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London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

THE HUDDERSFIELD and LIVERPOOL
DIRECT RAILWAY,
By Rochdale, Bury, and Bolton, forming the shortest practicable
roue from Liverpool to Leeds, Hull, and Goole.
(Provisionally'Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21.125. per Share.
BANKERS.

London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, ‘nd Co.
Huddersfield—The Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany.
SOLICITORS.

Mr. William Barker, New-street, Huddersfield,
Messrs. Brook and Freeman,

The object of this undertaking is to form a continuous line of rail-
way from Leeds to Liverpool, by extending the lines already made,
or sanctioned by Parliament, from their respective termini at Hud-
dersfield, in Yorkshire, and Bury, in Lancashire, through the inter-
vening country between Huddersfield and Bury, for which extension
a line of railway only 25 miles in length is requisite. The proposed
line will commence at the Huddersfield station, between which place
and Leeds Parliament has already sanctioned the tormation of rail-
ways, and from Huddersfield the proposed line will proceed by way
of Hillhouse, Birchencliffe, and Lindley, and thence along the valley
between Stainland and Greetland, through Bat Usland, the Vale of

Ripponden, and by Rochdale to Bury, in Lancashire, where it will
join the terminus of the Liverpool and Bury line of railway.
In addition to completing a direct communication from Liverpool
to Leeds, Hull, and Goole by the shortest practicable route, and by a
much smaller outlay of capital than by'any other proposed line, it will
provide for a large and important manufacturing population, hitherto
without the advantage of railway accommodation, an outlet to the
south by means of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway,
and to Manchester and North and South Lancashire by the railways
above mentioned, and by the Leeds and Manchester Railway, by a
proposed junction therewith at Rochdale.
This line when completed will, in addition to the advantages which
it presents as a through line, pass through a succession of valleys
thickly studded with mills and manufactories, consuming a large
quantity of raw materials and coal, all of which are brought from a
distance, and transmitting to other districts the produce of their in-
dustry, for which purposes a line of railway has become absolutely
necessary, and there can be no doubt that an ample return will be
realised for the outlay of capital required.
The distance between Huddersfield and Rochdale by the present
line of railway is thirty miles, which by the proposed railway will
be reduced to seventeen miles.

The Provisional Committee reserve to themselves the right of en-
tering into any arrangements with existing railway companies that
may appear desirable. And power will be taken by the Act of Par-
liament to allow interest to the shareholders at the rate of 4/. per
cent. per annum on the amounts paid on their shares from the
respective times of payment to the times of opening the railway.
Applications for shares may be addressed, in the subjoined form, to
any of the undermentioned Sharebrokers, viz.—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett
and Hill, Threadneedle-street, London; Mr. David Kinnear, Edin-
burgh ; Messrs. W. Moore and Co., Messrs. J. Gatliff and Co., Messrs.
Wilson and Hellawell, Mr. Thomas Parrett, lilr. Frederick Turner,
Messrs. John Atkinson and Co., Messrs. Tempest and Co., Messrs.
Mooney and Hickes, Huddersfield ; Messrs. John Young and Co.,
Mr. C. E. Langdon, Leeds ; Mr. Hervey, Mr. Charles Clay, Messrs.
Crowther and Brook, Halifax ; Mr. John Brooke, Dewsbury ; Messrs.
Cameron, Bagenove, and Taunton, Messrs. Lloyd and Price, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, and Messrs. Lynnill and Berlyn,
Manchester ; or to the Solicitors to the Company.
The names of a highly-respectable and Influential Provisional
Committee will be published in a few days.

Huddersfield. Oct. 1, 1.45.
FORM OF 'APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Huddersfield and Liverpool
Direct Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each in this undertaking, and I engage to accept the same or any
less number that you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21.
2s. per share, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
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ELY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)

Liability limited to the amount of the Subscription.
Capital 200,0001., 11110.000 Shares of 201.

Deposit (to comply with the standing orders of Parliament) 2/. 2s,

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per Share.
Length of line, twenty-four miles.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir W. Browne Folkes, Bart., Hillington-hall, Norfolk, Chairman of
the Lynn and Ely Railway Company
Francis Cresswell, Esq., Lynn, Director of the Lynn and Ely Rail-

