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London, England, 1845-09-15 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

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.

(Provisionally Registered.)

Capital 1,000,000/. In 50,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 21.
per share in compliance with the standing orders of Parliament.

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, 31ills, and Co. Huddersfield—The
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Company.
ENGINEERS.
CONSULTING ENGINEER,—ACTING EIIGINEER.
W. Billinton, Esq., C.E.
SoLicrrons.Hllessrs. Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield.

LONDON AGENTS.—Messrs. SudlOw, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-

lane.

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 inexhaustible coal fields of Worsborough
Dale, Silkstone, Cawthorne, Darton, Bretton, Billingley, and others
in the Barnsley District, thence continuing in a direct line through
or near to Wombwell, Darfield (where it will cross the North Mid-
land Railway), Thurnscoe, Wath Swinton, Bolton, Hickleton, Barm-
borough, Mexborough, Conisborough, Sprotborough, 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 tho
Isle of Axholme), and through or near to Haxey, Epworth, Belton,
Butterwick, Owston, Messingham, and then terminate in a junction
with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, at or near Glanford
Brigg, thus connecting, by the construction of a new line of railway
of forty-six miles in length, or thereabouts (the entire line required to
be made). The great manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural dis-
tricts 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 miles com-
pared with the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Great Grimsby
and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, and the relative distance
from other places will be proportionally shortened.
Several schemes 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-
tum shall be accomplished, the proposed new line, will, in addition to
the advantages before mentioned, form a grand direct railway com-
manication from Scotland and the Northern Counties, viA 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 n?ar Hollnfirth, 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.
The value of the stock in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction
Railway must necessarily be greatly increased by the proposed line,
whilst the facilities given for the transit of goods from Liverpool and
Manchester to Great Grimsby must eventually materially add to the
importance and benefit of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway.
The country through which the lino will pass is admirably adapted
for carrying out the design of the promoters. Nothing beyond ordi-
nary engineering difficulties is to be met with. A satisfactory survey
of the entire line, by the acting engineer, has already been made, a
Id
the sections of the line are in course of preparation, so that,th.e n dues
the utmost confidence that the scheme will be fully perfecte I
time for the approaching session of Parliament.
The number of Shares already subscribed for is very
.siderable,
and an early allotment may therefore bc expected coAn influential
Proyisional Committee is now forming, and the iitmes of the gentle-
men composing it will shortly be publicly announced. in the mean-
time, further information may be obtained from the Solicitors, at
whose Offices Plans and Surveys of the Line are lodged foarecinosmpepcatnioiend,
. - on the form given below),
and applications for Snares
with satisfactory references, may also be addressed to them, to their
London Agents, or to the following Brokers : namely, Messrs. Lloyd,
and Price. Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell, and Sons, Manchester;
Messrs. Wellbeloved, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Garton and Wright.
Sheffield I Charles Claye, Esq., Halifax ; and Messrs. Wilson
Hellawell, Huddersfield. - and
Huddersfield, Sept. 13, 1845.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and
Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company.
I request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in
the above undertaking, and I 'agree to accept the same, or any less
number that may be allotted to me, and also to pay the deposit of
2/. 2s. per Share thereon,sand to sign the Parliamentary Contract and
the Subscribers' agreement.
Dated day of , 1845.
Name (In full) • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Residence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Trade or Prottssiort
Referenoe.• •.••...... .

OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE,
Adjoining the County Fire Office.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
' The Right Honourable the Earl of 3lexborough, Dover-street, Picca-
dilly, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down )3111.
Londonderry
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square,* Director if
the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Company
The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall
Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Ca-
vendish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway
J. It. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salts
bury
John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the
County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway
The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros-
venor-square
r Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, and of Exeter,
Director of Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, War-
wick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and
Dublin Approximation Railways •
G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu-
tenant for Dorset
Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street
Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long Or-
chard, Tipperary
Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, _Nutley House, Devon
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood, Di-
rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and
Birkenhead Continuation Railways
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
The Honourable Henry Saville, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
W. L. Pope, Esq, Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Birming-
ham •
•
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey
E. S. Blundell,- Esq., 18,. Lower Seymour-street •
John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brentford.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
George Adam, Esq., White Lion Court, Cornhill
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Direc-
tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Bir-
kenhead Continuation Railways
George Evans, Esq., bury-terrace, Regales Park
Colonel Sir Frederick liankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven-
dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor-
deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of
the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Midland
Railways
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South-

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ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, and of Exeter,
Director of Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, War-
wick and Worcester, Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ay-
proximation Railways
(With limited power to add to their number).
ENGINEER.—John Brathwaite, Esq., C.E., 4,Trafalgar-square.
BANKERS.—_Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Coruhill.
SOLICITOR.—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers,
Regent-street.
Prospectuses, with plans of the line, and form of application for
shares, to be had at the offices of the Company, 52, Regent-street.
Dear Waterloo-place, and of the local Solicitors and Stockbrokers.

