The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

J. L. COTTON, Secretary.
34, Gracechurch-street, Oct. 10th, 1845.
PRELIMINARY ANNOCNk)EMENT.
HALIFAX AND HULL DIRECT, AND
HULL, GOOLE, GRIMSBY, AND YORK AND NORTII
MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION (at or near Methley) RAILWAY,
via, Hipperholme, Lighteliffe, Cleckheaton, Gomersal,
Birstal, Batley, Hanging Heaton, Ardsley's, Lofthouse, Stanley to
Methley, with a branch to Wakefield.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600,000/. in 30,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.2 r. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Orders cf
Parliament.
The object of this railway is to provide for the above-named
densely populated and rapidly improving Manufeturing towns and
villages, a dirict and convenient outlet towards York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby-, and the east.
In conjunction with the West Riding Union, Liverpool and Leeds,
and other projected railwaes passing through or near to Halifax, the
undertaking now proposed will form one of the most direct railway
ccmmnnications, as well between the ports of Liverpool and Hull, as
between the great manufacturing districts of the west, and the agri-
cultural districts of the East.
The population residing upon and along the proposed line between
Halifax and Methley exceeds 200,000 persons, who are chiefly engaged
in manufacturing and mining industry—to such a community a rail-
way passing immediately through it, giving a nearer mid more con-
venient access tl the Irish Channel and the Gelman Ocean and the
intermediate places, is an object of importance, and promise?, when
accomplished, to confer great advantages on the inhabitants, and to
secure to the shareholders an ample return for the capital invested.
By this project the valuable coal fields of Wike, Batley, Soothill,
East and West Ardsley, Lofthouse' and iStanley (containing
the well known " Bowling and Low Moor," " High
.Moor,"
and Stanley Main," beds which re now wrought to a ton-
sidcrable extent), will be famished, for the first time, with
the means of cheap and convenient railway transit tollalifax
and other large towns westward, and to York, Selby, Hull,
Goole, Grimsby-, and various other places eastward. The celebrated
flagstone quarries of Northowram and Sou thowram, which annually
export from Goole, Selby, 'and Hull, to the eastern coast of England
and to the Continent, large quantities of flag., paving stones, and
slates, will supply this line of railway with a considerable amount of
traffic.
By means of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway, now in course of
construction (which the proposed line will intersect at Batley), the
Inhabitants of the clothing districts previously mentioned will hay
the readiest access to the Leeds markets and to the country north
of Leeds.
By a junction at Cleckheaton with the Bradford and Dewsbury
branch of the West Riding Union Railway the present scheme will
give to Halifax and its populous neighbourhood the shortest railway-
communication with Dewsbury, and in connexion with other pro-
' posed lines with Barnsley, &c.
The same junction at Cleckheaton will give to Bradford and the
important iron works at Wibsey, and Low Moor, the nearest route to
Selby, Hull, and the east ; consequently this railway company may,
fairly lay claim to carry a large portion of the raw material and ma-
nufactured productions, used and produced in that densely-peopled
portion of Yorkshire .
From a point on the main line at or near Soothill, it is intended to
make a branch to Wakefield of about five miles down the Alverthorpe
Valley, there to join the Pontefract and Gook, the Wakefield branch
of the London and York, and the Midland Railways. It is evident,
therefore, that the proposed railway and its intended branch (aided
by the West Biding Union line between Bradford and Cleckheaton)
will provide the shortest route hitherto projected from Halifax and
Bradford to Wakefield, Doncaster, and the eastern counties.
From Halifax to the proposed juncton at Methley the distance will
be about nineteen miles ; and, although the undulating surface of the
country along a portion of the line will occasion some expensive
works, yet the proposed capital is amply sufficient to complete the
whole el the railway, with its branches and stations. And the pro-
moters are enabled to state most confidently that the through and
local traffic in passengers, goods, and minerals, will be such as to
render this undertaking one of the most profitable in the kingdom.
The gradients are not unfavourable, there are no rivers or canals
to cross, and the project does not interibre with ornamented property
of any kind.
The Parliamentary survey is now in progress and will be redly
for the forthcoming session.
The liability of the shareholders will be limited by the Act of Par-
liament to the amount of their shares, and power will be taken to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all deposits and calls from the time of
payment to the opening of the line.
A more enlarged prospectus, together with the names of an influen-
tial Provisional Committee, will shortly be published; in the mean-
time, every information may be obtained of the solicitors, to whom
application for glares may be made in the subjoined form. A pre-
ference will be given in the allotment to landowners on the line and
parties locally interested.
By order,

CARR and NETTLETON, Solicitors to the Promoters,
Wakefield, October 8, 1845.
To the Provisional Committee of the Halifax and Hull Direct
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each in the above proposed railway, and I undertaks to accept the
same, or any less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, furl to pay, when required, the
deposit of 21. 2s. pet share.

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