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London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

3XFOR D, NEWBURY, ANDOVER, MAN-
CHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Esq., and resolTed

Sheriff, and 'resolved-2

That the Committee appointed at the meeting of the Council
on the 30th July last, to secure the particular interest of the town
of Southampton, be requested to promote the same object wills
respect to the propesed railways, viz. :

The 31ay‘r
Mr. Le Feuvre
Mr. Bernard
Mr. Mabson
Mr. Davies
Mr. Coxw,ll
It was movod by liEsrav Wootbanxic, Esq. ; soconded by Dr. ORE,

Mr. Stubbing
Mr. J. Lanke.ster
Mr. F. Cooper
Mr. Spooner
Mr. Tucker.

itnei resoiYed--:

That the thanks of this Committee arc due, and are hereby pre-
sented, to Ralph Etwall, Esq., M.l'., Chairman to the Oxfurd, New-
bury, Andover, Manchester, and t3outhampton Junction Railway
Company, for the manner in which he has explained the objects of
the Company. ' _ .

CHARLES E. DEACON, Town Clerk

r HE OXFORD, NEWBURY, ANDOVER,
lL MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON JUNCTION
HAILWAY COMPANY.

(Previs'onally Registered.)
Capital, 600,000/.. lu 30,500 shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairman—Ralph Etwall, fisq., M.P. for Andover
' Deputy-Chairman—Richard Birley, Esq., Manchester
George l'eel, Esq. Lankester, Esq.
John Thomas Price, Esq. Richard Jordan, Esq.
George Royle Chappell, Esq. Henry Buchan, Esq.
George Laishley, Esq. John ROCYCS, Esq.
Robert Ogden, Esq. Henry Clark, Esq., M.D.
Thomas Hamilton, Esq. John Parsons, Esq.
Jonathan Beaver, Esq. William Etwall, Esq.
Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for shares in this
Company win be received after TUESDAY next, the 7th October.
By-order of the Committee of Management,
J. L. FERNANDEY, Secretary.
11, Bridge-street, Westminster, 30th Sept., 1845.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION
AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY,
Forming a Direct Communication between England and Belgium,
and Holland, and the Rhine, from the Essex coast, with a Bran ch
via Tilbury, to Gravesend.
(Registered Provisionally, pursuant to the Act of Parliament.)
Capital, 550,8001., in 22.000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Loudon, Vice-Chairman of
the York mid Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Rugby,'
Warwict, and Woreeste; Railway
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.B.
John Anderson, Esq., Princes Park and South Castle
William Ashcroft, Esq., The Willows, Bury, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, and Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and
Manchester Railway
Charles Richard Bigg, Esq., 19, Bryansten-square
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies
Edwin Cadwin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Great Western and
Isle of Ely Railways
Captain Carnegie, Director of the London and Hounslow Railway
Company
John James Cavan, Esq., 7, Charles-street, St. James's-square
John Chauntler, Ysq., Friday-street, London, Director of the Chelms-
ford and Bury Railway
Frederick George Cox, Esq., Doctors'-commons, and Stockwell
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer Lodge, Regent's Park, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Ladbrook-terrace, Bayswater '
Miles Dormer, Esq., 51, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Director
of the LATIL Belfast, and Ballymena Railway Company
Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., Royal Artillery, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester
Colonel George. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's Park
David Fitzgerald, Esq., Travellers' Club
Rev. H. R. Fowle,, 7, Manchester-square
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Bandon and Bantry Railway
William Garron, Esq., merchant, Great George-square, Liverpool
Matthew Gill, Esq., Knaresbororgh, Yorkshire
Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Ttan and Dove Valley Railway, and of the British
Mutual Life Office
F. W. Hamilton-, Esq., 50, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the Sheffield, Nottingham and. London Direct, and the Burton-
on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway
John Lawrence Harris, Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry
William George Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
T. Charles Harrison, Esq., 81, York-terrace, Regent's Park
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tam-
worth Railway Company
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Chelmsfbrd
and Bury Rail ,vay
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street, Director of the Isle of
Man and Direct Western Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., Swinshead Abbey, Lincolnshire, Director of
the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Railway Company
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New Roes, Carlow, and Kil-
kenny Railway
William Kemp, Esq., Telgn Villa, Teignmouth
George Laurie, Esq., Talavera-place, Broughton, near Manchester
John Manwaring, Eeq., Eagle Hall, Pately Bridge, Yorkshire, Direc-
tor of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
John Nixon, Esq., Lloyd's
Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, near Manchester, Director of the
Direct Western, and Direct London and Manchester
The Mayor of Nottingham
Nathaniel Ogle, Eeq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham
Apeley Pellatt, Esq., Holland-street, Itlackfriars, and Staines, Direc-
tor of the Richmond and Staines Railway
‘William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Direc-
tor of the Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Railway
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth, the Direct Western and Tring, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Itallways
Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Bryanston-square, Di-
rector of the Direct Western Railway
T. Ridley, Fsq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Lincoln and North-
ampton Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster
Railway
Henry Savage, Eeq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of the
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Julian Skritie, Esq., Lenstield House, Cambridge, Director of the
Cambridge and Lincoln Railway
Timothy Steward, Esq , Heighten Lodge, near Norwich
Thomas Tebbutt, Esq. Plate-terrace, Rushohn, near Manchester,
Director of the Rugby and Manchester Direct Railway
William Alexander Thomas, Esq., Maunden, Essex
Joseph Thomsson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Edward Threlfall, Esq., cotton-manufacturer, Manchester
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Park, Director of the Leedi
and Liverpool and Direct Manchester Railways, and the Com-
mercial Bank
S. P. Wald, Esq., Birkenhead, Cheshire
Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta House, Worthing, and Lower Brook-
street, Grosvenor-square
Major White, Pall-mail, Director of the South Midland Railway
Robert Vaughan Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-
square
W. A. Wilkinson, Etc/.
H. Woodhead, Esq., 1, James-street, Adelphl, Landon
William Wright, Esq., 8.A., Great Portland-street, Portland-plaee
Sir William Wynne, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
(With power to add to their number).
• COMMITTER Or MANAGEMENT.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart. John Holmes, Esq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., Herbert Ingram
11. P. Jahn Nixon, Esq.
William Bradley, Esq. A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.
Frederick George Cox, Esq. Robert A. Riddell, Esq.
Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. W. Alexander Thomas, Esq.
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq.
John James Cavan, Esq. Willlain Wright, Esq.
Miles Dormer, Esq.

