The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

THE MIDLAND, BARNSLEY, SHEFFIELD,
DEWSBURY, LEEDS, AND BRADFORD RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Managing
Director of the Liverpool aid Leeds Direct, Director of the Direct
Western, J.P. for the East Riding, and Borough of Hull
John Broadhurst Tootai, Esq., the Cliffe, Wakefield
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, De-
puty Lieutenant, and J.P. for the East Riding, and for the Bo-
rough of Hull, Provisional Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway, &c.
Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Provisional Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
William Gordon, Esq., M.D., Hull, Provisional Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool Direct Railway
George Wilson Addison, Esq., Bradford, PrOvisional Director of the
West Yorkshire, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Rail-
ways, &c. &c.
George Addison, jun., Esq., Provisional Director of the Leeds Direct
Railway
J. E. Sichil, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Provisional Director of the
• Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and the Leeds, York, and Midland
Railways
John Dougell, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield
Edmund Eastwood, Esq., dyer, Rashcliffe, near Huddersfield
Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, near Huddersfield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
John Allison, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Dransfield, Esq., Mold Green, Huddersfield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction; and
the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railways
Albert Pilling, Esq., merchant, Huddersfield
Joseph Norton, Esq., merchant, &c., Clayton West, near Hudders-
field, Provisional Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate ; Hud-
dersfield, Halifax, and Bradford; Bristol and Dover; Keighley,
Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction; and Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railways
Abraham Eastwood, Esq., Rashcliffe House, Huddersfield, Auditor
and one of the Executive Committee of the Huddersfield and Shef-
field Junction Railway Company
John Richardson, Esq., Harrogate, Provisional Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate ; and the East and West Yorkshire Rail-
ways, &c.
George rearnley, Esq., M.D., Grove-house, Dewsbury
Henry Hemingway, sen., Esq., M.D., Dewsbury
Henry Hemingway, Jen., Esq., M.D., Dewsbury
Paul Fletcher, Esq., Dewsbury
Thomas Hadfield Gloyne, Esq., Dewsbury
George Hall, Esq., merchant, Aldam's-house, Dewsbury
Thomas Newsome, Esq., merehant, Dewsbury
Mark Hirst, Esq., manufacturer, Dewsbury
J. J. Mallinson, Esq., Dewsbury
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Lancaster, Provisional Director of
the Manchester and Wigan, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds,
York, and Midland Junction Railways
William Mann, Esq., Spen Cleckheaton, Provisional Director
of the Midland ai Thirsk Railway; the Leeds, York, and Mid-
land Junction ; and the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railways
James Smith, Esq., M.D. Ossett
William Wood Wiseman, k:sq., M.D., Ossett
George Mitchell, manufacturer, Ossett
Thomas Mitchell, Esq., manufacturer, Ossett
Francis Sykes, Esq., Liversodge, near Dewsbury, Provisional Direc-
tor of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, aid the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
John Mitchell, senior, Esq., Ossett
Abraham Burnley, Esq., merchant, Batley, late Provisional Direetor
of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway
Joseph Jubb, senior, Esq., merchant, Batley
George Sheard, Esq., merchant, Batley, late Provisional Director of
the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway
Joseph Jubb, junior, Esq., manufacturer, Batley
Charles Day, Esq., Hirst House, Batley
John Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley, Provisional Director of the
Midland and Thirsk Railway
Jacob Burnley, Esq„ manufacturer, Batley, and Manchester
Samuel Burnley, Esq., manufacturer, Batley
Benjamin Senior, Esq., merchant, Batley, Provisional Director of
the West Riding Junction, and Midland and Thirsk Railways
Joseph Rowley, Esq., worsted spurner, Ossett-cum-Gawthorp, near
Dewsbury
William Rowley, Esq.' Ossett
Thomas Hirst, Esq., Batley
James Geo. Atkinson, Esq., M.D., Wakefield, Provisional Director
of the Stockton, Northallerton, and Leeds Railway
Rev. G. A. Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Provisional Di-
rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway
Frederick Stokes, Esq., Wakefield
Foster Shaw, Esq., merchant, Huddersfield
Lewis Alexander Shepherd, Esq., ironfounder, Dewsbury
William Cardwell, Esq., ironfounder, Dewsbury
Mark Day, Esq., manufacturer, Batley Carr
John Lister, Esq., Thornhill
Henry James Smith, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
James Hemingway, Esq., merchant, Dewsbury
George Blakeley, Esq,, merchant and manufacturer, Dewsbury
Robert Blakeley, Esq., merchant and manufacturer, Dewsbury
(With power to add to their number).
N.B. The names of other Provisional Directors will be added
from Barnsley and Sheffield, &c., &c.
BANKERS.
The Huddersfield Banking Company, Dewsbury and Huddersfield.
The West-Riding Union Banking Company, Dewsbury, Hudders-
field, and Wakefield,
The Leeds and West-Riding Banking Company,teede and Bradford,
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, London.
Messrs. Masterman, and Co. London.
glicipara—Henry Emanuel Scott, gen..

