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London, England, 1845-10-17 00:00:00

REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY.
ANCHESTER AND LINCOLN UNION
M" RAILWAY, AND CHESTERFIELD AND GAINS-
BOROUGH CANAL COMPANY.
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 4s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS,
Viscount Duncan/ion, 31.1'., Director of the Manchester and South-
ampton Railway.
The Eon. C. 11. Cavendish, 31 P., Chairman of the Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
The Hon. Arthur Duncombe, 31. P,, for East Retford
W. R. Collet, Esq., 31. P. for Lincoln, Chairman of the Chester and
Holyhead Railway
Thomas' Gisborne, Esq., M.P., Director of the Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
William Evans, Esq., M.P., Allestree-hall
Colonel Dawson Darner, 31.1'., Director of the Dorchester and
Southampton Railway
Robert Arkwright, Esq., Sutton-hall
qir George Sitwell, Bart., Renishaw
William Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Chester and Birkenirad
Railway
Henry Tootal, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland Junction Railway
Sir Joshua Walmsley, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway
Henry Newberry, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the West Lancashire
Railway
Sir William Magnay, Bart, Chairman of the Great Grimsby, Louth,
kuland Junction Railway
Horncastie, Lincoln, and
William Reed, Esq., Director of -,he Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway
James
Railway Durham, Esq., Director of the Manch...ter and Southampton
Christian Allhusen, Esq., Director of the Liverpool,
---Iral tster, and
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway
James walkinshaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester RHO
Southampton Railway
W. A. S. Westob3-, Esq., Hyde-park-place, London, Director of the
Liverpool Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway
John Ridgway-, Esq., Cauldron-place, Director of the North Staf-
fordshire Railway
William Richardson, Esq., York, Director of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
James Barker, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland Junction Railway
John Green, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction Railway
Sydney Smithers, Esq , Churchdale, Director of the Trent Valley
Union Railway
Joseph Paxton, Esq., Director of the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway
William Bradbury, Esq., Whitefriars, London
Charles Stanley, Esq., Sheffield
Henry Beller/sy, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Great Grimsby,
Louth, llorncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
John Gregory Cottingham, Esq., Mayor of Chesterfield
Richard Barrow, Esq., Stavcly, near Chesterfield, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Railway
George. Hodgkinson Barrow, Esq., Staveley
Henry Bowdon, Esq., Southgate-house
John Bros n, Esq., Wingerworth
John Charge, Esq., Chesterfield
John Chambers, Esq., the Hurst, near Aifreton
John Gilbert Crompton, Esq., Chesterfield
Thomas Clarke, Esq., Chesterfield.
William Condell, Esq., Park-lodge, Bakewell
Samuel Dutton, Esq., Chesterfield
Joseph Eyre, Esq., Chesterfield
Josiah Elliott, Esq., Brampton
Thomas Fosbrooke, Esq., Staveley
Thomas Hallowes, Esq., Glapwell-hall
Rowland Heatheote, Esq., East Bridgford
George Dewitt, Esq., Brampton
Edward Ilumble, Esq., Renishaw
31. M. Middleton, Esq., Leam-hall
E. G. Maynard, Esq., Chesterfield
Robert Malkin, Esq., Chesterfield
31. F. Mills, Esq., Chesterfield
John Roberts, Esq., R.N., Chesterfield
James Robinson, Esq., Chesterfield
W. H. De Rodes, Esq., Barlborough-hall
William Booth, Esq., Chesterfield
Charles Steade, Esq., Whittiagton •
Adam Barker Slater, Esq., Chesterfield
William Towndrow, Esq., Chesterfield
William Waller, Esq., Chesterfield
John Wood, Esq., R.N., Chesterfield
William Lister Sharpe, Esq., Gainsborough
Edward Sanders, Esq., Gainsborough
Matthew Sooby, jun., Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Ethrington Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
William Furley, Esq., Gainsborough
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
The Rey. Robert Duckle, Gainsborough
Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough
John Clater, Esq., Mayor of East Retford
William Mee, Esq., East Retford
Samuel Francis Flower, Esq., East Retford
William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, East Retford
John Charles Hall, Esq., M.D., East Retford
Worthington Thomas Gylby, Esq., West Retford
John Cottam, Esq., East Retford
Francis White, Esq., wharfinger, East Retford
John Holmes, Esq., cornfactor, East Retford
William Bettison, Esq., East Retford
Francis Dewick, Esq., East Retford
Jokn Smith, jun., Esq., East Retford
Job litullivant, Esq., East Retford
Robert Lightfoot Hewitt, Esq., East Retford
Hon. Frederick Byng, 37, St. James's-place, London
R. G. Fullerton. Req., 36, South-street, London
Fairfax Fearnley, Esq., Bishopfleld, Bawtry
Benjamin Eddleon, Esq., Worksop
William Champion, Esq., Worksop
William Morley, Esq Blackheath
John M. Mathew, Esq., Gray's-inn, London
James CroSs, Esq., Gringley-on -the-Hill
The Rev. Charles ludson, Saundby
Richard Milward, Egg., Thurgarton Priory
John Parkinson, Esq., Leyfields, Newark
George Thomas Smith, Esq.' Oaltharn
Thomas William Newstead,Esq. Dunham
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall:house
James Lee, Esq., West Retford-house
Horatio Nelson, Esq., Moorgate, Clareborough
George Chapman, Esq., Weiham
John Rogers, Esq., Ranby-lodge;
(With power to add to their number.)

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
Chairman—The Hon. George Henry Cavendish, M.P.
Deputy Chairman—Joseph Paxton, Esq.

