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DOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY,
in continuation of the South-Eas:ern Railway, from Reigate
to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001, In 75,000 shares, of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.

PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor
The lion. William M. Dawson, I'arkstone Lodge, Poole, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the lion. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director of the East and
West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland
Railway
Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern,
Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancas'er
Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick
A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors a the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, miugham Railway
The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover
The Worshipful the Mayor of Bath
Henry Itincher, Esq , the Mayor of Devizes
Daniel Nazar, Req.
Edward Poole, Esq. Town Councillors of Dover
William Henry Payn, Esq.
Edward Seward, Esq.,
The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches-
ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Itusland-hall, Lancashire, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. It. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood. house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkehire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire. the Midlands-aud Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Bonito!), Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
field, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor Houae, Chiswick, Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham
Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and
Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Ciode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Christopher Bentham, Rag , Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool, Preston, and "North Union Junction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Kept
Railway
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War-
wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chatnier, Haikin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for
Wilts and Somerset
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railways
Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austins, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter,. Dorchester,
and Weymouth Coast Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarvon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton andCheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Captain GustavusVians, R.N., Ileadly-grove, Reigate
John Finnis, Esq., merchant, Dover
Charles Fitzgerald. Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the
London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham.
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking. Brighton, and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate fur Wilts
William Gambier, Esq.,Sacombe-park, Herts
Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's
George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich-
field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York-
shire Railway
Joseph Gill, Esc; , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds,Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq , Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
Lewis Hoffman, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South
Staffordshire Railway
James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead, and
Portdynliaen Railways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham
Kersington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wis-
beach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways
,Tohn Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Lur ton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayor of Leeds, Direc-
tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 95, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Trine, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel-
tenham Direct Railway
James Joseph WSwiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., 3tancetterhouse, Atherstone, Director
of the Tean and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq. Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, amid the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace, Director of the Di-
',Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Peppercorne, Esq , Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West
Midland Railway
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham Railway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway
William Spoorer, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichel, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York,
and 31idiand Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., Bunton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq.' Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
JuactionJtailwaya
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, ant Poole Railway
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
James Upfill, Earl , The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor of the Birmint,hion, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, and
the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Dolman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Major White, Fall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways
William Royden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the
Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Nottingham and
South Staffordshire Railway
Smith Whylock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover
John Wheelton, Esq., Mcopham Bank, near Tonbridge, Director of
the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby
Railway
J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcomhe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra-
goons,Director of the Direct Western Railway-.
Lodge Murry Murry Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, Coventry, Director
of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway
Edward Knight, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grind Junction
and Midlands' Union Railway
William Henry Skeltou, Esq., Shadwell,'near Leeds
-Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, Maidstone,
Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway
Thomas Brame% Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway
llenry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-perk, near Bristol, De-
puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestcrsshire, and magistrate of Gloucester-
shire and Bristol.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
ACTING ENGINEER—Edward James Maude, Esq., c,E,
BANKERS.
London—Diessrs. Rogsrs, (Riling, and Co. ; the Union Bank
Bristol—Stuckey 'a Banking Company
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover—Messrs. Latham'and Co.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
EdWIII Smith, Esq. and Messrs. Lewis and ford, London ; Edward
Burges, Esq., Bristol.

Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and
the north of England.
From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always
be the most accessible point of the English coast; an expeditious
communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours,
and iuland,•towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily hr.regarded
as a great national advantage. .
Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais,
Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers
already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im-
measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol-
land, and Germany are fully brought into operation.
In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having
selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay
thorn of 1,500,0001., it cannot fail of becoming a place of the
greatest resort for the shipping and commercial interests of the coun-
try, and perhaps the most important town on the southern coast.
In every point of view, therefore, whether for national security, or
for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping
and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheaper, more conve •
nient, and accelerated intercourse between this great port and all
parts of the kingdom, must be sufficiently obvious. This the pro-
moters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway,
which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing the
chain of railway communication tpon the narrow gauge between the
south•eastern coast, and Bristol and the Western, northern, and mid-
land counties.