way Company
William Everard, Esq., Lynn, ditto
William Seppings, Esq . Lynn, ditto '
Henry C. Lacy, Esq., Kenyon-house, Manchester, Chairman of the
Ely and Huntingdon Railway Company
Frederick Ingle, Esq., ;Lynn, Director of the Ely and Huntingdon
Railway Company
Henry Champion Partridge, Esq., Snare-hill House, Norfolk, ditto
Edward Self, Esq., Lynn, ditto
Henry C. Lacy, Esq., Kenyon-house, Manchester, Chairman of the
Lynn and Dereham Railway Company
Thomas Neville Alxly, Esq., Albyns, Essex, Director of the Lynn
and Dereham Railway Cpmpany
Sir H. Roddam Calder, Bart., Sussex-place, Regent's-park, ditto
Joseph Bridgwell Whiting, sq., Lynn, ditto
Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., Barton, near Bury
William D. Christie, Esq., M.?., Ecclestone-street, Chester-square
The Worshipful the Mayor of Lynn
Joseph Andrews, Esq., Nildenhall, Suffolk
Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde, Manchester
Wyrloy Birch, Esq., Wretham-hall, Norfolk
James Bowker, Esq., Lynn
Charles Burckam, Esq., Lynn
Thomas A. Carter, Esq., Lynn
William Clifton, Esq., Lynn
Frederick Edwards, Esq., Barnham, Suffolk
William Edwards, Esq., Framlingham, Suffolk
Mr. Thomas Ellington, merchant, Barton, Suffolk
Mr. Richard Ellington, merchant, Barton, Suffolk
Mr. Philip Fuller, merchant, Barton-mills, Suffolk
John Turner Hales, Esq., Herringswell, Suffolk
George Gataker, Esq., Mildenhall, Suffolk
William Lowten Jones, Esq., Woodhall, Hilgay, Norfolk
E. B. Manning, Esq., Lynn
Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester
Charles Neville-Rolfe, Esq., Sedgeford-hall, Norfolk
William Ship, Esq., Lynn
Mr. Philip Smith, merchant, Soham, Ely
Mr. Thomas Steel, Tuddenham, Suffolk
John Teather, Esq., Alstonby, Cumberland
John Wayte, Esq., M.D., Lynn
William Layton, Esq., Wood House, Ely
William Tinker, Esq., Hyde, Manchester
Thomas Waller, Esq., The Rookery, Eyke, Suffolk.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Chairman
Sir Henry Roddam Calder, Bart.
Thomas Neville, Abdy, Esq.
William Everard, Esq.
Frederick Ingle, Esq.
Henry Champion Partridge, Esq.
J. B. Whiting, Esq.

ENGINEERS.
J. U. Rastrick, Esq., 1.R.5., F.S.A., C.E.
J. S. Valentine, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Goodwin, Partridge, and Williams, Lynn
Messrs. Isaacson and Son, Mildenhall
Messrs. Rooper, Birch, and Ingram, 68, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London

BANKERS.
Messrs. Curries and Ce., Cornhtll
Messrs. Everards and Co., Lynn
Messrs. Gurneys and Co., Lynn
Messrs. Oakes, Bevan, and Co., Bury St. Edmunds
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—L. F. Edwards Esq.
PROSPECTUS. - -

This railway will commence by a junction with the lines of the
Eastern Counties, the Lynn and Ely, and the Ely and Huntingdon,
Railways, at the city of Ely, and proceed thence, via Mildenhall, to
Bury St. Edmunds, forming there a junction with the railway from
that town to Ipswich, now in course of construction.
The town of Bury St. Edmunds and the adjacent districts, and all
the country through which the line will pass, have for generations
drawn their supply of coals, timber, deals, wine, oil-cake, tar, flag-
stones, and other general merchandise, from the port of Lynn, and
have transmitted thither their own corn, flour, wool, fruit, and
other agricultural produce, for shipment to the northern markets.
While the proposed line will affect the local object of presort in;
the mercantile connexion that has so long subsisted between the
county of Suffolk and the port of Lynn, it will effect the national
one of affording to the ports of Ipswick and Harwich, and the im-
portant towns of Colchester and Bary St. Edmunds, a direct com-
munication with Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the north, and, by
means of the Ely and Huntingdon, and the proposed Rugby and
Huntingdon Railways, with Birmingham and the west. From
these sources a most ample return on the capital required for the
undertaking may be confidently relied on.
The line is singularly easy of construction, the estimated cost. in-
cluding every contingency, being little above 8,000/. per mile ; it
will not interfere with ornamental grounds of any kind, and it is not
anticipated that any opposition will be offered by the landowners.
The Provisional Directors are to be at liberty to take all such
measures as they may deem requisite for obtaining the necessary
powers to construct the line or any part thereof, with such branches,
extensions, or alterations, as they shall be advised to adopt ; and for
such powers, or any of them, they are to have power to increase the
amount of the capital, to lease or sell the line to, or amalgamate the
same with, the Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and
Dereham Railway Companies, or any or either of them, or any other
company or companies.
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It is proposed to raise the capital by issuing 10,000 shares of 201.
each, a deposit of 2/. 2s. per share (in compliance with the Standing
Orders of Parliament) to be paid on allotment.
There will be an interval of two months between the calls, and not
more than 5/. per share will be called (or at one time.
A Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, in such
form and with such clauses as the Provisional Directors may think
right, will lie for signature at the offices of the Solicitors, in London
and Lynn, on payment of the deposit. Arrangements will be made
for transmitting the deeds to the principal provincial towns in or
near which the shareholders may reside, due notice whereof will be
sent to every shareholder by post.
As under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely, Ely
and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham, Railway Companies,
a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders
of shares in those companies, a very limited number of shares only
is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for
shares, therefore, can be attended to, except from parties locally
interested and of the highest respectability, by whom applica-
tions may be made, in the annexed form, on or before the
I 3th October, 1845, to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, Lynn,
Norfolk, or to the respective solicitors ; no application, however, can
in any case be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to one
of the Provisional Committee, or to the Solicitors or Bankers of the
Company.
To the Provisional Committee of the Ely and Bury
St. Edmunds Railway.
I request you to allot me shares of 201. each in the above
undertaking, and I hereby engage to accept the same, or any less
number which may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon,
and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required.
Dated like day of 1845.
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