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THE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,000/., is 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir James Anderson, Knt., M.D., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway
Lieut.-General Sir R. Barton, K.C.8., '2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Heresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and West
3.l.ldland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and West-end Junction Railways
William Blanchard, Esq., York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter .'essions, and Director of the York. Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square; Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq.. Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., lnce Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London
Direct Railways
Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brief..
Lieutenant-colonel Lotman Dickson,Curzon-street, May-fair ; Direc-
tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Equity
and Law Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund .Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Captain S. M. Fisher, Junior United Service Club; Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and Bideford and
Tavistock Railways
Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq., Temple
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. J. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Hsyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter Railway
John llolford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land ; and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 128, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row ; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railway
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Chorley, and LiVerpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
and Rhonda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
Horatio Nelson, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director
of the Tring' Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railwaysallways
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London; Director of
the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beanfoy-terrace, Maida Vale
H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square; Director of the West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway
William Shidley, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction
Railways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich
Edward H. o.. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymmth; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymoth Railway
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman of London; and Director of the
Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Leeds and Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways
Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ;
Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool
Direct Western Railways
and Derby Railways
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(With power to add to their number.)
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CONSULTING
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., M.1.C.E.,
ACTING ENGINEERS.

Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs. Gough and Roumieu, C.E.
SURVEYORS.—Messrs. Shuttieworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. ChaUntier and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square.
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.
The principal objects of the scheme are-Ist. To remedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on tile South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with-
out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in-
terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other.
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulse-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
lines from that place.
It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.
A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removing of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre-
sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis-
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
pany with which this line may ultimately be connected.
A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the
London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight
line of communication from the west end of London to Croydon,
Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke-
stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more

easily accessible from that part of the metropolis.
The great amount of traffic at the present time upon the roads be-
tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, &c., and London, proves at once
that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies
of the mass of population to whom this line will be available.
The population who reside 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
public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascen.
tanned 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 fully 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 Streatham, 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 aprofltable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, an,l 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 Anther information, prospectuses, and shares (in
the 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 :
Princes-
street ; —viz , -Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes-
Mr. H. J. Williams, 80;01d Broad-street ; Messrs. Greystone
and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham
; Messrs. Watson and' Co., Leeds • Messrs. Brady and
Stainforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Sand-
ford, Exeter ; Mr• James Pringle, Edinburgh.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above railway, upon which or upon 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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