The line will commence at the terminus of the South:Eastern Rail-
way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorking, Godalming, Farnham,
and Odiham to the Basingstoke station, on the South-Western Rail-
way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow-
bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Bath, and pursuing its ceurse
through the Somersetshire coal-field, throwing off a branch towards
Radstock into the heart of the collieries,:terminate in a junction with
the Bristol and Birmingham Railway at Bristol.
By its course through Dorking, Godahning, Farnham, and Odi-
ham, it will supply the railway accommodation so much required by
those towns, and connect the rich and fertile hop districts of Surrey,
Kent, and South Hants, and afford the means of conveyance of their
produce to the great Hop-fair at Weyhill.
By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Raiiwa ," it will afford to the inhabitants of Reading, Oxford,
and to the midland counties generally, the best and shortest route to
the Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brighton, and the
other watering-places in Sussex and Kent ; and a vast increase of
visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior
of England by the accommodation and facilities for travelling which
will be accomplished by this and the proposed railway from Reading.
By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at Basingstoke,
and of the proposed Manchester and Southampton Railway further
west, the present line will connect Dover towards the south, with
Southampton (the packet station for the East and West Indies, &c.),
Gosport, and Portsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham,
Gloucester, Worcester. Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also
with Shrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and in fact with the whole
of North and South Wahl.

At Basingstoke, also, this line w'll join the proposed London, Salis-
bury, and Yeorii VatlwnY, and throw open to Dover and the
uili-
eastern counties the populous. a,,d wealthy cities of Salisbury and
Exeter, the rich agricultural counties of Wilts, Dorset, Som et,
and Devon, the p...rts of Plymouth, Devonport, and Falmouth, and
the mineral regions of Cornwall.

To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns
in the vicinity of its course, the benefit which this line will confer
cannot be too highly estimated; to the coal districts of Somerset-
shire it will open large and constant markets both in Bristol and to
the south and east, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con-
necting its ehminel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro-
viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to
them the whole of the trade between the South-east of England and
the west and south of Ireland, It seems difficult, considering the enor-
mous traffic which must necessarily flow to that city, to conceive a
project more deserving of their cordial support.
In the memorable Parliamentary contest last session between two
great rival companies, the Legislature for the first time admitted
that princip!e of competition with existing, interests which was
claimed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for
the protection and benefit of the public ; and It is with no fear of
the resu't that the promoters of the present undertaking invite
attention to one distinguishing feature it contains, viz., that by the
construction of the line from Bristol t Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel
will be avoided, and a new and independent communication will be
established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the
narrow gauge than by the devious course of the Great Western, inde-
pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at
Hungerford-bridge, and the convenient access to the Thames both
there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station
of the Great Western at Paddington.
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In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this
Company to have the construction of that portion between Reigate
and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South-
Eastern Company)—the country through which it passes does not
present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any resi-
dential or ornamental property be interfered with except under-Au
imperative necessity.
A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the line, and
the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course
of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests
and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the
shareholders.
The capital proposed to be raised is 1,500,0001., in 75,000 shares of
20/. each, with a deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, to he paid on allotment.
Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest, at 4/. per cent.
per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the opening of
the line, and no subscriber shall be answerable for more than the
amount of his deposit until the Act has been obtained, and then not
beyond the amount of his subscription.
The Subscribers' agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will
be ready for execution, and the scrip issued immediately upon pay-
ment of the deposits.
Applications for shares must be addressed to the Secretary, at the
Offices of the Company, N 0.12, Gray's Inn- place, only ; but no appli-
cation will be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to a
member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the
Company, or a banker.
Copies of the prospectus and form of application for shares may be
obtained at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorn, Old
Broad-street; Mr. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Wil-
liams, Throgmorton-street, stock and sharebrokers, London.
FORM OF APPLICATION' FOR SHAIt ES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Dover and Bristol Raftway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
In this Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller
number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon,
and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when required.
Dated this 1845.

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EXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management beg to Inform the public that the
shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they
(the Committee) intend issuing the Letters and Allotments as soon as
the requisite examination has taken place into the application for
By order,
Oct. 2, 1845. FRANCIS CREW, Secretary.