The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-19 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
DIRECT SHEFFIELD AND MACCLES-
FIELD RAILWAY,
k',ruting Junctions with all Great the
Bgrireata t and important Railways in
in.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,00010 in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
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h important line, commencing at the terminus of the Man-
and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town
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Sheffield, will proceed in a direct course by or through Hope,
Hathersage, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
canal-Port of the Potteries), to the terminus of the projected Man-
chester and Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of
the line being nearly thirty miles.
This junction stands in the very centre of the entire railway sys-
tem of England, and will complete the shain of railway communi-
cation between the river Humber, the towns of Sheffield and Mac-
clesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wiches of Cheshire, the
City of Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead, Bangor-Ferry, and the
Harbour of Holyhead. All the necessary arrangements are in pro-
gress to procoed,to Parliament at the ensuing session.
A detailed prospectus, containing the names of an influential Pro-
vision al Committee, Sze., will be published in a few days.
Meantime applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs.
.7attarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London ; and G. A. Coleman, Esq.,
2, New Inn, Strand

By order,
GEORGE T. HIRE, Secretary.

THE HUDDERSFIELD AND EAST AND
WEST COASTS DIRECT RAILWAY,
onnecting Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Goole,
Great Grimsby, and Hull ; with a communication to the Metropolis,
from or near the Cudworth Station of the North Midland Railway.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
In compliance with the Standing Order of the House of Lords.
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The objects of this undertaking are—first, to establish one con-
Urinous, and a more direct and shorter line of railway communica-
'ion between Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Goole,
treat Grimsby, and Hull, than at present exists, or is proposed by
eny other scheme now before the public ; secondly, to give the be-
nefit of railways to several populous and important intermediate
places now unprovided therewith ; thirdly, to afford increased fa-
cilities to transit to the whole intervening district ; and fourthly, to
apen a communication from Huddersfield, southward, with the me-
tropolis.

The Legislature having, during the recent session, sanctioned the
raking of a railway from Manchester to Huddersfield, by the Sad-
lleworth and Marsden Valleys, a communication is thereby secured
aetwixt the port of Liverpool and Huddersfield ; a similar communi-
zation is now called for with the Eastern Coast, and in order to ac-
zemplish the same, it is therefore proposed to make a line, corn-
nencing at, or near, the station in Huddersfield, of the Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway, passing through the Kirkheeton and Kirk-
burton Valleys, by way of, or near Barnsley, to or near the Cud-
worth station of the North Midland Railway, there forming a junc-
tion with that railway (by which a communication with the metro-
polls will be obtained), and thence proceeding to Goole, Great
Grimsby, and Hull, by the nearest practicable routes. In order to
effect the required objects, at as little expense, andlessen the dis-
tance as much as possible, liberty is reserved to form junctions with
any other existing or projected railways.
On reference to a map, it will be seen that the construction of
the proposed line, with the existing and projected railways, will
attain not on'y the several objects before stated, but also that it will
pass through, or near, several of the most extensive and celebrated
soal-fields, beds of stone, and limestone, and other mineral districts,
in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It is impossible, in the limits of a prospectus, to enumerate or
estimate the benefits to be derived from this undertaking; making
Huddersfield the centre of communication between the two seat,
uniting it by means of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway to
Liverpool on the west ; and by the proposed line, to the three ports
of Goole, Great Grimsby, and Hull, on the east ; and the line passing
through a densely-populated commercial and manufacturing part of
the kingdom, as well as a highly-cultivated agricultural district, will
afford a ready transport to the natural productions of each locality ;
added to which, it is well known that considerable portions of such
manufacturing districts have hitherto been very inadequately sup-
plied with coal, and also that there is a daily increasing demand by
the outports of that article for exportation ; whilst on the other hand
the superabundant produce of the rich agricultural districts of York-
shire and Lincolnshire, bordering upon the line, are in equal demand
for the manufacturing population.
The immense traffic, both through and local, which must pass upon
the line, will afford ample remuneration to the capitalist.
A great Fart of the line will pass through a country favourable for
the construction of a railway, and the remainder presents no difficul-
ties of a serious character. In the construction of the line, every en-
deavour will be made to cause the least possible infringement on the
rights or claims of existing railways, or injury to private property.
A portion of the shares will be reserved, at the discretion of the
Committee, for such railway companies at this line may form junc-
tions, or be connected with.
The liability of each Shareholder will be restricted by Act of Par-
liament to the amount of ihisl subscription ; and power will be taken
by the Act to: allow interest, at the rate of 41. per centum per an-
num upon the paid-up capital, from the date of each payment until
the completion of the railway.
lApplications.for shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to
either of the undermentioned sharebrokers, viz.:—Messrs. Baily
and Hammond, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, and Mr. John
Dobson, Commercial Hall, London ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and
Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Johnston, Bradley, and Walker, Man-
chester ; Mr. William Moore, Mr. John Gatliffe, Mr. Frederick Tur-
ner, and Messrs. John Wilson and Co. Huddersfield ; Mr. James
Hervey, Halifax ; Mr. Walter Smith, Halifax and Elland ; Messrs.
Smith and Perfect, Leeds ; Mr. William Hodgetts, Barnsley ; Mr.
John Dails, and Mr, David Foster, Goole ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal,
Mr. Samuel Phillips, and Messrs. William, Caley, jun., and Co.,
Hull ; Mr. J. P. Loft, Great Grimsby ; Mr. Thomas Firth, Ponte-
fract ; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle ; Mr. J. W. Haythorn, Notting-
ham ; Messrs. Williams and Sunderland, Leicester ; Mr. J. N.'Balme,
Gloucester ; Messrs. Thomas F. Dickinson and Co., Newcastle-
upon-Tyne ; Mr. Peter Watt, Glasgow ; and Messrs. Stuart and
Murray, and Mr. David Kinnear, Edinburgh ; or to
WILLIAM JACOMB, Esq., Huddersfield,
Secretary to the Company.
Ike* The names. of the Provisional Committee and of the several
officers of the Company will be published in a few days.