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London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT
RAILWAY COMPANY,
WITH A BRANCH TO GRANTHAM,
Capital, 1.000 0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Depositl2/. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct and Great Welsh Central Railways
The Right Bon. Lord Dunboyn-, director of the Harwich Docks, and
Birmingham and Centr4l Hng:and Railways
The Right 11011. Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormean, Antrim, director
of the London, Staines, and Ascot, and of the Reading and Reigate
Atmospheric Railways, &c.
Me Right Hon. Viscount Glands
the C'ount Batilyany, 5, Audley-square, director of the Liverpool
and Derby Direct Railway, &c.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless, :5, Jermyn-street, director of the Great
Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway.
The lion. Captain Percy Eva: p Freke, 3, Belgrave-square, director
of the Birmingham, Nottingharre Gainsborough and Hull Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curren-street, Mayfair, H. 111.
Civil Commissioner at the Cape, director of the Exeter, Dorches-
ter, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway, &c.
Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Chairman of
the Isle of Man Railway ; director of the Orford, Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway, &c.
Colonel Tomas Fitzgerald, Maperton, Somerset, Depti;;-Lieutenant
of Somerset and West Riding of Yorkshire
The Hon. George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, 1, St. Alban's-D;Zee,
and Oakflelds, Donegal, director of the London and Exeter Direct
Railway, &e.
Sir George Sartorius, R.N., Senior United Service Club, director of
the Dover and Bristol Itabway, &c.
Charles IlleAkien, Esq. conlojenee4ar,t- Surrey,Vhsineuen--tate
Lkensed Victuallers' and General Fire and Lhe Insurance ome
pony, and director of the Direct Western Railway, &c.
Major O'Doherty, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall
George Dowsing—Bruce, Esq. Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire ;
director of the Oxford, Werce.ter, and -Wolverhampton Extension
Railway
Major Hawker, 72, Baker-street, Portman-square, Chairman oethe
Jamaica North Midland Railway
R. Atkyns, Esq. Devonshire-street, Portland-place, director of the
Guernsey-pier and Railway Company, &c.
Wm. Tulloh Fraser, Esq. Gloucester-place.
Portman-square,
Thos.y d
pt oasrsk } and Bristol Rail-
,
Esq. 58, Porchester-terrace, Directors of the Dover
John Lowe, Esq. 26, No. folk-crescent, Hyde- I way, &e.
park,
Kensington, Lewis, Esq. Stratford-place,
W. Augustus Lewis, Esq. B.A. F.G.S. director of the Wolverhamp-
ton, Chester, and Birkenhead Railway, &c.
Challoner Ogle, Esq. 44, Eaton-place
James Lamb, Esq. 25, Hyde-park-square, director of the Grand
Trunk Railway, &c.
John Thorpe, Esq. Bloomsbury-terrace, Lower Broughton, Man-
chester
Charles Phelps, Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square
Henry Brown, Esq. Harleyford-place. Kennington, director of.the
Great Welsh C antral Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq. Laura-place, Bradford, Yorkshire, director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Hull and Holyhead
Direct, and the Liverpool and Derby Railways, &c.
John Thompson, Esq. TOttenitam, director of. the Southampton,
Peterstield, and London Railway
James Adair, Esq. director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway, &e.
PS et.t. ejr:resou'sgr,
Algernon W. Greville, Esq. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, director
of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, &c.
li.t
iGler ernovritl ioef Deaver, sq. i
director of
George Parbury, Esq. Mansfleld-honse, Russell-square,
Counties Union Railway, &c. usre
Captain Twisleton Graves, 49, Duke- t, St. James's, director o
the Leicester and Teen and Dove, NM time Direct Western Rail-
ways, &c.
John Chapman, Esq. Larigham-place, director of the Hull and
Holyhead Direct Railway
G. Gun Hay, Esq. 127, Sloane-street
Birmingham, and idland
William Sladden, Esq. Canterbury
John Rennie, Esq. 5, Lower Belgrave-street, Bel.
grave-square
W. Fechney Black, Esq. 10, Wilton-place, Belgrave-
square
Captain Strutt, Cranford-lodge, Middlesex,
Junc-
tion Railway Company
William Thomas Symonds, Esq. Thornton-heath, Croydon
of the Shrop-
squareEdward Sankey, Esq. Canterbury, director of the Metropolitan
C. M. Rigg, Esq. York-place, Portman- iDirectors Mineralßail-
shire
way
WO or Newcombe,
Colonel Cannon, oriental Club, director of the t. George's Point and
Calcutta Railway
B. W. Doyle, Esq. director of the Sheffield and Macclesfield Railway
Charles Owen Snow, Eeq. Lecke-hall, Cheshire
director of the
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq. Old-square, Lincoln's Inn,
Leeds and Carlisle Railway, &c.
Alfred G. Harris, Esq. 38, Alsop-terrace, New-road
•
William 'leery Burke, Esq. Tottenham
Edward F. Fin den, Esq. Southampton-place, Euston-square
George Fowler, Esq. Newington-place
Peter Paterson, Esq. Leyton, Essex
George Evans, Esq. 3icibury- terrace, Regent's• park, director of the
London and Exeter Direct Railway, &c.
John Thompson. Esq. Great Saint Helen's, director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Gip John Key, Bart. Alderman of London, Chairman of the Mauri-
tius Railway, and director of the York and Lancaster Railway, &c,
Captain Newton, It. N., director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c.
Jamee Tracy, Esq., dire for of the Harwich- Docks, and Birmloghani
and Central England Railway, &c.
John Blunt, Dl. director of the London Docks, and Reading and
Reigate Atmospheric Railway, &c.
John Bloor, Esq. Tutbury, Staffordshire, director of the Derby, Gains-
borough, and Great Grimsby Itallwey
Jeremiah Clark, Esq.
Rich, Wma. Johnson, Req. 1
Directors of the London and
Jolla Holfbrd, Esq. RuSholme-hall, Manchester Direct
Manchester,
I na"*aS Company
Johit Barg% Etat. Manchester, late j (Remington's)
Iloroughreeve,
Lewis Buekland, Esq. Avenue-road, Regent's.paeo
Capt. E. 11. Scott, R.N. direettle Of the Mt. Alban's and Ileftibrd
ExtenSioli 11411 Way companY
A. W. Hißary, Esq.
Edward Paterson,
Cadoganpacc,.Belgrave-square, director of
the London and Exeter, and of the Direct West-end and Croydon
Railways, &c. &C.
v 21, Northam to
William Jame! Isle, n-square, director of the
Southern Counties, and Bristol, Bath, and Dover Direct Railways
James Vickers, Esq. Mark-lane, director of the Jersey Pier and
Railway Company
Charles Smith Rayner, Esq. hew-green
Esq. Clayton
(With power to add to their number.)
exeltens.
Henrietta-street rcial
Bank ,
Covent-gard ofeLondon, 3, Moorgate-strest, and 3,
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Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., 27, Graceehurch-street
Birmingham:—Messrs. J. L. Moilliet and Sons, Birmingham and
London.—C omsne
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Directors of the
Reading and
Reigate At-
mospheric
Railway, Ste.