zwaniimits.

John Gibbs, Esq.

BANXERS,

Arthur Dean, EN,

Condom—The Commercial Bank, Lothbul7, and Henrietta-street
Romford—London and County Bank.

soLiciToas.

,mlth, Laurence Pouniney-place
Pountney-place, London,
MMeesssarsrs.. CPlerainitilellrflanteldt' Westwood,wood, Gray's Inn-square
LOCAL Acerrr —North Surridge, Egal, ROMfOrd.
SECRETARY—R. Causton, Esq.
Temporary Office, 5, Laurence •

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This railway will form a junction with the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, Lear the important market town of Romford, in tssex, and
proceed from thence, by way of the populous agricultural districts of
llornchurch, Upminster, Cranham, North and South Ockonden,
fiLt Raleigh, ilasley, Leigh, Eastwood, Rochfort, and
Prittlewell, to the agreeable and much-frequented watering-place of
ettetiVrohn, nu liduelrpshierym?, llormien. Stanford, Baal!den, Pitsey, South Ben-
Southend.

Independently of its numerous local advantages, it will open a
nearly direct communication between the Essex coast and many of
the most important places in Holland and Belgium, and more par-
ticularly with llamburgit, the Rhine, Ostend, Iliddlsburgh, Antwerp,
Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.

The extraordinary facilities of intercourse and communication
which will thus be provided will form a most important source of
revenue; and it is intended that a branch line shall be hereafter
formed from Orsett, by Baker's-street, Chadwell, Thurrock, and
Little Thurrock, via Tilbury, to Gravesend, which cannot fail to pro-
cure a large amount of traffic, and will enable parties to proceed
from London to Gravesend in less than an hour !

.ienthend Is. situated at " the mouth of the Thames," and by
means of a pier, is accessible to steam-vessels, at all tithes, for Land-
ing and embarking passengers and general merchandise, and the
construction of this railway cannot nail to establish it as a packet-
station of the highest importance to Belgium and Holland as well as
to Ent;land..

