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London, England, 1845-09-19 00:00:00

f-lIIEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND
GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, t
An extension of this line is under surrey, to connect it. with the
heart of the mineral district of South Wall. The project has been
7e,.2;lltered, MU particulars of which will appear in a few days.
WILLIAM I'IIOI7IIEIIOE, Secraary.
10, Old Jewry Chambers.

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AND LAN IL R RAILWAY.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney.
VICE-CuAtamAN—Sir Henry Webb, Bad.
ir Thomas Woollaston White, John Holmes, Esq.
Bart. J. W. Hamilton, Esq.
Philip Menry Howard, Esq., M.P. Richard Kelly, ESq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., John Learmonth, Esq.
m.r. John Manwaring, Esq.
William Bradley, Esq. Nathaniel Ogle, Esq.
John Chauntler, Esq. John Reginald Riddell, Esq.
Rev. H. R. FOwler A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.
Colonel Fitch foseph Underwood, Esq.
NOTICE.—The Committee of Management are proceeding with
the investigation of the applications for Shares in the Company, but
from the great number applied for, several days must necessarily
elapse before the allotment can be effected.
By order,
SAMUEL HOLDSWORTH, Secretary.
Palace Chambers, St. James's-street, Sept. 16, 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMEN P.
MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND
GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via BARNS-
LEY AND DONCASTER, commencing at Penistone Station at the
junction of the Sheffield, Ashton•under-Lyne and Manchester and
the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways. '
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(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,000/. in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2c.
per share in compliance with the standing orders of Parliament.

BANNERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Huddersfield—The
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Company.
ENGINEERS.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.—ACTING EIIGINEES.
W. Billinton, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield.
LONDON AGENTS.—MeSSr3. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Cbancery-

The object of the proposed line is to complete a direct chain of
railway communication between the Western and Eastern Coasts,
from Liverpool to great Grimsby.
It is intended as above stated to commence the line at Peniston
at the Junction of the Sheffield,.Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manches-
ter, and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways, and to proceed in a
direct course south of and near to Barnsley, passing thence through
or near to the extensive and inexhaustlide.coal fields of Wersberough
Dale, Silkstone, Cawthorne, Darton, Bretton, Billingley, and others
in the Barnsley District, thence continuing n a direct line throngh
or near to Wombwell, Dartield --(where it, will cross the North Mid-
land Railway), Thurnscoe, Path Swinton, Bolton, Ilickleton, Berm-
borough, Mextiorough, Conisborough, Sprotberough, Bentley, Don-
caster (where it will cross • the London .and York Railway), and
proceed through or near to Armthorpe, Cawtley, Brampton (with a
future branch to Thorne, and such further branches as may be
eventually determined upon), Auckley, Wroot (where it will enter the
Isle of ..kahtiline), and through or hear to Haxey, Epworth, Belton,
Butterwick, Owston, Messingham; and then terminate, in a junction
with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway,, at, er near Glauford
Brigg, thus connecting, by the construction of A new line of railway
of forty-six miles he length, or thereabouts (the entire line required to
bemade). The great manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural dis-
trlets of Lancashire and Yorkshire with Lincolnshire and the rapidly
improving port of Great Grimsby, so as to afford-the products of the
several counties a most direct course of transit, thereby also greatly
facilitating the introduction of foreign merchandise, and by this
means perfecting the channel of communication between the Irish
Sea and the, German Ocean. .
The existing routes are very. circuitous, so much so, that the pro-
posed line will effect a saving of about twenty miles, when compared
with the Manchester, and Leeds, and the Wakefield, Pontefract and
Goole Railways to Great Grimsby, and of about fifteen milei com-
pared with the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Great Grimsby
and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, and the relative distance
front other places will be 'proportionally shortened.
&Veral schemed are now before the public to connect, in the best
practicable manner, Keighly and Halifax with Huddersfield, so as to
effect a direct North'and South communication. When this desidera-
turn shall be accemplished, the proposed new, line; will, in' ddition to
the advantages before mentioned, form a grand direct railway com-
munication from Scotland and the Northern Counties, vii Hudders-
field, to the flourishing port of Great Grimsby, whilst the additional
traffic brought to bear upon the proposed line to and from the con-
templated new Staffordshire and Derbyshire Lines, by uniting with
the,Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway, at or near Holnilli•th, must
considerably enhance the value of the undertaking., ' •
Independent of the above, and of the superior advantages afforded
, by. the proposed line for the shipping of coal to the London and other
markets, a considerable augmentation of traffic may be expected
from the North Midland and the London and York Railways.
:The important and agricultural town and neighbourhood of Don-
,caster, hitherto comparatively isolated; for want of proper railway
accommodation, will, by the aid of the London and York Railway and
the proposed line, both passing through the town, be at once brought
in connexion with all the main railway arteries in the kingdom.
Vile value of the stock in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction
Railway must necessarily be greatly increased by the propesed.line,
, whilst the facilities given for the transit of goods front: Liverpool and
Manchester to Great Grimsby must eventuallrmatertally add to the
importance and benefit of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway.
The country through which the line will pass is admirably adapted
for carrying out the design of the promoters. Nothing beyond ordi-
nary engineering difficultles.is to be met with. A satisfactory survey
of the entire line, by the acting engineer, has already beeemade, and
the sections of the line are in course of preparation, so that there is
the utmost confidence that the scheme will be fully perfected in due
time for the approaching session of Parliament. . ' .
The number of Shares already subscribed for is very considerable,
and an early allotinen,t may' therefore be expected. • An influential
-Proyisional:Committee is now forming, and.theettries of. the:gentle-
' men composing it will shortly be publicly announced. In the mean-
time, further information may be obtained itom the Solicitors, at
whose Offices Plans and Surveys of the Lino are lodged for inspection,
and applications for Shares (in the forth given below), accompanied
with satisfactory references, may also he addressed to them, to their
London Agents, or to the fqllowingErokers namely, Messrs. Lloyd,
and Price, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardivell• and Sons, Manchester ;
Messrs. Wellbeloted,' and Co., Leeds ...Messrs, Garton' and .Wright.
Sheffield! Charles Claye, Esq., Halifax ; and Messrs. Wilson and
Hellawell, Huddersfield.
Huddersfield. Dept. 13,1845.