HROPS HIRE MINER AL RAILWAY,
► y forming, in conjunction with other existing and projected
lines, a direct communication between Liverpool, Manchester, Shef-
field, York, and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

(The Deposit is in accordance with the Standing Order of the House

of Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Adams, Mr. Sergeant, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park
Baddeley, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Newport, Salop
Barker, Joseph, Esq., Macclesfield
Batson, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Great Bridge, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the South Staffordshire Railway
Beddoes, Thomas, Esq., Cheney Longueville, near Church StrettoU-
Beamish, Captain, Kensington-square
Blanford, Wm., Esq., Chairman of the Thames Plate Glass Company
Bloor, John, Esq., Merchant, Tatbury, Suffolk
Bull, Joseph, Esq., Snedshill Iron Works, Shropshire and Manchester
Burroughs, Captain, Davies-street, Berkeley-square
Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direct London and Manchester Railway
Clemson, John, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester
Cochrane, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Woodside Works, Wolverhampton
Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton
Davies, Captain, J.P., Brynglass, Montgomeryshire
Davies, Thomas, Esq., Ironmaster, Goldshill, near Ironwoods
Deakin, Addison, Esq., Eccleshall
Downes, Thomas R. C., Esq., Munslow, near Ludlow
Edwards, Edward, Esq., Iron-bridge, Shropshire
Evans, Theme-, Esq., Clun, Shropshire
Ewbank, Captain, Junior United Service Club
Eyke, William, Esq., Stanton, Shidhall, Shropshire
Firmstone, John Parsons, Esq., Ironmaster, Highfields Works, Bil-
ston, Director of the South Staffordshire, Worcester, and Shrews-
bury Junction
Fisher, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Bilston, Staffordshire
George, William, Esq., Weston, near Much Wenlock
Griffiths, Samuel, Esq.. Wolverhampton
Gregory, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Westbromwich, Staffordshire
Hall, Joseph, Esq., Ironmaster, Bloomfield, Tipton,- Staffordshire
Holcombe, Charles T., Esq., Valentines, Ilford, Essex, Director of
the Anglo-Belgian Railway
Humphreys, William, Esq., the Rectory, Berrie*, Welsh Pool, Mont-
gomeryshire
Humphreys, John, Esq., Berriew, Welsh Pool, Montgomeryshire
Humphreys, Rev. Thos., Bishop's Castle
Jones, Robert, Esq., Strefford, near Church Stretton
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk
Law, William, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square
Leicester, Rev. Charles, J.P., Whitton Hall, Salop
Loveridge, Henry, Esq., Wolverhampton
Luckock, the Rev. T. G. M., Parsonage, Great Birr, Staffordshire
Marston, Francis, Esq., J.l'., Aston, llopesay, Salop
Miller, Ambrose, Esq., Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford,
Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Millington, William, Esq., Ironmaster, Stimmerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire
Minton, John, Esq., Cloebury North, Shropshire
NeweJinbc, J. W., Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, and Langley-fields
Ironworks, Dawley, Salop
Plowden, William, Esq., Plowden-hall, near Bishop's Castle, and
Rotherwas, near Hereford, J.P., Shropshire
Price, Francis Lysons, Esq., William-street, Blackfrlars, Director of
the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company
Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinualrd, Parliament-street, Director of
the Direct London and Manchester Railway
Ridge, Joseph Charles, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Rigg, Charles M., Esq., York-place, Portman-square
Riley, W. T. Esq., Ironmaster, Millfeid Works, Bilston, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway
Ryton.William, Esq., Wolverhampton
Shaw, William, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Company; Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Simms, William, Esq., Snedshill Ironworks, Shiffual
Silvester and Jackson, Messrs., Ironmasters, West Bromwich
Slade, the Rev. H. R., D.D., Wolverhampton
Smalman, John, Esq., J.P., Quatford Castle, Bridgnorth, Director
of the Worcester and Crewe Railway
Spicer, Charles W., Esq , Portman-square
Summers, Thomas, Esq., Much Wenlock
Swift, Henry, Esq., Eccleshall and Wootton
Swift, George, Esq., Elford-hill, Eccleshall
Thacker, Robert, Esq., Wolverhampton
Tildesley, James, Esq., Merchant, Willenhall, Staffordshire
Tudor, Samuel, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Hull, Director of
the Derby, Stafford, and Uttoxeter Railway
Turner, Henry, Esq., Brewood Hall, Staffordshire
Underhill, George Lees, Esq., Ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Wainwright, Richard, Esq.' Stanway Court, Church Stretton
Webster, Frank D. Bullock, Esq., Director of the New River Com-
pany, Brentbridge House, Hendon, Middlesex
Wells, Thos., Esq., Ironmaster, Moxley Steel Works
Weyman, Tomas, Esq , Parslow Hall, near Clun, Shropshire
Wilson, Lieut.-General Sir John, K.C.8., Bolton-street, Piccadilly
and Llanfylln, Montgomeryshire
Wood, Peter, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Wood, William, Esq., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Wolryche, Stephen, Esq., J.P.,Quatford Villa, near Bridgnorth,
Salop L(With power to tdd to their lumber.)

