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COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM,
AND LEICESTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
COVentry,
This Railway will connect Leicester. Birmingham, and
red
by the nearest practicable route ; and was proaris malty ..registe
and capital subscribed long before any ether scheme was projected
for supplying railway accommodation to the district. _-
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Present Propeetet bistance
distance. distaltet• saved.
leicLeke.gatteerr t.
o Coventryßirming ...
Birmingham 4931 .
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This line will commence at Or near the arral.On station
the Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near
of
tle • manufacturing localities of Narborough, Sapcote, Earl
*beton. Barbage. and ;Hinckley, through a distria most favourable
. for engineering purpose., to a junction with the Trent Valley at Nun-
eulg, thence it continues nearly due west to the Whitacre station of
thaeMirmlngharn and Derby Railway, and south-west by-Bedworth
to the Coventry station of the London and Birmingham Company.
The line will communicate with the Swanaington Railway either by
'meows of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, or
of a separate branch to be fbrraed by this Company ; thereby opening
the entire of the Leicestershire coal-field to the counties south-east
of Leicester.
The Directors, fbr the last few months, having Used their best
exertions fbr the interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now
that the surveys, plans, and other arrangements are so far advanced,
to acquaint their shareholders with the position and ereapects of the
undertaking.
The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, '.which received the
Pliavourable report of the Board of Trade, and •:vas before Parliament
• likst session, forms part of the present pr jjected plan for connecting
Leicester, Coventry, and Birmingham.
The Directors have, by personal Inspection, accompanied by their
engineer, satisfied themselves el the remarkable facilities presented
by the district for executie2 the greater part of the line ; and from
eareilai investigation the, "Directors have the pleasure of informing the
shareholders that th_ls undertaking eannot fall to prove a profitable
investment if stirported by local traffic only, and with the certainty
that a through traffic from the eastern and western lines, combined
with tie great advantages allbrded by the junction with the Trent
Valley for the transit of goOds to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire-
land, and the United States, its importance cannot be over estimated.
From the extent of population accommodated by this railway
—tem the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of
the Midland Counties—from the vast mineral resources of the dis-
tricts traversed, and from its
edablished, position in regard to other important,
and projected railways, the Directors feel confident that
it will be amply remunerative to the Shareholder, and highly advan-
tageone to the public.
The capital has been subscribed, and the Parliamentary deeds have
been executed, and the preliminary survey completed.
A list of a new and highly influential local direction, and a map of
the Ulm, will be pUblished in a few days.
By order, H. CASSIA, Secretary pro tem
&Dem aurch-eourt, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845.
WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER,
T AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND
JUNCTION,
Being no extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000. shares of 20/. each,
Deposit 21. 2s. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
tidor Beresford, M.P.
Wiam Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Clta!:rman of the Welsh Mid-
, land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Dire.7',..or of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and 31Miands' Junction Railways
David K. Ross, Esq. Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Maneile'....ter, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John E. "Seattvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham rextension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Juneti'..n Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
air George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of
the Chester and Mancheater Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Hir William Wynn, Ifaesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Sir John Key, Rart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir Twy-eden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of
Dear.' Railway
Williurn Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester aid Birkenhead Continuation,
and London anti Greenwich Railways, Ike. Itc.
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Thorne) Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinnersiey Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Make- Oliver Lindarn, E.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys-
twith, an Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junctiou Railways
Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James. Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal. and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Major Jelf Shari, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Richard Wl',iiam Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
shestee, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
• tar of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Direetor of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Rirmitezharn Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
war,
Wille.am Shaw. Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
lag Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
0. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Itritannia Life insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South andillidlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsiey, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq.. Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
L'fo Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
et the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and south and Midlands' Janction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Jute-
Von, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Bardeen, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. R. Cross, Req.. Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
:John Blackburn, Esq , Leeds
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York, and
Leo s Railway
J. 1). Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Faq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Dorneas, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. W. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdalalquare,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director. of the South Wales P:Liway
Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Nesstre 'and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director 'of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway .
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon P:ouse, Molksham, Wilts, Director of
the South and Midlands unction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward :Esq.. Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House,
Stratford-on-sew ea, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Renew
Joaeph Brook, Bee, Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
bewS'ottrY, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, anti South and Midlands' Junction Railways
'George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradibrd Union Rail-
way. anti Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Ilitchins, H.E.LC.S., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxfbrd, and South Midlands'
Junction Railways
laxnes Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the Smith and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Eel., Therlee-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Cleobury, Esc., Ziackville-street
Major Walker, R. 11.. Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Fredertek James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Plrector of the Trent Adler Continuation, and South and Mid-
lands Junction Railways
J. W. R. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
South aud Midlands' Junction Railways
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Underwood, Req., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham ES:tension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' 4-Anctlon Railway
W. A. Hill, E.i., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Rloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
c 2 the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
bf the South anti Midlands' Junction Railway
%khan% Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
I;enieStny, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Rithleay
captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
mid Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jertlein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex a 4 Suffolk Railways
Thomas och, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
I. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Req., Director of the Leicester and Redford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
IL W. Wood, Req., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
William Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingridgo, Esq., Thuriow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormee Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
Klngsmill Grove Key, Esq.
?hornets Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Jeeseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and
Routh Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, l'ortman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair
Admiral J. Aysecnieb, Prospect-place House, Sontharaptort,:Direetor
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton, and
eolith and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubbs, tastweil House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate Of the
County, anti Director of the South and Midiands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and aildlauds' Junction Railways
T. G. Newbury. Esq., Director of the Leiceater and Bedford Railway
Henry Gerard Ohrly, Vag • Director of the Tr
Lion, Valley Continua-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, rah-actor of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Tirocke Walhancke Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Leo, Esq., Director of the Readirg Railway
Henry Ravage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T. Thornten, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
Barnum—The Commercial Bank of London.
Cowsuerreo Exorstrea—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., F.R.S.
ACTING ENGIN-ERR—William Mellinger Higgins, Esq., C.E.
SoLiciroa—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
LOCAL AGENTS.
It appearsthat England will be divided longitudinally by four great
lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
lase and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
rapid and ready commtutiestilet with the intermediate dLs-