SOLICITOR*.
Charles Robert Seholes, Dewsbiny
Henry Brodribb, 6, Child's-place, Temple, London.
LOCAL Aozsix—W. C. Mence, Esq., solicitor. Barnsley.
PABLIAMENTAUT AGENTS—Mcisra, Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palacqqard, Westminster.

The object of this ltue is to make a short and direct communication
between the populous manufacturing and iron and coal districts of
Brudford, eleckheaton, Heckmondwike, Batley, Dewsbury, Barns-
ley, and Sheftledd, with the wool and agricultural districts of Lei-
cestershire, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Gaiasborough, Lincoln, &c., and
the port of Boston.

The line will arm a junction with the West Yorkshire, the Leeds
and Dewsbury, and the Manchester and Leeds Railways, at Or
near Dewsbury; and thence proceed by Darton to Barnsthy, and
Wombwell, to or near to Wath-upon-Dearue, near Svrtiton ; where
it will join the North Midland Railway, and also :fleet the proposed
line to Doncaster, Davi`tri, Ciainsborough, CZYI "Lincoln ; and form a
comnlilntoatian bY the exisiinX lines With the port of Boston and the
south ; and by the prejeeted hnd Barnsley Junction Railway ;
it will Wee forma direct line to Hull, and by the Leeds and Thirsk
Railway, a direct lint to the north;
The line will also be contlitned from Barnsley by Tankersley and
Ckapeltown to Sheffield,
A branch will run to the various Ironworks and Colliery Rail-
ways, near Wentworth ; and another branch will run to the Silk-
stone Celliery Railways.
A • direct line of communication will thus be formed between the
Important manufacturing places of Bradford, Bierley, Cleckheaton,
Gomersall, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Batley, Dewsbury, Ossett,
Thornhill, Darton, Barnsley, Ardsley, and Wombwell, to Wat:_
upon-Dearne Doncaster, Lincolnshire, the port of Boston, net the
sotAth, and also to Sheffield ; affording the best possible aceommodh-
tion to the rich iron and coal districts of Silkstone, WOrsbelnugh,
Tankersley, Chapeltown, and Sheffield; whilst the web)... and raw
materials seed le the manufactures at Bradford., Dar', Earlsheaten,
Qleekheaton, Batley, Heckmondwike, pkwabur.,
and Barnsley, as
welt as corn and cattle, will be reeefeed by le shortest and most di-
rect line of transit from, ;,efeestersb_t•e, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire,
and the southern P(krtit Which 8117,1 y these commodities, in exchange
for the mautlfAetnteli, eeal., and minerals of those districts.
facie Blust eTident. tb every one, on looking at the map, that this
114 imPeretlyely called Ar, as up to this period the only rail-
way communication for the supply of wool and other goods, and the
conveyance of passengers to Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Batley,
Clecltheaten, Bradford, and the intermediate places (each containing
ii buMeroue manufacturing population), has been the North Midland
line by Norreanton—a very circuitous route, as apphars by the fol-
lowing statement of distances of those places :
Relative distances from Bradford and Dewsbury to Barnsley and
Sheffield, by the present route, and the proposed line :

