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London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

THE SHEFFIELD, WORTLEY, SILK-
STON, AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 500,000!. in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 2!. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROTIsIONAL DIRRCTORS.
J. W. R. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford Railway
William Alexander, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, and the Midland and Thirak Railways
.;oseph Austin, Esq., Headingley Hill, Leeds, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways
W. P. Bradshaw, Esq., Woodthorpe Hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield
Charles Bamford, jun, Esq , Hull, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
William Broadhurst, Esq., Westfield.terrace, Sheffield
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Alexander Brown, Esq., Headingley, Leeds
Isaac Burkill, Esq., Highfield-cottage, Beeston, Leeds
Wm. Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
RoLt. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York
iesrallway
Joseph Clarke, Esq., Sherburn, Ferrybridge
John Priston Cutts, Esq., Sheffield
John H. Coates. Esq., Wakefield
John Alcock Dixon, Esq , Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Director
of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Dswsiin, Esq, Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough,
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Boston Railway
John Egginton, Esq., a Magistrate of the Bin'ough of Hull
Thomas England, Esq., Headingley, Lee. s, Director of the West
Junction and the Leeds and York Railways
Rob, rt John Ellershaw, Esq., Leeds
Ephraim Elsworth, Esq., Sandford-house, Kirkstall, near Leeds
George Earle, Esq Hull
Atm Fawcett, Esq., Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Wake-
field and Harrogate Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
and the Direct Western Railways
Gresh im, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lincoln
Augustus G. Greaves, Esti., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester Railway
deseph Gill, Esq., Potter Newton, near Leeds
Frederick Hattersley, Esq., West House, Bradford
Robert Herries, Esq., Leeds
William Wilkc3 Hill, Esq.. Bccston, near Leeds
John Hall, Esq., Hull. Director of the York and Hull, and East
and West Yorkshire Junction Railways
William Hutchinson, Esq , Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the
Brest Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Junction
tailway
Henry Paul Harwood, E;q., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Wake-
field arid Harrogate Junction, and the Direct Western Railways
J Hastings Ingham, Esq., Martin house, near Skipton, a Magis-
trate of the %Vest Riding
John Heard, Esq , Alderman of Nottingham. Director of the Lon.
don and Nottingham Railway
I homes Herbert, Esq., Alderman of Nottingham
I Lomas Holmes, Esq.. Hull
Henry Hubberaty, Esq., Hull, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Juno Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways
Thomas Jessop, Esq., Claremont-plaee, Sheffield
Sydney Jessop, Esq., Manchester
Charles Locke, Esq:, Shapethorpe-house, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield arid Harrogate Junction Railway
James Martin, Esq., Wakefield
James Joseph M'Swiney. Esq., Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Director
of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, the Rugby, Derby,
and Manchester, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
Hebert Mitchell, Esq., the Mount, Sheffield
Joseph Ogdin March, Esq., Beech-grove, Leeds
George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the
Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, and the Bradford, Wake-
field, and Midland Railways
Sidney Roberts, Esq., Sheffield
John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefild, Director of
the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and the Leeds, York,
and Midland Railways
E. W. Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln
Edward Rook, Esq., King-street, Leeds
James Itettit, Esq., Leeds
Edward Spence, Esq., Tilworth, near Hull, Director of the York.
shire and Glasgow and the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick
Railways
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheriff and Alderman of London
Edw. Sidebottom, Esq., Picdwick-hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield
Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmatitorn lodge, near Chesterfield, Di-
rector of the North Derbyshire Union, and the Sheffield, Bux.
ton, Leek, and Potteries Railway
Richard Sully, Esq , Sandon-sslace, Sheffield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York,
stud Midland Railways
Thomas Burdett Turton, Esq., Alderman of Sheffield
John Tall, Esq., Hull
John Taylor, Esq., Belle Vue.trrace, Hull, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
George Turton, Esq., Bagden-lodge, Clayton West, near Hudders.
field, Director of the Bristol and Dove Railway
Joseph Turton, Esq., Brook-hill, Sheffield
Edward Vickers, Esq., Firs-hill, Sheffield
Benjamin Vickers, Esq., West Clare, Sheffield
James Wall, Esq., Osgathorpe-hills, Sheffield, a Director of the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Joseph Wood, Esq., Sandal. near Wakefield, a Director of the
Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway
George Walker, Esq., Osgathorpe Cottage, Sheffield
George Wall, Esq., Woodside, Sheffield •
Rev. George Atkinson Walker, Alverthorpe, near VVakelield, Di-
rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, the Leeds, York,
and Midland, and the Gloucester, Aberyatwith, and Central Wales
Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Esicisera-IN-Ciiixe.—John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq., F.R.S.,
London.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Upton and Clapham, Leeds
Messrs. Smith and Wightman, Sheffield
BANIRRS.
London : Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
Leeds : Messrs. Beckett and Co.
Sheffield : The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company
Wakefield : Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Barnsley The Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company.
SECRETI ay.—Henry Jubb, Esq.
The main line of this railway will be about fifteen miles in
length. Commencing at the Wortley Station, on the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway, it will pass through the town of Silkston, arid
near to Dodworth, accommodating the whole of that valuable
mining district with the most ready outlet for its celebrated coal to
all parts of the kingdom. It proceeds by Darton, Chapelthorpe,
and Sandal, to Wakefield, where It will joint the Leeds and Man-
chester, and the newly projected railways to Leeds and Harrogate,
and to Pontefract and Goole.
The inhabitants of Barnsley will also be accommodated by a
branch to that town, from the main litre, giving them direct and
easy communication with the north and south.
The distance from Leeds to Sriellield by this line, and its con-
nexions northwards, will be only thirty-two miles ; try the present
touts it is thirty-eight miles. The distance from Wakefield to
Sheffield by this line will be only twenty-three mites ; it is now, by
way of Nortnanton, thirty-one miles ; and by way of Oakenshaw,
twenty-eight miles, between two and three of which are by omni-
bus. Besides this saving of actual distance, the tedious stoppages
at Masborough and Normanton, the delays of which are often equal
to twenty miles of travelling, will be avoided,
A careful survey has been made, by an experienced surveyor,
who reports that the line from Wakefield to Siikston will
run with easy gradients nearly on the surface of the ground for
the greater part of the way; and that the only work of any mag-
nitude will be a tunnel, about six hundred yards long, at Woolley-
common, which will occasion in the approach to it from Wake-
field an ascending gradient of 1 in 108. The works between
Silkston and Wortley are of a heavier character, but in no
part will the gradient be more than lin 112. The ruling
gradient will be about 1 in 180.
This undertaking, in connexion with other railways, is in-
tended to accomplish the following very important objects :—First,
a direct line of communication between London and Lefts, the
Northern Counties and Scotland. Secondly, the opening of the
extensive and valuable coalfields of Silkston, Dodworth, Barns.
ley, and the adjacent districts, to the manufacturing and other
towns of Yorkshire, the ports of Hell, Selby, Goole, Great
Grimsby, and Boston, and also to the Metropolis, and the Mid-
land, and Western counties. Thirdly, the accommodation of the
inhabitants of the places through which this railway will pass,
with those facilities of conveyance for passengers, of
which, from the almost entire absence of good roads,
as well as railways, they have hitherto been destitute.
An examination of the Map will show how well these objects
will be attained by means of this railway. At its northern termi-
nus, Wakefield, it will be connected with the Leeds and Manches-
ter Railway, continued to the Midland and the lines extending
from it to the north and cast, with the projected Wakefield and
Harrogate and Wakefield and Leeds lines (the latter a branch of
the Leeds and Dewsbury from Churwell), and through it with
the Leeds and Thirak, the Leeds and Bradford, and other railways,
to the north-west and Scotland. And at Wortley, its southern
terminus, it w.llise connected with the Sheffield and Manchester
Railway, the projected Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsbv,
and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire lines, the Sheffield and Great
Grimsby Railway, the projected Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway,
and the various new projects from Sheffield to the northern parts of
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the west.
The quantity of coal which this railway will make directly
accessible to all parts of ,he kingdom may be e:tunated from the
following statements given In evidence before a Comtnitteee of the
House of Commons:—The township of Barnsley conraitis 2,010
acres of coal bed, Barughs 5,080 acres, Dodworth, 8,‘219 acres,
Silkston, 4,040 acres. The quantity or coal in the Sirkston main
alone is thirty-seven miVions three hundred and tourreen thou-
sand tons, and the quantity likely to be raised from the entire dis-
trict through whirls the railway will pass, is not less than seventy •
eight millions of tons.
Pits may be sunk close by the railway, and will require mils
an engine to lift the coals perpendicularly, and pour them into the
trucks.
In addition to this, an opportunity will be afforded of turning
to better account a bed of ironstone underlying a apace of 5,080
acres.

The construction of this railway would so cheapen the transit
of coal to York, Hull, and all intermediate towns to the north
and east, and westward to Glossop, Ashton, Winchester, Stock-
port, and other towns in Cheshire, that the owners of this valu-
able mineral would be able successfully to compete with those of
Durham and Lancashire.
The inexhaustible mineral traffic which will thus b: developed
—the means Which this railway will afford of improved transit be.
twe, n Leeds tnd Sheffield, so long a desideratum t• he inhaaitarits
of these, the two largest towns in Yorkshire--tile orning of direct
railway communication with Barnsley. from which that important
manufacturing town has hither o been exe,uded—its eon.
flexion with the line projected to *tarn gate, whither
so many thousands of visitors airmail), resort in pur-
suit of health and pleasure, constitute a summary of