The value of this line to the shipping hitereets of the City of Lon-
don can scarcely be overrated ; it will afford a ready communication
with all vessels entering or departing from the mouth of the Thames ;
and by enabling persons to travel between the metropolis and South-
end in one hour only, will expedite the delivery of the foreign mails
by the space of three hours, and enable passengers to avoid the
tedious :navigation of the river, and the numerous inconveniencss
attendant thereupon. -
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The advantages which the Government must derive from the for-
mation of this railway are obvious, and the proposei line is warmly
supported by the principal landowners, it being an established fact,
that railway communication considerably enhances the vahic of land.
The distribution of coal throughout tha southern portions of the
coanty of Essex and other localities more inland will form an itn-
portant item of revenue, as will the carriage of Purfieet lime far
building and agricultural purposes. The great fisheries on the Essex
eoast will also form a considerable source of profit, and an immense
number of persons will avail themsqlves of the means of this railway
to go to and from the metropolis and the following places, via.,
Gravesend, Southend, Sheerness, Berne Bay, Margate, and Ram,
gate. It is also Important to observe thut by the aid of the Graves.
end and. Rothester, and the proposed Rochester and Maidstone Rail-
ways, this line will also provide a valuable medium of communica-
tion between the centre of Kent and London and the *aster* coun.

The engineers of the line have reported " that neither tunnels
nor ligaVy embankments, nor large excavations will require to be
made on any portion of the proposed lime ; that it Is wholly free
from engineering difficulties, and may be constructed at a compa-
ratively small cost." he promoters of this railway have great
pleasure in stating that " The Eastern Counties Railway Company,"
in a lettr to the Kolicitors of tills Company, dated 9th June, 1845,
have signified " that, in the event of the proposed line being con-
structed, they will be very happy to co-operate in affording it all
the usual facliities." The Chelmsford and Bury Railway Company
have also expressed their willingness to co-operate In the under-
taking.

A comparative statement of the distances of the following places
from London, and the time required tor transit wager the present
mode of travelling by steam-vessels, and of that by the proposed
railway, is subjoined :
PREOENT MODE, DT lITEAM-VESSELE

Milos. Hours.
From London to Southend .............. 44 .. 4y,
61 "
Sheerness ...... 50 ..
60 "
Herne Btu, 65 ..
Margate .............. 75 ..
" " Itamsgate ...... •••••• •• 85 .. 8
BY THE PROPOSED RAILWAY.

3111 es. Hours.
' From London to Southend ......
...... 33 .. 1
.4
" Sheerness •• •• 40 • • 1
" Herne Bay .......... 53 .. 3
" 3fargate 63 .. 4
41
" Itamsgate .............. 73 .. 5
" Gravesend, via Tilbury • • 25 .. 1
And a summary of the chief sources from which the traffic will be
derived.

lit. From passengers proceeding to and from the port of Lohdon
to the Continent and all parts of the world.
2d. From passengers proceeding ley steam and other Tessels, to
or from the port of London to all the eastern and northern ports of
the kingdom.
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3d. From passengers now proceeding by steam-vessels to and
from the port of London to Gravesend, Southend, Sheerness, Herne
Bay, 31argate, anti Ramsgate.
4th. The carriage of the mails, merchandise, luggage, and agricul-
tural produce.

Besides these sources of traffic, a direct communication will be
opened between the north-eastern counties and Herne Bay, Margate,
Rantsgate, and the ports of Ostend; ROtterdam, and the Rhine.
The local advantages, from which a large source of revenue must
also arise, are as follow:

let. The opening to the agriculturists of the districts lihich this
tail►ray will traverse, of a cheap and dlteet c,omulunleatiOnwith the
most important markets of the county of Essex.
2(1. The carriage of Ash to the London market and elsewhere.

Southampton, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1945.
At a meeting of The Esrough Council, held this day at the Audit
House, or Council Chamber, in Southampton,
WILLIAM 110''KE STEERE, Esq., Alderman, in the Chair;
It w.is moved by 1• EANCIS COOPER, Esq. ; seconded by A. ABRAHAM,

That the proposed Oxford, Newbury, _Andover, Manchester, and
Southampton Junction Railway, is calculated essentially to benefit
the town and port of Southampton, as well as to be of great public
advantage ; and that in the opinion of this Council the proposed un-
dertaking is dEserv.ng their utmost support.
It was moved by R. ZIABSON, Esq.; seconded by JOSEPII BALL, Esq.,