when
accomplished, to confer great advantages on the inhabitants, and to
secure to the shareholders an ample return for the capital invested.
By this project the valuable coal fields of Wike, Batley, foothill,
East and West Ardsley, Loichouso, and Stanley (containing
the well known " Bowling and Low Moor," " High Moor,"
and Stanley Main," beds which re now wrought to a son-
siderable extent), will be furnished, for the first time, with
the means of cheap and convenient railway transit toHalifax
and other large towns westward, and to York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby, and various other places eastward. The celebrated
flagstone quarries of Northowram and Southowram, which annually
export from Goole, Selby, and Hull, to the stem coast of England
and to the Continent, large quantities of fll, paving stones, and
slates, will supply this line of railway with a considerable amount of
traffic.

By means of the Leeds tend Dewsbury Railway, now in course of
construction (which the proposed line will inters( et at Batley), the
inhabitants of the clothing districts previously mentioned will hay
the readiest access to the Leeds markets and to the country north
of Leeds.

By a junction at Cleckheaton with the Bradford and Dewsbury
branch of the West Riding Union Railway the present scheme will
give to Halifax and its populous neighbourhood the shortest railway
communication with Dewsbury, and in connexion with other pro-
posed lines with Barnsley, &c.
The same junction at Cleckheaton will give to Bradford and the
important iron works at Wibsey, and Low Moor, the nearest route to
Selby, Hull, and the east ; consequently this railway company may
fairly lay claim to carry a large portion of the raw material and ma-
nufactured production% need and produced in that densely-peopled
portion of Yorkshire

Fron a point on the main line at or near Soothill, it is intended to
make a branch to Wakefield of about five miles down the Alverthorpe
Valley, there to join the Pontefract and Goole, the Wakefield branch
of the London and York, and the Midland Railways. It is evident,
therefore, that the proposed railway and its intended branch (aided
by the West Riding Union line between Bradford and Cleckheaton)
will provide the shortest route hitherto projected from Halifax and
Bradford to Wakefield, Doncaster, and the eastern counties.
From Halifax to the proposed junction at Methley the distance will
be about nineteen miles ; and, although the undulating surface of the
country along a portion of the line will occasion some expensive
works, yet the proposed capital is amply sufficient to complete the
whole of the railway, with its branches and stations. And the pro-
moters are enabled to state most confidently that the through and
local traffic in passengers, goods, and minerals, will be such as to
relater this urate.taklug One of the most profitable in the kingdom.
The gradients are not unfavourable, there are no rivers or canals
to cross, and the project does not interfere with ornamented property
of any kind,
The Parliamentary survey is now in progress and will be ready
for the forthcoming session.

The liability of the shareholders will be limited by the Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their shares, and power will be taken to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all deposits and calls from the time of
payment to the opening of the line.

A
more enlarged prospectus, together with the names of an influen-
tial Provisional Committee, will shortly be published; in the mean-
time, every information may be obtained of the solicitors, to whom
application for shares may be made in the subjoined form. A pre-
ference will be given in the allotment to landowners en the line and
parties locally Interested.
By order,

CARR and NETTLETON, Solicitors to the Promoters
Wake&ld, October 8, 1845.
To the Previsional Committee of the Halifax and Hull Direct

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 20..
each in the above proposed railway, and I undertaks to accept the
same, or any less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay, when required, the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share.

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