BANKERS.
Messrs. Jones, Loyd and Co., Lothbury,
Messrs. Cockburns and Co., 4, Wititehall,l London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Bllston District flanking Company, Wolverhampton
The Shropshire Barking Company, and its Branches.
ENGINEER IN ClllEF—Samuel Clegg, Esq., C.E.
ACTING ENGINEER—Francis Briscoe, ESQ.
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SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
E. Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. G. and R. Anderson, Ludlow
Thomas Weyman, Esq., Ludlow
John William Butterton, Esq., Eccleshall
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., jun., Newport
Edward Edwards, Esq., Church Stretton
Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston, Staffordshire
Philip Octavius Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle
Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Clun and Bishop's Castle
Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton
T. R. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham
William Harding, Esq., llurslem, Staffordshire Potteries
SEcanmitr—George Bond, Esq.
Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, London.

The line of Railway intended to be constructed by this Compa fly
will commence at or near Norton Bridge (a station of the Grand
Junction Railway), in the county of Stafford, and proceed from
thence by Eccleshall, Offiey, Norbury, Forton, Newport, Donning=
Wood, Oaken Gates, Priors Lee, Stirchley, Dawley, Madeley, and
Iron Bridge, to Coalbrook-dale ; there, crossing the proposed " Wor-
cester and Crewe Railway," it will pass along the slope of Wenlnck-
edge, by Rushbury and Eaton-under-Haywood, to Wistanstow, in
the county of Salop, where it will run into, and form a junction with
the " Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales Railway."
The line will traverse a rich mineral district, and will have a secure
and extensive traffic by the carriage of coal from the Shropshire
coal-field, to a depot proposed to be formed at Wistanstow, for the
supply of South Shropshire, part of Radnorshire and ifloerdre,fordshire,
and also from whence it will be conveyed by the
Shrews-
bury,ne
neighbouring
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counties,r North Wales
calculate the extent to which this traffice may
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coal-field, and the important manufacturing
and railway communication thus op
will be reduced one-half at
and Llanidloes, the price per entuecitb;tltvoewelmat
the SNlireowptsol,ni
onmanufacturers, now depend-
those places, and the flannelsw y the cheapness of coal, be
ing upon water power, 11
n and to extend their trade in proportion to
enabled to employ
its due weight
to any other. The vitness the bad effects upon the trade, caused
tile great demand importanceisvthelacih'exlstsoffotrhitsliseubl
jVeecltshwirllalnhialevies, in preferenoe
with those who so often _
by the stoppage of the mills from an insufficiency of water.
amount of tonnage is now incurred by the Shrop-
A considerable
shire fronmasterF,, or the conveyance of lime-stone from the neigh-
?hood of Much Wenlock to the furnaces, by several transits of
landiu
and water carriage, whereas the proposed railway will convey
it direct into the heart of the works, and at one-third of the expense.
By its junction with the " Grand Junction" and the " Hereford
and Shrewsbury" Railways, this line will form a direct communica-
tion between Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, York and Hull, and
Swansea and South Wales.
As a junction line alone (connecting as it will such important rail-
ways), a large passenger traffic may be depended upon, but when it
is consideNd that the centre of the line passes through a densely-
populated mining district, and the remainder through a thriving
agricultural neighbourhood, it will be obvious that a sufficient local
traffic exists to pay a highly remunerative interest on the amount of
capital required to be embarked.
The line, which will not interfere with any property of an orna
mental or costly character, will not exceed 46 miles in length, and
will be constructed at much less than the average cost.
Such important local co-operation has been secured, that no oppo-
sition is anticipated or can be sustained against the measure.
The liability of the Shareholders wzil be limited, by the Act, to the
amount of their subscription to the capital stock ; and power will be
applied for to allow interest at the rata of four per cent. per annum
on the amount of the deposit, and upon the fhrther calls, from the
date of each payment until the opening of tha line ; and the find
deposit being paid, a further call will not be made until the Act •
Parliament shall have been obtained.

;Maps of the line, prospectuses, &c., are to be obtained from MO
Secretary, the solicitors, the local agents, also the brokers, Messrs.
Mievilic and Co., Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, London ;
Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool; Messrs. Green and Old-
ham, Manchester ; Nathaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. &Imes
and Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; J. Senior, Esq.
Sheffield; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hull; to whom applications
for Shares (which must be on printed forms) mayb e addressed ; ant
it will be necessary that reftirew pe made to a banker su►lelter, as
portion of responsibility..