W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P. The Hon. A. Duicombe, M.P.
E. G. Maynard, Esq. Henry Newberry, Esq.
William Jackson; Esq. Richard Barrow, Esq.
William Mee, Esq. James Walkinshaw, Esq.
Henry Tootal, Esq. John Roberts, Esq. R.N.
James Durham, Esq. George Thomas Smith, Esq.
William Richardson, Esq. Sir Joshua Walmaley
George Chapman, Esq. John Gregory Cottingham, Esq.
William Reed, Esq. James Cross, Esq.
ENGINEER—Frank Giles, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Mee, Bigsby, and Mee,} East Retford.
Messrs. Newton and Gylby,
Messrs. Lucas and Cutts,/ Chesterfield.
C. S. B. Busby, Esq.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—John Robertson, Esq., Chesterfield.
BANKERS.
In London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Iu Liverpool—The Royal Bank

Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.
In Lincoln and Gainsborough / The Lincoln and Lindsey Banking
Company
In Manchester—Manchester and Salford Bank
Messrs. Crompton, Newton, and Co.
Messrs. Robinson and Co.
In Chesterfield Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Com-
pany

In Retford, Worksop, and Doncaster—Sir W. B. Cook, Bart., Fol.
jambe, and Co.
In Retford and Worksop—The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Banking Company
This railway project will join Manchester to Lincoln by nearly a
straight line, and has been formed by an union with the Chesterfield
Canal Company. One of its objects is the conversion of that canal
into a railway (as far as it may be available), so as to give the most
complete system of railway accommodation from Great Grimsby,
Wainfleet, Horneastle, Louth, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Retford, and
Worksop, to Sheffield, Rotherham, Chesterfield, Bakewell, Buxton,
Stockport, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead; also the most
direct communication from cast to west, with Macclesfield, Congleton,
Crewe, Chester, Bangor, and Ireland ; as well as nearly direct access
to the Staffordshire Potteries and iron districts of North Staffordshire;
also to Shrewsbury and Nortitand South Wales. Southward, it will
give a good communication to'Derby, Birmingham, Droitwlch, Chel-
tenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and Southampton.
This line will commence at Lincoln, and go nearly direct to East
Retford, Worksop, and Chesterfield, where it it will join the Mid-
land Railway, the Chesterfield and Sheffield Railway, and filso the
proposed North Derbyshire line which proceed direct to Maachester
s,
North
and Liverpool, and
Staffordshire. In length it will be about
56• miles.
A section of the line rill commence at Gainsborough, and join the
main line at East Retro& a branch will be made front Worksop to
oin the Midland near Beig•hton, so as to give railway accommoda-
tion to Rotherham and the nortern districts. This branch will take
the course of the Chesterfield Canal, which it is proposed to use in
its construction.
A glance at the map will at once show the importance of this
national undertaking. In connexioll with other lines it will form
the most direct and valuable trunk line from cast to west than has
yet been offered for public support; it will join together nearly by a
direct route the most important manufacturing towns of Lancashire
and North Staffordshire, with the rich corn-growing districts of Lin-
coln and Nottinghamshire, and will give to the rising ports of Great
Grimsby and -Wainfleet a most perfect access from nearly all the
great manufacturing districts of the west.
The project, comprehensive and integral in itself, interferes with
no vested interests, and will form a considerable auxiliary mid feeder
to the various lines with which it connects itself. It will offer a great
advantage to the public from its union with the Chesterfield Canal,
for that portion of the canal, not used for the railway, will give ex-
tensive local accommodation, by affording many more points of con-
tact with the consumer.
It is thought unnecessary to present any detailed estimate of
traffic, as it must be obvious from the above outline of the objects
to be accomplished, and the rich, populous, and productive agricul-
tural and manufacturing districts to be traversed and connected, and
the extent of inexhaustible coal-fields and lime and stone quarries in
the immediate neighbourhood of the line, that the project presents a
most advantageous investment for capital, and will afford an ample
remuneration to the shareholders ; in proof of which reference may
Ise made te the printed yearly accounts of the
Chesterfield Canal
Company, which for an average of 10 years, commencing in 1834,
show a dividend of above 0/. per cent. per annum.
Independently, however, of the local traffic, the through traffic
between the porta on the east coast, and the various districts to the
west, and the exports and imports which will be conveyed, cannot
fail to be most productive, and to give the shareholders a good return
for the outlay of their capital.
To the inhabitants of the various towns and districts which this
line traverses a complete system of railway accommodation will be
given ; and the bare mention of the project has called forth a spon-
taneous offer of support from almost every direction.
A general survey of the line has already been made, and instruc-
tions have been given for the necessary ground surveys, with a view
of obtaining an Act in the ensuing session of Parliament, and such
surveys are in so forward a state as to preclude the possibility of dis-
appointment.
Power will he given in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per
annum, irons the time of payment until the opening of the line, and
no liability will be incurred by any subscriber beyond the amount of
subscription.
In the allotment of shares the Committee will give a preference to
parties locally interested, and in all cases satisfactory reference will
be required to a banker or to some person of known respectability.
Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the soli-
citors and to the secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Lincoln Railway,
and Chesterfield and Gainshorough Canal Company.
I request you will allot me shares of 201. each in the above-
named Company ; and 1 hereby undertake to accept the same, or any
less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of
21. 4s. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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MANCHESTER AND LINCOLN UNION
RAILWAY, and CHESTERFIELD and GAINSBOROUGH
CANAL COMPANY.
Capital 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 4s. per share.
The applications for shares in this Company have already been so
overwhelming In number and amount, that *the Committee are
liged to fix SATURDAY next, the 18th of October, as the last day for
eiving applications.
JOHN ROBERTSON, Chesterfield, Secretary pro tem,
October 13,1g45.