The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-11 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION,

CHAIRMAN—W. HUGHES HUGHES,
.Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c.,

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Alderman
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JOSEPH BROWN, ESQ.

Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart

Charles Georke Knox, Esq.

G. N. Wright, M.A.
William Bean, Esq.
Richard Carpenter, Esq.

William Law, Esq.
Stephen Lewis, Esq.
William Shaw, Esq.

John Churchill, Esq.
F. J. Hall, Esq.
Frederick Hewitt, Esq,

Robert Watkins, Esq.
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—The Commercial lank, Lothbury
Derby —The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale —Messrs. Clement Royds and on
Blackburn—Tate Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and M.R.I.A.
ENGINEERS.
William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MOSSTS. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
SoLIcITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghaf•street,London
LOCAL AGENTS.
J. Cressy Hall, Esq., AliYeton, Derbyshire
George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire
SECRETARY—Stillingfleet Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally un-
provided with railway accommodation, into the populous ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from .Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Derwent, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddieworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Hyfteld, and Duckenfleld, in reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud-
dersfield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.

It is unnecessary to state heiv the character of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and Rossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vicinity of Ilaslingden.
A branch will be thrown eat of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and Bacup, to Todmorden.
The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mineral produce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk
lines of railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals—
the Cromford—the Manchester and sh: Meld—the Huddersfield—the
Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.
To the innitiplication of Advantages which intersecting railways
anti lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
tion in the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conclude that an ample remuneration for vested capital will be ob-
tained.
BY MR/ Wing tllO viii Of dyfelei which, in this induct', nal In