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IVORtESTER, HEREFORD, AND
,7 GLOUCESTER. RAILWAY,
Through Malvern, with a Branch to Ledbury.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 750,0001., hi shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

W. G. Hayter, Esq., M.P. Directors of the Great Western
R. F. Gower, Esq. and
F. P. Barlow, Esq. South Wales Railway
L. Vigers, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the South Wales Railway
Francis Rufford, Esq., Chairman of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railway
T. N. Foster, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Worcester, aid Wolver-
hampton Railway
J. Crossthwaite, Esq., Liverpool

Lawrence Hayworth, Esq., Liverpool
John Roskell, Esq., Bath

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John Rogers, Esq., Chester, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Railway
William Lewis, Esq., mayor of Worcester, and hirector of the Ox-
ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Edward Evans, Ern., Worcester, alderman and banker
Richard Yapp, Eso., Worcester, magistrate of the city, and Director
of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway
Thomas Chalk, Esq., alderman of Worcester
Charles Augustus Helm, Esq., alderman of Worcester
John Parker, Esq., Lark Hill, Worcester
Mr. William Stallard, jun., merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Wheeler, hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Southall, merchant, Worcester
Mr. Edward Giles, hop-merchant, Worcester
Mr. Henry Webb, merchant, Worcester
Mr. George Anderson, Worcester
Mr. John Turley, Worcester
Gabriel Goodman, Esq., Upton-on-Severn
Sir Hungerford Hostyns, Bart., Harewood Herefordshire
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq.. 31. P., Birch House, Herefordshire
Robert Pnlsford, Esq., M.P. for Hereford
John William Miles, Esq., Bristol and Letll'ury; Herefordshire, a
Director of the Great Western Railway Company
Edmund Broman Pateshall, Esq., Allensmore, Herefordshire
Colonel Thomas Powell, Hardwick, Herefordshire
W. George Ilemnish, Esq., Kensington-square, London, and West-
hide, Herefordshire
John Johnstone, Esq., Maidstone, Herefordshire
William James, Esq., Wilcroft, Herefordshire
Francis Hamp, Esq., Becton, Herefordshire
Henry Horn, Esq., 5, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, and
Hare-court, Temple
John Gardiner Freeman, Esq., Rockfleld, Herefordshire
Marcellas Newton, Esq., Waltham, Herefordshire
W. S. Vale, Esq., Manion, Worcestershire
Joseph Bird, Esq., Hampton, Herefordshire
George Crosse, Esq., Burcott House, Herefordshire
Thomas Jennings, Esq., Highland-grove, Fownhope Herefordshire
John Hollings, Esq., Verson, near Ledbury, Herefordshire.'
William Webb, Esq., Mayor of Hereford
Thomas Davis, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
Richard Thomas Barra, Esq., Magistrate of Hereford
John Rogers, Esq., Alderman of Hereford
William L. Gilliland, Esq., 31. D., Hereford
Edward Morris, Esq., M.D., Hereford
G. E. Terry, Esq., Hereford
W. Pulling, Esq., merchant, Hereford
John Kerr Hastings, Esq., General Manager of the Herefordshire
Banking Company, Hereford
Charles Balmer, Esq., Heretbrd
Mr. George Bonner, Hereford •
Mr. Charles Anthony, Hereford
John Dowling, Esq., Mayor of Gloucester
David Mowbray Walker, Esq., .Alderinan of Gloucester
Thomas Jenkin; Esq., Gloucester
Arthur Hammond Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester
George Jones, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Glouce.ler
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyplatt Park, Gloucestershire
Ale.i,PLisij., lerrolre_ 1,911-a4:gat:tiii:r'io re
A. 11. Phillpotts, Esq., merchant, GriftMe.sft•%r.--, •4‘ •
CharletWalker, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Robert Ileane, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
John Forster, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
George Davison Moffatt, Esq., banker, Gloucester
Charles F. Cliffe, Esq., Gloucester
Thomas C. Avery, Esq., Gloucester
W. H. Evans, Esq., merchant, Gloucester
Exonizza—l. K. Brunel, Esq.
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City and County Bank, Worcester
National Provincial Bank, Worcester
Messrs. Hoskins, Morgan, and Hamp, Hereford
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Messrs. Matthews, Phillips, and Company, Hereford
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester
County of Gloucester Bank, Gloucester
National Provincial Bank, Gloucester.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall
Mr. F. T. Elgie, Worcester
Mr. F. L. Bodenhiun and Mr. T. Evans, Hereford
Messrs. Whitcombe, Helps, and Co., Gloucester.
It is proposed that the course of this line shall be from the Worces-
ter station of the Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolverhampton Railway,
to a point near Malvern, where the line will be divided into two
branches, the one branch proceeding through or near the parish of
Bosbnry (whence there will be a branch to Ledbury) to Hereford,
where it will run into the station of the Great Western Company's
Monmouth and Heretbrd Railway, and the projected Hereford and
Shrewsburyof
fdivisiah
iegrht branchto Gloucester,wi l proceed
andft; the,joinpoint
neßaari Malvern,waythe straight
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway near that city.

