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London, England, 1845-10-02 00:00:00

PORT of WISBECH, PETERBOROUGH,
BIRMINGHAM, and MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 58. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his sal cription.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Humphery, Esq., M.P., Alderman of the City of London, Di-
rector of the Central Kent Railway
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of
Rastrick's Direct Manchester Railway
D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and

South Midland Railways
George Danby Palmer, Esq., magistrate for the county of Norfolk,
and borough of Great Grimsby ; Director of the Waveney Valley,
and Great Yarmouth, and the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby

Railways
Richard Hammond, Esq., magistrate for the borough of Great Yar-
mouth, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway
John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby
Railway.
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler. 7, 3lanchester-square, Director of the London
and Nottingham Railway
W. A. Campbell, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va-
lentia Railway
F. Barretto, Esq., Portland-place, London
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Joseph U.idersrood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di-
rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
W. Sr Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and
Gloucester Railway
Major White, Pall-mail, Director of the Northarnptom, Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway
Frederick White, Esq., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan
Junction Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London
John Inglis Jerdein, Req., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,

and Southampton Railway
Capt. Heathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company
11. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London
R. C. Colmar, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Henry Chator, Esq., Clcrvaux Castle, Darlington
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead
Railway
W. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dovor Railway
William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
George IL Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby
Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
RANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Wisbech —Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co.
Lynn —Messrs. Gurney, Cresswell, and Co.
ENGINEERS.
B. Albano, Esq., M Inst. C.E., and Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E.
Sommort—lngleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, Lom-
bard-street, London.
SECRETARY PRO TEM.—W. 0. J. Wollaston, Esq.
This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wisbech, by a
junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro-
ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the branch of
the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the
Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway,
forming a through line from Yarmouth, Norwich, Dereham, Swaff-
ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, td Northampton, Birmingham, Derby,
Nottingham, and the whole of the northern and western parts of
England. The entire distance being completed in about 18 miles.
The importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length,
will bo at once seen by an inspection of the map, when the following
points will be self-evident.
1. That the port of Wisbech is the nearest sea-port for Birming-
ham, Staffordshire, Ind the Midland districts of England.
2. That this line will open the whole of the manufacturing and
mineral districts of the Midland Counties and the Potteries to Wis-
bech, the nearest port for Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the nor-

them States of Europe.
3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunica-
tion will he opened between the port of Wisbech, and the ports of
Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool.
4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties
system of railway with those e Norfolk, communicating with Nor-
wich and Yarmouth.
Application for shares (which must in all casesbe ha the usual form,
and accompanied by a reference to a hanker or to a member of the
Provisional Committee) or prospectuses, may be made to tho Pro-
visional Committee, at theotlices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to
the Company, or the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. She Well and
Ron, Tokenhonse-yard ; Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London ;
Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich ; Messrs. Cruso and Son, Ly nn ;
Messrs Peet, Son, and Potter, Nottingham ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham ;
Mr. F. C. Spencer, Halifax ; and Mr. Carr, Culver-street, Colchester.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Port of Wisbech, Peterborough,

Birmingham, and ➢lidland Counties Union Railway.
I request you will allow shares in this undertaking,
and I agree to take the same or such less number as may be al.
lotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parlia•
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required
Dated this day of

v,
1845.
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WAVENEY VALLEY and GREAT YAR-
MOUTH RAILWAY.
At a Public Meeting of the inhabitants of the town and borough
of Great Yarmouth, held in pursuance of a requisition to the Mayor,
at the Town-hall of Great Yarmouth, on Saturday, Sept. 27, 1845,
The Right Worshiptbl the MAYOR in the Chair,
It was moved by GEORGE DARBY PALMER, Esq., seconded by A

STEWARD, Esq., and resolved unanimously,
That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that at present Yarmouth
is without adequate railway accommodation between Yarmouth and
London, the Norfolk Railway being 146 miles, 23 miles further than
the accustomed coach-road, not to mention the very inconvenient
distance of the present railway terminus from the shipping and places
of public business.
It was moved by Mr. WILSUERE, Esq., M.P., seconded by Stmox
Coss, Esq., and resolved, with six dissentients,
That this meeting strongly deprecates the attempt of the Norfolk
Company to monopolise the railway communication between Yar-
mouth awl London, and cannot but regard the proposition to accom-
modate Yarmouth by a circuitous route from Beccles, across a na-
vigable river at Reedham, to join on a line terminating on the west
side of the river Bure, and at the extreme end of the town, as
inimical to the inhabitants and highly injurious to the trade of this
port.
It was moved by BENJAMIN FENN, Esq., seconded by THOMAS
LE'rrts, jun., Esq., and resolved unanimously,
That the contemplated railway, called the Waveney Valley and
Great Yarmouth Railway, presents to this port, and especially to
its fishing, a convenient and desirable communication between Yar-
mouth and London, while it takes a route shorter by 23 miles than
the line by Cambridge. It passes through and preserves a com-
munication with a dense population along the line, which has long
profitably existed, ant which it is exceedingly desirable to main-
tain. At the same time, this meeting would express its unqualified
confidence in the Directors who have so kindly consented to under-
take the conduct of the Bill in the ensuing Parliament.
It was moved by SAMUEL PAGET, Esq. ; seconded by A. PALMER,
Esq. • and resolved unanimously,
That this Meeting pledges itself to give its best support to promote
and secure the success of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth
Railway.
(Signed) WM. HURRY PALMER, Mayor,Chairman.
The Right Worshipful the Mayor having left the chair, It was
unanimously resolved,
That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Mayor for his able
and impartial conduct in the chair.