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DUDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Capital, 200,0001., in S, 00 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

The Right Hon. Lord ililll;mPaget,,ll.l:. Uxbridge-house, London
Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq. Leamington Priors and Hyde-hall,
Cheshire, director of the Leicester, Teen, and Dove Valleys June-
% ton, tho Worcester and Warwick, and other railways
Caleb Trotter, Esq. 10, College-green, Gloucester, director of the
Gloucestor and Dean Forrest, and Worcester, Hereford, and Glou-
cester Railways
William Mannix, Esq. M.D. Gorsbrook, near Wolverhampton, ma-
gistrate fur the county of Stafford
William Montague, Esq. magistral e for the city of Gloucester
Joseph Underwood, Esq. Blackheath-Park, London, director of the
Commercial Bank, London and Provincial, director of the Regent's
Canal, Direct Western, and other Railways
James Fisher, Esq., Bailiff of Dudley
James Caulfield Brown, Esq. the Vicarage, Dudley
Joseph Griffin Walker, Esq. nailmaster, Netherton, Dudley
Mr. Thomas Lester, wine-merchant, Dudley, director of the Dudley,
Madeley, Ironbridge, and Shrewsbury Railways
Mr. Thomas Henry isTerachcr, Dudley, director or the Leeds, Wol-
verhampton, and Dudley, Sheffield, Nottingham, and London
Direct, and Brighton and Cheltenham Railways
William Eagles Johnson, Esq surgeon, Dudley
Mr. George England, Hall-street brewery, Dudley
Mr. Thomas Wood, wine-merchant, Dudley
Mr. William Harrison. merchant, Dudley
Mr. William Fletcher, nailmaster, Dudley
Joseph Walker, E. merchant, Wolverhampton, director of the
Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton Junction, the South Staffordshire
Junction, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways
John Parsons Firmstone, Esq. ironmaster, Highdeld's works, Bilston,
one of the Provisional Committee of the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
John Neve, Esq. Iron merchant, Wolverhampton, one of the Pro-
visioaal Committee of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway
Ralph Gough, Esq. Gorsbrook-house, near Wolverhampton
John Murray Gladstone, Esq. ironmaster, Wolverhampton
Samuel Haines Esq. Chad-house, Edgbaston, director of the Leices-
ter and Birmingham, South Staffordshire Junction, Dudley, Made-
Broseiey, and Shrewsbury, and other Railways
J. M. Macdonald, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the Lancas-
ter and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London and Holyhead Direct, Shef-
field and Midland, and other Railways
W. W. Archibald, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Landon and Holy-
head Direct, and Lancaster and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railways
Charles Beaten, jun., Esq. Leek, Staffordshire, director of the London
and Manchester Direct Independent, and other Railways
Abraham Bauer, Esq. merchant, London, Manchester, and Hamburgh
Charles Naylor, Esq. Leeds
George Clements, Esq. Liverpool
John 13,yng Banks, Esq. Lansdowne-road, Stockwell, Surrey, director
of the Leeds and London Direct, the Cumberland Union, and the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railways
John Ratcliffe, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Halifax and Hudders-
field Railway
Francis C. Noton, Esq. Shrewsbury
John Jameson, Esq. merchant, St. George's-place. Brixton, Surrey,
director of the Leeds and London Direct, the Cumberland Union,
and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railways
George, Smart, Esq. merchant, Birmingham
Mr. Thomas Mercer, Prebend-place, Leicester
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
F. T. Elgie, Esq. Worcester
John Bolton, Esq. Dudley.
BANKERS.

The Commercial Bank of London, 3, and 6, Hen-
rietta-street, Covent- gardea
Birmingham—The Birmingham Banking Company
Dudley—The Birmingham Banking Company.
PROSPECTUS.
This line is intended to commence at the station of the Oxford,
'Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway at Dudley, and to run into
the line of the Grand Junction Company near to Birmingham, and
it is also prop,,sed to have additional stations (for local traffic) as near
the centre of each of those towns as circumstances will permit. The
line will traverse or pass in the immediate vicinity of Old-
bury, Wcstbromwich, Hand sworth, and Smethwick, and
in its course will afford railway accommodation to a
manufacturing and mining population of upwards of
a quarter of a million. The names of the places of the proposed
termini, and the above indication of the course of the intended line,
must abundantly satisfy every one that it presents the certainty of a
lucrative traffic, both in goods and passengers; and it is almost un-
necessary to speak further of so plain a necessity as that of railway
accommodation for such a district. The intended line will not in-
terfere with.any existing railway, but will materially extend the
usefulness of the several lines about to be connected with
Dudley, and afford to the populous districts, around the direct
benefits of fair and liberal competition in passenger convey-
ance, and in the transit of their industrial products to their
vripeipal markets. The number of omnibuses, coaches, and swift
canal packet-boats continually travelling between the termini afford
the strongest assurance of the prospect of a large passenger traffic,
while the bulky nature, and vast extent of the mining and manufac-
turing produce of the district equally vouch for that in goods, and the
whole leaves no doubt but that the financial returns of such an un-
dertaking must yield an ample remuneration for the capital expended.
In an engineering point of view, it has been ascertained that the
line is highly favourable, so that, altogether, there is probably no rail-
way now before the public so much entitled in every way to the
favourable consideration of the parties locally interested, or of capita-
lists in general. No further call (beyond the deposit) will be made
until the Act shall he obtained, and power will be applied for in such
Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on the deposits and
calls from the date of each payment until the opening of the line.
Applications for shares in the annexed form may be addressed to
the solicitors.