Esq. 7, TOkellhOUSC-yard
JOINT COLICITORS.
76, Cannon-street, (It
LOCAL AGENT—BirminhaTlL—w.ll. Peace, Esq.
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ENGINEERS.
Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E.
A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E.
ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR--E• N. Clifton, Esq. TOkEIIhOUSC-yard
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS —14'52.1. ,14410,7 6(!la Eindoll, 6, New
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Palace-yard

SECRETARY.--James Elliott, Esq.
Oillces of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, London.
PROSPECTUS.

town,The
This line is designed to open a direct communication between the
such
as advantagesß
towns of Birmingham and Boston.
hadmer.ived by a rich, progressing, and Populous
the great manufacturing centre of the
kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern
coast facing the Continent, and that point the nearest to it by geo-
graphical position, need but to be mentioned to be appreciated.
Birmingham. il 1 bg
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The namo of Birminglia rn speaks for itself; the capacity and
value of Boston As a come seri:lel port Is daily increasing, and re-
quires but little enterprise to• enable it to compete with some of our
best pors.
It Is proposed that th!s line: should commence at Leicester, where
it will form a continuation of: the direct line from Birmingham to
that town, and proceeding BY or near Melton Mowbray, Ccirby,
Folkenhain, and Donoington , terminate at Boston; thus affording a
direct communication betvree p B' rmingham and its important manu-
facturing districts—Rugby, the,''g rest centre of England, and Boston,
their nearest seaport, which el nentnally must command the traffic
of . the districts with which it is in connexion and the opposite
ports of the Continent: and al, p, without at all interfering with its
direct route, a branch will be f firmed to the large and influential town
of Grantham.
The country is easy, preser ifrig few or no engineering difficulties.
Another advantage held ' jut by this project is the improvement of
the harbour of Boston, w Lerch, it will be restored to that eminent
position it fornierly he', ,1.,
~ ji IpIA I g . tlm and harbours of, the
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kingdom. _ .
The usu power •fr"'

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