The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE

BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE
WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY, with a branch from or near Wrotham to Chatham.

Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

Sir John Key, Bart. Alderman, Director of the Exeter, Dorcheu

ter, and Weymouth Railway
John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend
Medhurst Troughton, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Thomas Pal:later, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Mr. -- Tisdell, Councillor of Gravesend
Jeremiah Rosher, Esq., Rosherville, near Gravesend
John Brough, E.q., Herne Bay
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay
W. A. Campbell, Esq Wanstead.park
Col. Fitch, York.terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and
Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Goodwin. Esq., Battersea
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent
William Kuper, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great
Western, and South Western Railway
T. B. Kemp, Esq., Director •f the Blythe and Churnet Valley,
and Macclesf•ld and Lichfield Railways
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple-lane
Edward Lacey, Esq., St. Paul's. churchyard, and Gravesend
Jonas Lev), Esq., 55, Tavistock-square
H. C. Leahy, E.q., St. James's square, Director of the Direct Bir-

mingham and Brighton, and Cleat Welsh Junction Railway
R. H. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Montague-street, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se.

_
•ern Commission
The Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Edmund Pallister, Gravesend
S. H. Powell, Eaq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland

Junction Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryansten.street, Portman.square
E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
Walter White, Esq„ Fitzroy.square, Director of the London and
Windsor Railway
J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton.street, Dorset.square
(With power to add to their numbers).

commtrrws OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend S. H. Powell, Esq.
John Brough, Esq. Walter White, Esq.
Jahn Kerschner, Esq.
(With power to add to their number).

BANKERS.
Meson. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks,

Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield and CO.
CONSULTING ENGINSESH—Sir John Macneil and James Thom.

son, Esq.
ENGINEER—Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E.
SoLimon IN LONDON—George Smith, Esq., 24, Go!den-square.

LOC•L SOLICITORS.
Messrs Coombe and Sharland, Town.hall, Gravesend
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Messrs. J. and E. Blakey Lewes.
The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail-
way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail-
way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river
by a steam floating-bridge to Gravesend, passing by Wrotham to
Tunbridge, thence by the South-Eastern Railway to Tunbridge
Wells, passing Uckfleld to Lewes, and thence joining the Brighton,
Lewes, and Hastings Railway to Brighton.

An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import-
ance of this railway, whether considered in a local er national
point of view, forming as it will a moat useful chain of local com-
munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it
passes.

It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of
the Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by
way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con.
junction with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the
shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Coun.
ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy
communication with the whole of the populous and important
counties of Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and
thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected
lines north and south of the metropolis.

The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.

With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent
and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be
effected ; and as such, the project has been received with the most
distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal
proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have
promised their entire sanctLin to, and will cordially support it.
The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present
no difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf.
ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large
accession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the
increased accommodotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering
the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive
lines of railway in that part of the country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form a branch
from Wrotham to Chatham.

The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, anti 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 prospectuses, and also for shares, may be ad-
dressed in the form annexed to George Smith, Esq., Solicitor, 24,
Goldeo.square; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town-hall, Graves-
end ; Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes ; and also to the following
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford.cour',
Throgmorton.street, London ; Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change-
alley, London; Messrs. S. It. and R. Healy, Liverpool ; Messrs.
Gardiner and Heap, Manchester; Mr. Isaac fronside,
Shsffield ; Messrs. E. C. Hoppa and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Hopwood
and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath ; Mr. A. Moffatt,
Edinburgh.

To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge
Wells, Gravesend and Eastern Counties Railway.
I request that you will allot me shares in the proposed
Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, and Easteru Coun-
ties Railway ; and I agree to take all such shares, or so many RS
may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute
the Parliamentary Contract and Subsertuers' Agreement when re
quired SD to do.

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