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EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION AND
SOUTHEND RAILWAY.
NOTICE.—In consequence of the standing order of last session of
Parliament, the amount of deposit upon the shares of this Company
has been increased to 2/. 12s. 6d. per share. All parties who have
already applied for shares, and are desirous to have an allotment,
must renew their applications, as no allotment can be made on
previous applications.
PEKING, MINET, and SMITH, 5, Lawrence Pountney, lane.
CHUNTLER and WESTWOOD, Gray's Inn-square.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION
AND SOUTKEND RAILWAY,
Forming a Direct Communication between England and Belgium,
and Holland, and the Rhine, from the Essex coast, with a Branch,
via Tilbury, to Gravesend.
(Registered Provisionally, pursuant to the Act of Parliament.)
Capital, 550,6001., in 22,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Chars.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mail, London, Vice-Chairman of
the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.B.
Charles Richard Bigg, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the
Direct Western Railway, and Directly of the Sheffield and Man-
chester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies
Edwin Cadwin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Great Western and
Isle of Ely Railways
Captain Carnegie, Director of the London and Hounslow Railway
Company
John James Cavan, Esq., Park-cresoent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, London, Director of the Chelms-
ford and Bury Railway
Frederick George Cox, Esq., Doctors'-commons, and Stockwell
Mlles Dormer, Esq., sa, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Director
of the Larn, Belfast, and Ballymena Railway Company
Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., Royal Artillery, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Colonel George Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's Park
Rev. H. R. Fowle,, 7, Manchester-square
Matthew Gill, Esq., Knaresbororgh, Yorkshire
Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway, and of the British
Mutual Life Office
John Lawrence Harris, Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry
William George Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey
T. Charles Harrison, Esq., F.R.S., 31, York-terrace, Regent's Park
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Director of theleicester and Tam-
worth Railway Company
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Rail way
John Holmes, Esq., BS, St. James's-street, Director of the Isle of
Man Railway
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land Railway
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Don-
caster Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kil-
kenny Railway
John Manwaring, Esq., Eagle Hall, Pately Bridge, Yorkshire, Direc-
tor of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
John Nixon, Esq., Lloyd's
The Mayor of Nottingham
Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham
Apsiey Pellatt, Esq., Holland-street, Blackfriars, and Staines, Direc-
tor of the Richmond and Staines Railway
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Direc-
tor of the Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester Railway
Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
stoke yws
Ruth, the Direct Western and Tring, Reading, and Basing-
Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Branton-street, Bryanston-square, Di-
rector of the Direct Western Railway
T. Ridley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Directot of the Lincoln and North-
ampton Railway
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster
Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of ,the
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich
William Alexander Thomas, Esq., Maunden, Essex
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Park, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool and Direct Manchester Railways, and the Com-
mercial Bank
Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta House, Worthing, and Lower Brook-
street, Grosvenor square
woodhead, Esq., 1, James-street, Adelphi, London
William Wright, Esq., 8.A., Great Portland-street, Portland-place
Robert Vaughan Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell.
square
Sir William Wynne, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

Sir Henry Webb, Bart. John Holmes, Esq.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., John Nixon, Esq.
M.P. A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq.
William Bradley, Esq. Robert A. Riddell, Esq.
Frederick George Cox, Esq. W. Alexander Thomas, Esq.
John James Cavan, Esq. Joseph Underwood, Esq.
Miles Dormer, Esq. William Wright, Esq.
INGINEERS.

John Gibbs, Esq,

BANKERS

Arthur Dean, Esq.

London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury, and Henrietta-street
Romford—London and County Bank.
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This railway will form a junction with the Eastern, Counties Rail-
way, near the important market town of Rumford, in Essex, and
proceed from thence, by way of the populips agricultural districts of
Hornchurch, Uptninster, Cranham, North and South Ockenden,
Langdon, Bulpham, Hornden, Stanford, Basilden, Pitsey, South Ben-
fleet, Thundersley, Raleigh, Hasler, Leigh, Eastwood, Rochfort, and
Prittlewell, to the agreeable and much-frequented watering-place of
Southend.
Independently of its numerous local advantages, it will open a
nearly direct communication between the Essex coast and many of
the most important places in Holland and Belgium, and more par-
ticularly with Hamburgh, the Rhine, Ostend, Middleburgh, Antwerp,
Rotterdam, and Amsterdam.
The extraordinary facilities of intercourse and communication
which will thus be provided will form a most important source of
revenue; and it is intended that a branch line shall be hereafter
formed ftom Orsett, by Baker's-street, Chadwell, Thurrock, and
Li.tle Thurrock, via Tilbury, to Gravesend, which cannot fail to pro-
cure a large amount of traffic, and will enable parties to poeeed from London to Gravesend in less than an hour !
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construction of this railway cannot fail to esbablish it as a packet
station of the highest importance to Belgium and Holland as well, as
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to England.
The value of this line to the shipping interests of the City of Lon-
don cal scarcely be overrated ; it will afford:a ready communicationwith all vessels entering or departing from the mouth of the Thames ;
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The advantages which the Government must derive from the for-
mation of this railway are obvious, and the iroposed line is yarmly
supported by the principal landowners, it being an established fact,
that railway communication considerably enhances the value of land.'
The distribution of coal throughout the southern portions of the
county of Essex and other localities more inland will form an im-
portant item of revenue, as will the carriage of Purfieet lime for
building and agricultural purposes. The great fisheries on the liesex
goast will also form a considerable source of profit, and an immense
number of persons will avail themselves of the means of this railway
to go to and from the metropolis and the following places, viz.,
Gravesend, Southend, Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramp.'
gate. It is also important to observe that by the sal of the Graves-
end and Rochester, and the proposed Rochester and Maidstone Rail-
ways, this line will also provide a valuable medium of communica-
tion between the centre of Kent and London and the eastern coun-
ties.

