The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

MITE EASTERN COUNTIES, BARKING,
AND THAMES JUNCTION RAILWAY, AND COAL AND
COASTING DOCK, WITH STEAM-BOAT WHARF.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. Cd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Lennox
The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P.
The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, Tuntingdon, Sussex
Sir Edward Pym, Bart. Clifford-street •
The Hon. Captain John Arbuthnot Keane, Navy and Army Club
The Hon. Adolphus Capel
James Adams, Esq. Thames-street
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq. Temple-park, Hampstead, director of
the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, arid Goole, Doncas-
ter, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Rail-
way, and of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
James Burness, Esq. Stratford-grove, Essex, and 64, Cornhill, di-
rector of the Stafford Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct
Railways
John James Cavan, Esq. 7. Charles-street, St. James's-square, di-
rector of the Eastern Counties. Junction, and Southend Railway
Miles Dormer, Esq. 31, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, director
of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway, and
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Terrand Bearden, Fsq. Rochdale, director of the Eastern
Counties Junction, and Southend and Staffordshire Potteries
Railways
Captain Seth N. Fisher, director of the Warwick and Worcester
Jiralway
Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square, director of the York and
Lancaster Railway
Captain Farrington, R.N. West Cowes
Thomas Finlay, Esq 69, Cambridge-terrace, Edgeware-road
Captain Twistleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, director of the
British Mutual Life-office
John Holmes, Esq. St. James's-street, director of the York and Lan-
caster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
Thomas Harley, Esq. 11, Benlomond-place, Stockwell
Thomas Hodges, Esq. Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
Thomas Hawker, Esq. 1, New Broad-street
Wm. Kempe, Esq. Teign-villa, Teignmouth, Devon
D. B. Major, Esq, Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, director of
the York and Lancaster, and Eastern Counties Junction and South-
end Railways
Alexander Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. director of the York and Lancas-
ter Railway
James Reed, Esq. Northbury-house, Barking
F. Robinson, Esq. Barking
William Shaw, Esq. director of the London and Birmingham Exten-
sion, and South and Midlands Junction Railways, and managing
director of the Royal Farmers' and General Fire and Life and Hail
Insurance Company
Tuson, E. W. Esti F.R.S. 10, Russell-place, Bedford-square
James Vickers, 1- sq. Markham, director of the Armagh, Coleraine,
and Portrush, Sligo, and Shannon, Dorking, Brighton, Arundel At-
mospheric Railway
Colonel Verner
Richard White, Esq. coal and ship-owner, Sunderland
Robert Moon Watson, Esq. coal and skip-owner, Croxdale
Colliery-
office, Sunderland
George Harrison, Esq. ship-owner, Sunderland
Augustus Collingridge, Fsq. Regent-street, Pall-mall, director of the
Merchant Traders' Insurance Association
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq. coal-owner, Newcastle, director of
the Avon and Severn Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Henry Weech Burgess, Esq. B. D. Major, Esq.
Miles Donner, Esq. W. Shaw, Esq.
John Hohnes, Esq. Charles Waite, Esq.
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. Captain Fisher.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—CoI. Landmann, F.S.A. M.I.C.E.
ENGINEER—George Montgomery Lewis, C.E.
BANKERS—Commercial Bank of London.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Reed and Robinson, 31, Moorgate-street.
AGENT AT SUNDERLAND—Robert Browne, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq. Spring-gardens