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This line will puss rather more than half a mile below Great Mal-
vern, and not far distant from the town of Upton-on-Severn, both of
which places are at present entirely shut out from the benefits of
railway communication.

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The country has already been inspected under the direction of the
engineer, and it is found that there is no engineering difficulties of a
serious charcctcr to be overcome ; and indeed the greater portion of
the line presents a course extremely favourable for a railway, the
gradients being very easy. _

ieiTthe,,;o7nt of division at Malvern the Hereford line will cross
a Portion of the Malvern range by one or more tunnels, but the whole
length of the tunnelling will not much exceed one mile. From the
other side of Malvern to Hereford the surface of the country is as
favourable as could be desired.
The Gloucester line, from the point of division to its terminus, will
pass through a country peculiarly favourable, the surface being
throughout nearly one continuous level.
With regard to the immediate local advantages offered by the
proposed railway, it will effect the most direct communication be-
tween the cities of Worcester and Hereford and Gloucester and Wor-
cester, and between those cities and the delightful watering place
and favourite summer residence of Great Malvern, to which it will
also give an easy and expeditious access from other populous but
more remote districts.

The important market town of Ledbury, with the rich corn, fruit,
and hop district around it, will also be brought into closer and more
profitable connexion with the three cities ; and it cannot fail to make
a considerable addition to the traffic between Worcester and the port
of Gloucester.

The facilities presented by the proposed railway for increasing and
developing traffic in a more general and national point of view are
of a very extended character. Joining the Forest of Dean and Mon-
mouth Railways, it will afford a ready means of transit to South
Wales, and by its junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton line, and with the projected line to Porth Dynllaen,
it will give railway communication with the manufacturing and
milling districts of the North of England, especially of South Staf-
fordshire and Worcestershire, and also with North Wales,. and Ire-
land ; and by means of the Great Wertern Railway, which it joins
at Gloucester, it will complete an unbroken broad gauge line from
Wolverhampton to Exeter in the one direction, and from Pembroke
to Wolverhampton in the other. It will effect a considerable
saving in distance between the port of Gloucester and Wolverhamp-
ton, and all parts of the north ; it will be the nearest possible route
from the extreme west of England, and from South Wales to all
places north of Wolverhampton.
The enumeration of the places and districts to be traversed by the
proposed line, and a description of its course, sufficiently indicate a
remunerating amount of traffic.

It will supply to the Port of Gloucester important and bulky
articles of export, drawn from the mining and manufacturing dis -
tricts of South Staffordshire and Worcestershire ; and will still further
develon the resources of these districts by increased facility of com-
munication with their natural port. The importance of this branch
of the traffic can scarcely be over-estimated ; in one portion of the
district alone, viz., between Wolverhampton and Stourbridge, there
are about 100 blast furnaces in work, producing nearly 500,000 tons
of pig iron annually, and it is admitted that the want of railway
facilities has hitherto greatly hindered the development of an im-
portant export trade from this district. The works at Droitwich and
Stoke Prior can furnish any quantity of salt. The carpet manufac-
tories of Kidderminster, the iron and glass works at Stourbridge,
Dudley, and their populous neighbourhood, will also supply an im-
portant amount of traffic, certainly far beyond that now carried on
with the present insufficient means of transit between those places
and the district to be affected by the proposed line.
The Hereford branch of the line offers to the agriculturists of the
counties of Hereford, Radnor, and Brecon the advantages of cheap
and ready means of access to their principal markets. It will be an
Important advantage to them to have their cattle, corn, hops, fruit,
wool, and other produce speedily and cheaply conveyed to the great
markets of Worcester and Birmingham, and the towns in the centre
of the great manufacturing population of Staffordshire and Worces-
tershire ; the advantages, too, will be mutual, as the line will afford
equal fabilitles for the conveyance of the mineral and manufacturing,
produce of the north to the rural districts.
The population of the districts affected by the proposed line, rec-
koning from Wolverhampton to Gloucester on the one hand, and
from the same place to Hereford on the other, is not less than
400,000; and from the position of the country traversed, the line
mnst be fed by all the railways constructed, or to be formed,
on either side. There can, therefore, be no reasonable doubt of the
Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester lino commanding a traffic so
considerable as to yield an ample remuneration for the requisite
capital. _ _

the usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
interest at 4 per cent. per annum on the deposits, and no subscriber
will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit of 21. 2s.
per share until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount
of his subscription. _

In.the allotment of the shares of the Company, a preference win
be given to parties locally Interested, and to the proprietors of shares
in those railways with which the present is connected and intended
to communicate.

Prospectuses may be had, and applications for shares may be ad-
dressed to the respective solicitors, or at the London offices of the
Company, 449, West Strand, London.
Infirmary-walk, Worcester, August 28, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SILtRES.

To the Provisional Committee of ilie Worcester, Hereford, and Glou-
cester Railway.
I request you will allot to me Shares in the above un-
dertaking, and I agree to take all such sharers, or so many thereof as
you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit, and to sign the Per-
liamentary contract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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