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London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

LINCOLN, HORNCASTLE, SPILSBY, and
WAINFLEET HAVEN RAILWAY. •
(Registered provisionally.)
Capital, 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251 each.
Deposit, 21. 125. 6d. per Share,
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE..
The Right Honourable and Reverend Lord Bayning
Sir John Macpherson Brakenbury, London
Captain Douglas Kinnair Pulteney, Park-street, London.
Lieutenant-General Bind' Reynardson, Holywell Hall, Lincolnshire
The Worshipful Mayor of Lincoln
Major-General Parlby, of Rutland Gate, Hyde Park, London, Di-
rector of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
James Whiting Yorke, Esq., Wahnesgate Hall, Lincolnshire
George Bourne, Esq., East Keels Hall, Lincolnshire
William Woolby Cave, Esq., Lincolnshire
John Charles Fieldsend, Esq., Busby house, Lincolnshire
George Bland, ,Esq., Banker, Thrapstone, Northamptonshire
Wright Mason Esq., Wainfleet, Lincolnshire
William Charles Calthorp, Esq., Spilsby, Lincolnshire
John Henry Bourne, Esq., Partney, Lincolnshire
John Henry Seels, Esq., Wainfleet Directorol
Thomas Parker Bainbrigge, Esq., of the Derby and Crewe
Railway
Robert Betts, Wool Merchant, Hortica.stle, Lincolnshire
Samuel Smith, Esq., Croft, Lincolnshire
Messrs. Marshall and Thontas Heanley, Merchants, Wainfleet
R. G. Chatterton, Esq., Merchant, Croft.
(With power to add to, their number.)
SOLICITORs.
Messrs. Scott and Tahourdin, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, I joints°.
Messrs. Bourne and Son, Alford and Splilsby, Lincolnshire, lichors.
Marcus Iluish, Esq.; Castle Donnington, near Derby.
• LOCAL AGENTS.
Richard Mason, Esq., Town .Clerk, Lincoln
T. S. Merrifield, Esq., Solicitor, Wainfleet.
BANKERS.
London—Masterman and Co. •
Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co.
Nottingham—Hart, Fellowes, and Cb.
Horneastle—Garflt, Claypons, and Co.
Alford and Spilsby—T. Bourne, Esq. •
Wainfleet—Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company.
Leeds—Beckett and Co.
This project is intended to form the most direct communication
between the important grazing country of the Lincolnshire Marshes
and the large manufacturing and consuming districts of the Midland
and Northern Counties ; and to establish an immediate connexion
between the East Coast and South Wolds of Lincolnshire, and the
various coal Yields in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire,
thereby facilitating the export of corn, wool, cattle, and other agri-
cultural produce, and the import of coal, timber, stone, slate, seeds,
oil-cake, and artificial manures.
By this line (in communication with other railways), Birmingham,
Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Wakefield, Nottingham,
Derby, Stafford, the Potteries, and other important manufacturing
towns, will be placed in direct connexion with Ilamburgh, Rotter-
dam, Antwerp, and the principal seaports of the north of Europe ;
between which places and 'Wainfleet the voyage will be several hours
shorter than from either Hull or Grimsby.
Therels a good passenger traffic generally throughout the line,
swelled by the large and numerous fairs, held at Lincoln, Horncastle,
Spllsby, Partney, Burgh," and Wainfleet (for knees, cattle, and
sheep), and, by the visitors to Skegness, one of the principal watering
places on the Lincolnshire coact, the whole of which will be mate-
rially increased by railway accommodation.
The improvement of the extensive harbour of Wainfleet Haven,
and the forreing there a perfect shipping station for the manufactur-
ing districts, is one of the important features in this undertaking:
. This haven possesses natural roadsteads of a superior description,
offering a safe anchorage for shipping of any burthen, in 24 feet of
• water, at ebb tide, close to the shore at Gibraltar Point. Any num-
ber of ships can ride safely at anchor; and large fleets of merchant-
men frequently' resort thither for' safety during the prevalence of
northerly gales, an advantage imperfectly possessed by both Hull and
Grimsby; added to which, a great saving will be effected in the Cus-
tom, dock, and harbour dues, as well as In pilotage and insurance.
No sea works of any magnitude will be required.
The length of the proposed line will be about 40 miles, and the
country does not present any engineering difficulties.
No rat/Way in existence or in contemplation provides accom-
modation for the district, Of -country through which this line will
pass. Application has been made to the principal landowners on the
llne, and no objection-1e anticipated.
A portion of the.Shares' will .be 'reserved for parties locally Inter-
rested, • and the remaMler will be allotted to persons giving un-
exceptionable refbrelices. 'No Shareholder will be liable beyond his
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subscription.
The Subscribers' Agreement will contain powers to the Provisional
Committee to run into-other railways now or hereafter to be made,
and to alter the termini of the proposed line, so that the main ob-
ject of the scheme be carried out.
Applications for shares, In the subjoined Sorm, may be made to the
solicitors and to the' following sharebrokers t—Mr. King, 3, Bar-
tholomew-lane, London ; Messrs. Parsons and Townley, Liverpool ;
Mr. Newbury, Manchester; Mr. Ironside, Sheffield; Mr. Pollard,
Lincoln ; and Messrs. Eyre end Shaw, Derby.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Lincoln, Horncastle, Spilsby,
and Wainfleet Haven Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares in the
proposed railway, and I agree to accept the same or such smaller
number-as may be allotted to me, and I.indertake to pay the deposit
thereon, and to sign the necessary deeds when required, according
to the ternis of the prospectus.
Dated the day of