The attention of the public and of the civic autkerities of this
great metropolis, through the powerful medium of the public press,
has upon several occasions been excited by the detail of numerous
and almoit daily occurring accidents on the river Thames. With a
view to abate, If not altogether remove an evil of enormously grow-
ing magnitude, the dangerous navigation the river, the present.
project is put before the public.
Although the chief cause of this danger is acknowledged to be the
blocking up the navigation, by the numberless tiers of colliers and
their attendant barges, and their ingress and egress to and from their
station, still no efficient remedy has been hitherto proposed.
It is admitted by all that the only mode by which this great and
dangerous nuisance can be removed is by a dock, at a considerable
distance from the Pool, and a suitable and most convenient site has
been selected, in every way adapted for the object contemplated ;
and which not only combines facilities, in no ordinary degree, for
coat and coasting vessels to enter at all times of the Vie, at a dis-
tance far removed from the Pool (about three miles below Woolwich),
but also at a locality, by the aid of a railway, from which tile various
produce may be transmitted within half an hour into the very heart
of the City.
It is proposed to construct a dock at a point in that part of the
river, four and half miles below ltiackwall, called Gallion's Reach,
and thence to carry a railway font* miles long through East Hans,
Plaistow, and West Ham, to the Eastern Counties Railway at Strat-
ford, where it will join the Northern and Eastern Railway, and form
a central point from which goods may be transmitted to the various
parts of the country which those railways traverse, and to London.
The spot at which the dock and works will be constructed has been
selected as being a part of the river where at the lowest state of the
tide there will always be a sufficiency of water to permit the ingress
and egress of vessels, as a reference to the Admiralty charts will de-
monstrate ; by this arrangement they will be enabled to discharge
their cargoes, leave dock, and take in ballast (which is in the imme-
diate vicinity where the Trinity House dredge is generally working),
almost before they could have even reached their ordinary station in
the Pool, as at present. The great saving in time thus effected, it
is manifest, will be of the utmost consequence and advantage to the
owners of these vessels ; and by materially decreasing the cost,
would enable them to supply the consumer at a much less rate than
at present.
It is intended also to erect a sea-wall and wharf, 1,500 feet long,
for the accommodation of passengers by steam-packets and other
vessels passing to and fro. The economy of time thus effected will
be very considerable ; for by the aid of this railway (bringing Shore-
ditoli and the intended terminus at Finsbury within twenty minutes)
nearly three-quarters of an hour will be saved over every other
mode of conveyance.
It is moreover to be remarked that from this spot Gravesend can
be reached in forty minutes, consequently the time consumed, from
Finsbury to Gravesend by this route, would be about one hour.
As the Eastern Counties Railway will be united to all the other
great trunk lines, by means of the northern and southern connecting
, line just projected, it may be justly said that the Steam-Packet
Wharf now proposed will be the only metropolitan Continental ter-
, minus.

By the construction of this railway, with its very important ad-
junct, a coal and coasting dock, a most valuable addition will be
made to the Eastern Counties revenue- by calling into existence a
traffic which, under any other circumstances, could not be created ;
thereby developing to the proprietors of that extensive line that its
capabilities have hitherto lain dormant, and only required the neces-
sary extension to the Thames with a dock to secure to it a national
depot for produce for all parts of the globe to he disseminated
through the numerous and increasing extensions of the parent line.
The carriage of coal alone would add no insignificant sum to the
hitherto declared dividends of the Eastern Counties, whey it is con-
sidered that more than two and a half millions of tons are annua.ly
imported into the pert of London, which amount would be greatly
increased by means of the facility of railway transmission thus
afforded.

It may be proper to remark that it would be difficult to find, so
near the metropolis, a four miles course in every sense so eligible
for a railway, so free from obstruction, and so cheap of construction,
that the coal traffic of itself would yield- an ample return for the
outlay.
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Prospectuses, plans, and forms of application for shares, may be
had of the Solicitors, at the temporary Offices of the Company, 31,
3foorgate-street, London, and of Mr. D. B. Major, 27, Change Alley,
Cornhill, London ; and of the following brokers :—Messrs. Geo.
Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Mr. Geo. Smith and Mr. P. Leicester,
Manchester ; Mr. James Jameson, Leeds ; Mr. G. It. Gliddon,
Exeter; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull; and Messrs. Thomas F.
Dickinson and Co., Newcastle-upon Tyne.