From Bradford to Barnsley by Brighouse, and thence byMiles.
the Leeds and Manchester line, about .. • • • $5
By the proposed-line from ligradforsl, via Cleckheaton and
DewahUry, to litarnaley .• .• .• •• §0

Being sav4eg of .. 15
Front Dewsbury, Batley, &e., by the present route to Barnsley
about 83
By the proposed line 11

Being a saving on 23 miles of no less than .. .. 12
The present distance to Sheffield from Bradford Is about 51 miles;
by the proposed lino it will be 31,—0r a saving of 20 miles.
From DelTStylv by the present route Sheffield is distant 40 miles ;
by the proposed line it will be 21,—0r a saving of 19 miles.
The same observations, as to saving of distance, apply to London
and all intermediate places ; and it is important to observe that either
by the present North Midland line, or by the projected London and
York Railway, this proposed line will be the shortest and most direct
route from. Bradford„ Dewsbury, &0., to London.

It may also ha uoileckt, that Worn Swinton to Leeds by this project
and the Leedst AO Dewsbury line, the distance is much less than by
way of Ife.rmanton,
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The following table, taken from the Parliamentary Census of 1841,
will give sores idea of the populous Districts through which the line
Paseell lg

POPULATION OP PLACER (IN 1841), ON VIZ LING or ROAD.
Bradford parish ........ 105,2571Earlaheaton Soothill .. • •
,458
Bradford ..... 34486kOssett ........ ......•• 6,078
Bierlsy ...• •••••• • • • • • 9,,sl2jThornhill parish .. • • •r• 7,301

Pudsey ••..• • .. •
Cleckheaton,
8,030:E. arnsley .... ...• 12,310

Hookwnthrike
LtierwAlge

3,s37lArdslay • • •
s,9BBlWombwell , ..
Wa!h-upon-Dearne pa-

Dewsbury parish .• •• .. Z 1,636! risk -.. ••.. • • ..... 8,910
Dewsbury •• •• •••• • • ,‘ );9600 Sheffield .......... •• • . 63,136
The tragle. through this district is immense.
♦ careful Imreey et the line sad breeches has been made by the
englnem and the scheme will be submitted to Parliament at the ap-
preAching session.

i"Ower-is resorved to continue the line northward to Bradford, if
the Company should think iit.

Provisions will be inserted hl the Act of Parliament to allow Inte-
rest at 4 per cent. on the deposits and calls, front the passing of the
Act, until the opening 04' the railway; and for limiting the share-
holders' liability tit iIIVA aaaottut of their subscriptions.
Power will atao, be applied fe: in the Act (sad In the meantime is
reserve AN) ttbie Managing Committee), to abandon or alter any part of
the an,4 to make branches ; and, also to eater into any arrange-
me.n,ta with any other company or companies,
Mere,/ portion of the SAW* Will be reserved for the landowners
and others having local iAtekests; and such companies as this line
May form jtmotiopg witlh or with whom this Company may be con,
netted,

APP*4lOlis or &MK.% (in the form given below), and Jb pro-
asPcal4es, 'My IDA %a to to the. Solicitors, ard also N Mr. Charles
Dyson, Shavithlo,ker, hoar-lane, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilma and Hello-
Welk MaivOirokers, Huddersfield ; and Mr, .IQ/soa Brooke, Broker,
Pkwalktry.

FORM OF APPLICATION" FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committse of the Midland, Barnsley, Qtaied,

Dewsingy, Leeds, and Bradford Railway.
Gentlemen,—l Ytquest you to allot me shP.:eeS of 201. each
in the ahove Company; and I hereby agree to sCcept the same, or
any legs number, and to pay the deposit of 21, 2s. per share thereon,
and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required.
Dated this day of

1845.

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