The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS OF THE

BRIGHTON:- TONBRIDTE WELLS,
GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL.
WAY, with a Branch from or near Wrotham to Chatham.
Capital 1,000,000!., in 50,000 Shares of 20!. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vie., c. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir John Key, Bart. -A-14erman, Director of the Exeter, Dorcher,

ter, and Weymouth Railway
John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend
Medhuret Troughton, Esq., Alderman bf Gravest).lcl
Thomas PaLister, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend
Mr. -- Tisdell,. Councillor of Gravesend
Jeremiah Rasher, Eeq., Roshcrville, near Gravesend
John Breugh, E,q., Herne Bay
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of tI e
London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay
W, A. Campbell, Esq., Wanstead-park
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, director of the Sou h
and Midlands Junction Railway
Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Abbey, Greenbithe, Kent
William Kuper, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great
Western, and South Western Railway
T. R. Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valleys,
and Macclestie!cl and Licl,fleld Railways
John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temp'e-lane
Edward Lacey, Esq., St. Paul's- churchyard, and Gravesend
Jonas Levy, Esq., 55, Tavistock-square
H. C. Leahy, St. James's square, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Brighton, and Great Welsh Junction Railway
R. H. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Montague.stree,, Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway
John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se-

♦ern Commission
The Hen. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the

York and Lancaster Railway
Edmund Pallister, E,q., Gravesend
S. Id. Powell, Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland

Junction Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq. 23, Bryanston.street, Portman.square
E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon
Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of the London and
Windsor Railway
J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton-street, Dorset. square
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir John Key, Bart. John Brough, Esq.
The Mayor of Gravesend S. H. Powell, Esq.
John Kerschner, Esq. William Kuper, Esq.
Walter White, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's.lane
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co , Charirsg.cross
At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneaux, Whitfield, and CO.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS— Sir John Macneill and James Thompson,

Esq.
ENGINEERS —B. Albano, Esq. M. T.C. E., and William Laxton,

Esq. C.E.
SOLICITOR—In London—George Smith, Esq. 24, Golden square.

LOCAL SOLICITORS•
Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town-hall, Gravesend

Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes.
The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail.
way to connect the Southern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways,
by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with
Tonbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton.
It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Railway
at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river by a steam
floating bridge to Gray.esend, passing by Wrotham to Tonbridge,
thence by the South-Eastern Railway to Tonbridge Wells, passing
Uckfield to Lewes, and thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, and
Hastings Railway to Brighton.
An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import_
ante of this railway, whether considered in a local or national
point of view, forming, as it will, a most useful chain of local
communication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it

passes.
If will bring the northern and eastern counties, the Mouth of
the Thames, and Ncrth Kent,l into direct communication, by way
of Brighton with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in cmjuction
with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the shortest
possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean.
By this railway the large population of the northeastern coun-
ties, numbering nearly two miliions, will have a direct and easy
Communication with the whole of tine populous and important
counties of Kent and Sussex, wiThout gin round to London, and
therebyi avoidi,g the inconvenience arising front the unconnected
Ines north and south of the metropols.
The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in
Cm" of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is
evident.

With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent
and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will
be eff'ctcd, and as such the protect has been reecived with the
moat distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the
principal proprietors along the line, and the corporation of Graves-
end have promised their entire sanction to, and still cordially
support it.

The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present
no difficulties to the formation of a good working line.
The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf-
ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large
ac'=s ion of valuable traffic carovit fail to be the result of th' in.
creased accommodation thus arardefl t 3 the public, and rendering
the undertaking cue of the most iirvrtant as well as, productive
lines of railway in that part of Vie country.
The Committee reserve power to themselves to form a branch
from Wrotham to Chathun.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of
Parliament to the amount of their subecriptions, and power will