The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-27 00:00:00

D IRECT INDEPENDENT KENT, SURREY,
AND SUSSEX UNION RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.). --
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Capital, 1,500,0001., of 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Temporary Offices, Queen-street Chambers, Queen-street, Cheapside
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Chairmanof the Cheltenham, Ox-
Thfberßd
Sir William Wynn, K.B. Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir James Eyre, M.D. Lower Brook-street, director of the Hull
gabntdHo Brighton
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The Rev. Stephen Isaacson, A.M. Berner's-street, director of the
Hull and Holyhead Direct Railway
Thomas Steel, Esq., Edgware-road, director of the Railway Club
Chambers
Captain Bellew, Kensington, director of the Hull, Birmingham, and
Swansea Railway
R. Sylvanus P. Banfield, Esq. Percy-street, London
Thomas Charles Newton, Esq. Bruton-street, Berkeley- square, and
Lugwardina, Herefordshire, director of the Isle of Man, and the
Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Railways
John Lloyd, Esq. Nicholas-lane, and Stoke Newington, director of
the Thames, Southern, and Eastern Counties Junction Railways
J. S. Moore, Esq., 5. Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn
Rees Price, Esq. yne-hall, Ilford, Essex, director of the Hereford
and Merthyr Tydvil Junction, and North Western Trunk Railways
William Davison, Esq, Rothbury-house, Northumberland
Joseph Turnley, Esq. Belgrave-square, London
Major Hawkes, Baker-street, Portman-square, Chairman of the Ja-
maica, North Midland, North Midland Extension, director of the
St. Alban's and Hertford, Bristol and Dovor, Boston and Bir-
mingham Direct, and the Lynn and Fakenham Railways
Captain L. H. Scott, R.N. Royal Navy Club, Bond-s reet, director of
the Jamaica, North Midland Extension, St. Alban's and Hert-
ford, Bristol and Dover, Boston and Birmingham, and the Lynn
and Fakenham Railways
W. B. Palmer, Esq. Piccadilly and Birmingham
J. Bowra, Esq. Shame, Kent
Charles Maclean, Esq. Newlands, Edgware
Robert Phillips. Esq. Gloucester Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's-
park, director of the Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Rail-
way Company
John Ramsden, Esq. Kensington Gore, and Doncaster, director of
the Deal and Dover, and Lyme Regis Railways
John White, Esq. 7, Park-place, Clarence-gate, Regent's-park
C. M. Brown, Esq. Montague-street, Portman-square, director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and Trinidad and
Great Eastern, and South Western Railways
John Strange Williams, Esq. Mitchem, Surrey, director of the Direct
London and Hastings Railway
James Cibbins, Esq, deputy chairman of the British Annuity Com-
pany, Broad-street, City
Francis G. Moore, Esq. Half-moon-street, Piccadilly
Charles Maplesden Noakes, Esq., Wrotham, Kent
Thomas Walker, Esq. Wrotham, Kent
Thomas Best, Eqq. Cuckdeld, Sussex

(With power to add to their number).
Barams —Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and No. 6, Hen-
rietta4treet, Covent-garden.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
AcTING ENGINEER—R. Finlayson, Esq.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER —Mr. Charles Clark.
SURVEYORS AND VALUERS—Messrs. Booth and Son.
SoLiCiToas—Messrs. Garratt and Co., Queen-street Chambers,
Queen-street.
LOCAL A GENTS —MESSIS. Tribe, Worthing.

A prospectus with the complete list of local provisional committee
will be issued in a few days.
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The object of this railway is not only to afford accommodation to
the counties proposed to be traversed, but will also unite with the
Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway, the Metropolitan Rail-
ways Junction, the Chatham, Rochester, Maidstone, and Tonbridge
Wells Railway, and the Coast Railway. The great importance of
this Union line of railway will be immediately seen upon reference to
the map. It is intended to commence at High-street, in the Borough,
passing through Camberwell, where it will divide and take the fol-
lowing course, viz. : The Kent branch will pass through the
thickly populated parishes of Peckham, Peckham Rye, Lewisham,
Bromley, Orpington, Chelsfleld, Shoreham, Otford, Kempsing Seal,
Wrotham, near Addington, Town Mailing, East Mailing, and Dit-
ton, from thence to Maidstone, where it will form a junction with
the Chatham, Rochester, Maidstone, and Tonbridge Wells Direct
Railway. The Surrey and Sussex branch will run through Brixton,
Brixton-hill, Clapham, Balham-hill, Tooting, Mitcham, Morden,
Cheam, Ewell. Epsom, where it will form a junction with the pro-
posed branch to Leatherhead, Headley, Mickleham, from thence to
Dorking, where it will communicate with the Metropolitan Railways
Junction, and proceed through Capal, Rusper, Warnharss, Horsham,
Nuthurst, West Grinstead, Ashurst, Henfield, near Wiston, and on
to Steyning, forming a junction with the proposed Brighton and
Cheltenham Railway, continuing through Bramber, Coombes, Lanc-
ing, Sompting, Broadwater, and to Worthing, where it will come in
immediate contact with the Coast Railway,
It is satisfactory to find, from strict calculations, that the pas-
senger traffic arising from the densely populated parishes contigu-
ous to the metropolis, hitherto unsupplied .by railway, viz., Cam••
berwell, Peckham, Peckham Rye, Brixton, Clapham, Tooting,
Mitcham, &c. &c., will give this line a decided advantage over all
other projects, and will alone secure a profitable return.
The general passenger traffic of the Kent Branch, (notwithstand-
ing its unquestionable extent) may be considered of secondary im-
portance to the immense transit of agricultural produce which this
county, justly termed " The Garden of England," daily sends to the
metropolitan markets, and particularly the locality of the Borough.
The importance of Maidstone as a terminus is obvious, it being
situated on the River Medway, and containing courts of justice,
connty gaol, cavalry depot, and many other public establishments,
the assises and sessions, and the business of the whole county being
conducted there. It is also, with the adjacent villages, the most
flourishing part of Kent. being surrounded by paper-mills, which are
more numerous and extensive in this neighbourhood than in any
other part of the kingdom, besides several other extensive factories.
breweries, &c.
The Surrey and Sussex branch besides (unquestionably creating
an immense increase of passenger traffic between the metropolis and
the flourishing and new celebrated watering-place, Worthing) must
necessarily command the entire transit of fish, of which many tons
are conveyed weekly from Worthing to London, independent of other
commodities, and the agricultural produce of these two fertile and
productive counties.
The proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present exist-
ing between London and Epsom, Dorking, Horsham, and Steynng,
and will afford direct intercourse with Worthing, one of the most
romantic, fashionable, and delightful watering places on the coast of
Sussex, and an Independent Railway will of necessity occasion a
great influx of company to this already justly celebrated place. The
superiority of Worthing as a bathing place stands unrivalled. The
views of the surrounding country are both extensive and picturesque ;
its sands are particularly worthy of note, being as smooth as carpet,
and offering a healthy and delightful drive of ten miles. It is shel-
tered by an uninterrupted chain of the South Down, which excludes
the wind even in the winter months. The salubrity of its climate is
too well known to require further comment.
But the greatest source of profit to the shareholders will arise from
the immense number of passengers now proceeding by omnibus and
other conveyances to and from the metropolis, and the extensive and
densely populated suburbs through which this line is intended to pass,
and it may be fairly calculated that not less than 30,000 will daily