The engineers of the line have reported " that neither tunnels
nor heavy embankments, nor large excavations will require to be
made on any portion of the proposed line ; that it is wholly free
from engineering difficulties, and may be construe ed at a compa-
ratively small cost." The promoters of this railway have great
pleasure in stating that" The Eastern Counties Railway Company...
in a letter to the Solicitors of this Company, dated 9th June, 1545,
have signified " that, in the event of the proposed line being eon.
structed, they will be very happy to co-operate in affording it all
the usual facilities." The Chelmsford and Bury Railway Company
have also expressed their willingness to co-operate in the under-
taking.
A comparative statement of the distances of the following places
from London, and the time required for transit under the present
mode of travelling by steam-vessels, and of that by the proposed
railway, is subjoined :
PRESENT MODE, BY OMR-VESSELS.
Di iles. Hours.
From London to Southend ..... ..• ••• • • • 45 • • 4%
" Sheerness 5O • • 5
" Herne Bay
" Margate ...... .• •• •
44 "
Ramsgate .... •••••• •• • • 85 • • 8%
BY THE PROPOSED RAILWAY.

miles. Hours.
From London to Southend ...• ••••• • • • • • 35 • • I
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" Sheerness ...... 40 ..
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Herne Bay •••••• • • • • • • 55 • • 3
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" Margate .... •• • •
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" Ramsgate ...... .• •• • ... 75 .. 5
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" Gravesend, via Tilbury • • 25
And a summary of the chief sources from which the traffic will be
derived.

Ist. From passengers proceeding to and from the port of London
to the Continent and all parts of the world.
2d. From passengers proceeding by steam and other vessels, to
or from the port of London to all the eastern and northern ports of
the kingdom.
3d. From passengers now proceeding by steamzvessols to and

THE DIRECT LONDON and LIVERPOOL
RAILWAY (by a Junction flioniChester to Wolverhampton)„
through Newport and Whitchurch.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
sTioslfirThoEnixasoiNGto—nlßVrllleuiaetnr, WilkinsonEsgl3,GlVa)ar,sdell.l,,i-Cs4Eu.are
ENGINEER—Charles Blunt, Esq., C.E., P.n.s.
STANDING COUNSEL—Williala 11014 'ESC/
AGENTS. -
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London—Thomas George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court.
Liverpool-31essrs. J. B. and D. Neilson.
HuN—Messrs. Flint and Tootal.
Temporary Oflices, 13, Gray's Inn-square.
PROSPECTUS.
The Chester and Wolverhampton Railway is a direct line from
London to Liverpool.
It aces the London and Birmingham Railway the whole distance
to Birmingham ; from thence it proceeds to Wolverhampton either on
the Grand Junction or on the-Wolverhampton, Dudley, and Birming-
ham Railway.
From Wolverhampton commences the new po-tion of railway,
passing through the rich agricultural districts of Newport and White-
church on to Chester.
At Chester it proceeds on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway on
to Birkenhead.
It is proposed to establish at Birkenhead a steam-ferry, gratis, to
Liverpool, across the Mersey, so as to unite both towns into one.
A preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the extent
of 15,000 to the original shereholders in the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway Company, on their sending in their application for
the same.
A roper reservation of shares will be made for the London and
Birmingham, Chester and Birkenhead, and Warwickshire Railways,
being the railways by means of which the project now submitted to
the public is the most direct London and Liverpool Railway that can
be made.
A list of most influential London and Local 'Directors will be pub-
lished in a few days, together with a detailed list of Bankers, Agents,
&c., in the different towns on the line. In the meantime, applications
for shares may by addressed to the Solicitor or any of the Agents o
the Company, in the following form :
DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Liverpool
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares in the
above proposed railway, and I agree to accept that it any less
number that you may please to allot me. And I undertake to pay
the deposit of 2/. 25.. per share on the same, and to sign the Par-
liamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, and all usual and
necessary deeds, when required.
Dated this day of