1845.
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HULL AND BARNSLEY JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY.
. (Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMILITTEM.
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull
John Atkinson, Esq.
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq.
Thomas Barkworth, Esq.
Batchellor Brownlow, Esq.
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq.
Thoillad Noy, Estj.•
William D. Thornton Duesberry, Esq.
Joseph Gee, Esq.
John Gresham, Esq.
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq.
Robert Kirk, Esq.
Samuel Lightfoot,, Esq.
John Lofthouse, Esq.
Sir William Lowthorp, Esq.
James Mayelston, Esq., one of the Directors of the Hull and Selby
Railway Company •
Thomas M`Turk, Esq.
Benjamin M`Turk, Esq.
John Moor, Esq.
John Ostler,' Esq.
Thomas Raikes, Esq.
Christopher Leake Ringrose, Esq.
Thomas Ringrose, Esq.
George Robinson, Esq.
John Smith, Esq.
Daniel Sykes, Esq.
John Tall, Esq.
' Thomas Thompson, Esq.
Fewster Wilkinson, Esq.
Captain Whitaker, R.N.
Thomas Ward; Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir William Lowthmp .
John Atkinson, Esq.
John Gresham, Esq.
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq,
James Mayelston, Esq.
Thomas M`Turk, Esq.
John Moor, Esq.
George Robinson, Esq:
John Tall, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Pease and Liddells, and Messrs. Thomas ant Robert Ralkes,
and Company, Hull
Messrs. Glynn, Hallifax, Mills, and Company, and Messrs. Curries
and Company, London.
ENGINEERS—Messrs. Leather and. Son, and James Oldham, Esq.,
M. Inst. C E.
SOLICITORS—Thomas Thompson, Esq., and Robert Wells, Esq.
LAND AGENT—Leonard Brooks Earnshaw, Esq.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)--John Moor, Esq. -
The object of this undertaking is to effect a Cheaper and more
direct communication between Hull and the manufacturing districts,
connecting the Great Midland and the Sheffield and Manchester
Rilways with the Hull and Selby ailway, by a short routs from
Barnsley to Selby or Howden, or sßome other pOint on the Hull and
Selby line.
Hull now ranks as the third Port in the kingdom, and is the great
outlet to Northern Europe. Its present capacious Docks are situate
in immediate connexion with the railway terminus. Under the
powers of an Act obtained in the session of 1844, two extensive decks
are in course of construction. one of them expressly intended to meet
the rapidly increasing wants of the railway. With these present and
immediate prospective advantages, it is obviously of the utmost im-
portance to secure for Hu,l the most direct communication with the
manufacturing districts, especially as strenuous efforts are being made
to divert the stream of traffic into either channels.
-The existing communication with the larger portion of those dis-
tricts is very circuitous,. and is, moreover, .subject to numerous ob-
afflictions. But the slightest inspection of a railway map will show
that this projected line runningfrom Barnsley to the Hull and Selby
Railway at Selby or Howden will afford the most direct practicable
communication between Hull and the whole of South Lancashire,
Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Wales, with their rich mineral and in-
dustrial productions ; the remaining link, which will unite the line
with ,Penistone on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, it is anti
elpated will be carried out, by that Company, but, if otherwise, ithest wile
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form part of the proposed undertaking. By the aid of
connecting lines, and others projected, the shortest, cheapest,
and best possible communication will be effected between
Manchester and its. , ipanufacturing seburbs with the great
shipping port for Northern Europe. Not only will the dis-
tricts already mentioned benefit by and become tributary to the
proposed undertaking—but by its Junction with the Great Midland
at 13tifnsley, it will open a much more direct communication with the
Mineral Districts in the Midland Counties, such as those around
Birmingham ifind Sheffield- Leicester and Nottingham, Derby and
Belper, and by its communication with the Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole Railway It will shorten the distance to Wakefield and the
populous manufacturing Towns in that District of the West Riding.
Under these circumstances, it is obvious that the proposed Hull and
Bartisley Junetion Railway must command a most important Traffic,
-atid as the country over which it will pass is a very easy one, and for
the Mod part quite level, there can be no doubt that it will prove a
first-class undertaking;, and, when, viewed. as completing the most
direct Trunk Line between LiVerpobol on the West Coast and
Dull on the East, it tinny justly be 'regarded as an uncertaking of a
national character. No mention•has been made of the traffic from
Hull-to London and the South, a great portion of which must neces-
sarily pass over this Line, nor of the Silkstone Coal Fields, nor of the
supplies of food which the fertile districts of Holderness and East
Yorkshire, and also the Fisheries along the Coast, will seed by this
shorter route to Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, and other large
Manufacturing places, yet these of themselves would constitute
sources of traffic of the utmost importance to the project.
It is proposed to unite the Line with the Hull and Selby Railway
at Howden If no insuperable difficulty present itself, but otherwise at
Selby.
It is proposed to appropriate a large portion of the shares to Share-
holders In the Hull and Selby Railway Company ; and in allotting
the remainder to give i preference to parties locally interested and
to Railway Companies in friendly connexion with the intended Line.
Power will be, sought to lease the proposed railway, if it should
hereafter be thought desirable, to some of the companies whose lines
-will be in connexion with it.
••• The Provisional Committee deem it necessary to give notice that
no further applications for shares can be received after Scturday, the
13th of September instant, until which day such applications may
forwarded to the Secretary, John Moor, Esq., 1, St. James's-street,
Hull ; or to Thomad Thompson, Esq., or Robert Wells, Esq., ont
Solicitors, Parliament-street, Hull.
Hull, Sept. 1, 1545. •
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Hull and BarnsleyJunction
- , Railway.
I request that you will allot to me
shares of 201. each in
the above undertaking, and I agree to accept such shares as may be
allotted to me, and'also• hi pay the deposit thereon, and to sign the
Parliamentary contract and the subscribers' agreement when re.
quired. •
Dated the

day of

1845.

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