The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-17 00:00:00

THE LEEDSand CARLISLE or NORTHERN
TRUNK. RAILWAY of ENGLAND,
With a Branch from Otley to Bradford, being the completion of a di-
rect communication from the Midland, Southern, Eastern, and
Western Counties of England to the Northern and Scottish lines.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share,
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave-
square, and the Riding, Northumberland
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the Cork and Water-
ford Railroad
Sir John E. de Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension Railway
Major William Beresford, M.P., Pall-mall, London
Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan-
ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester • Direct Rail-
way, Liverpool and Leeds
John Yarde Buller Yarde Buller, Esq., of Holme-park, Devonshire
Captain Beare, Porchester-place, Hyde-park, Deputy Chairman of
the Great Munster Railroad
B. Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway -
John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the
General Maritime Insurance-office
C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull
Edward H. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, and Director of
the South Midland, and Direct Western Railways
.Thomas Canny, Esq., Claremont-square, London
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
W. It. Collett, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Chester and Holyhead
Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Southampton
Railway
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Great Western
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Regent's Park, London, Chair-
man of the Asturian Mining Company, and Director of the Man-
chester and Southampton Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, London, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank of London
J. Charretie, Esq., Park Village East, Regent's Park
James Clay, Esq., Director of the Furness, and of the Birmingham,
Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railways
C. Cuningham, Esq., 4, Clarges-street, Piccadilly
George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane, Director of the London, Hounslow,
and Western Railway
John Grifliths Frith, Esq., 11, Austin Friars, and Director of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
Captain S. N. Fisher, Junior United Service Club, and Regent's
Park, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Direct Con-
tinuation Railroad
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and Liverpool and
and Leeds
Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., James's-place, Buckingham-gate
Henry Plumptree Gipps, Esq., Montagu-street, Russell-square, Di-
rector of the London, Oxford, and Cheltenham Railway, &e.
Edmund Gwyer, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the
London and Hounslow Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Dire-ctor of the London
and Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, and Direct Western
Railways
Francis Kiplin, Esq., Darlington
John Knill, Esq., London-bridge-wharf, London, Director of the Wor-
cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, the Worcester and South Wales
Junction Railroad, &c.
Thomas Laurence, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
Edwin Cadman, Esq„ of Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
James Steele, Esq., the Mayor of Carlisle
Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Reading and
Reigate Junction Railway
Captain James Macdougal, the Grove, North Brixton
Joseph Madill, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton Railway
Michael Middleton, Esq., Darlington
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordrill House, Retford
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Portsmouth, and Gosport Railway
Archibald Paull, jun., Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square, Di-
rector of the London and York Railway
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director
of the Oxford and Witney Railway
Colonel Edward Stopford, Director of the Asturian Mining Company
Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of
the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railway
William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars, Provi-
sional Committee of Direct Western Railroad
W. Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde -park, Director
of the South Midland and Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten-
ham Railways.
J. Wightman, Esq., Director of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railway
W. Aiming, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor-
chester Railway
Thomas Sanger, Esq., Exeter
William Hammond Ambler, Esq., Bishop Auckland,
William Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a e.
Bobert Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Thomas Peacock, Esq., Bishop Auckland,
Edward Railton, Esq., Broome Hall, Durham, ye
Samuel Sharp, Esq., Quarry House, Harperley Park, E = l 0
Durham,
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Villiers Charles Villiers Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon- r ?••••
Tyne,
James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham
W. Bradley., Esq., Manor. Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
- Sheffield and Manchester Railway, of the Huddersfield and
Sheffield Railway, and the Direct Western Railway,
Edward Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Direct Western
Railway,
William Henry Home, Esq., Blackburn, Chairman of the
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, and Director of
the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Railway, and
of the Manchester and Wigan Railway.
Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, London, Director of the
Great Eastern and. Western, and Canterbury, and Dover
Railways,
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird PUlteney, Parliament-street,
Whitehall, London,
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Ito-
samel's Great Northern of France Railway, of the Man-
chester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union
Railway, and of the National Bank of Ireland, .
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Leyton
House, Essex, Director of the Direct London and Man-
chester Railway,
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Director of the Hull and Selby
Railway,
Thomas Eastham, Esq., Kirkby Lonsdale, Yorkshire,
William Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tadcaster, Director of the
East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway,
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hall, Halifax, Director of the
East and West Yorkshire Junetion Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Jobn-street, Bedford-row, London,
Director of the London and Brighton Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., London,-Director of the Commercial
Bank of London
Sir William Young, Bart., *London, Director of the Hon. East
India Company, and of the Leicester and Tamworth Junc-
tion Railway
Robert Stanslieldjun., the Breck, near Halifax,'
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway,
Christopher Liusdale Bradley, Esq., Richmond,
Yorkshire,
William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire,
John Harland, Esq., Merrick, Richmond, York-
shire,
Francis Morley, Esq:, Merrick Park, Richmond,
Yorkshire,

Directors of the
Manchester,
Liverpool, and
Great North of
England Junc-
tion Railway.

(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury.
Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 24, Lime-street.
The object of this Company Is to shortern the present railway com-
munication between London and Edinburgh, and to open up a direct
railway communication through the populous and wealthy counties
of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, between the impor-
tant towns of Leeds and Carlisle.
This railway will connect the lines south of Leeds with those de-
parting from Carlisle, thus forming the shortest route between _Scot-
land and the midland counties, and the only remaining link to the
great trunk lines from the west and south-east of England through
the midland counties to Carlisle northward, and will effect the saving
of upwards of forty miles in the distance between the capitals of
-England and Scotland.
In addition to this it presents the important consideration of a di-
rect line between the Solway Firth and Hull, the chief shipping port
in the north-east of England.
This line will traverse a manufacturing, mineral, and an agricul-
tural district, and will afford railway accommodation, among other
considerable towns, to _those of Wakefield, Keighley, Hunfleet, thus-
ley, Otley, Birstall; Pudsey, Knaresborough, Skipton, Allendale,
Appleby, Jtichmond, Dalton, Kirby Stephen, Hawes, Ripley, Blugley,
Brough, Aldatone, Kirby-Malzeard, Aysgarth, Morley, Eccleshill,
Sllsden, Bedale, Masham, Brampton, Grinton, Carleton, Harrogate,
Whiteley, Bewerley, Fewston, Reath, Botoughbridge, Wetherby,
Aberfard, Featherstone, Sawley, Pannale, Morton, Thorner, Hesket,
Linton, Bolton, Kirby-Thorn, Grassington, Burnsale, Addingharn,
Ikley, &c., besides very numerous manufacturing villages scattered
along the line, comprising an aggregate population (including the ter-
mini) of more than 700,000 persons.

There are no engineeringellillculties, and the line will be one of
easy and inexpensive construction, probably considerably under the
average cost per mile of railways. •
It is almost needless, to advert to the enormous passenger traffic
which this line must command, whilst the conveyance of its manu-
facturing, mineral, and agricultural prOducts will ensure it a highly
remunerative revenue.
The Leeds and Carlisle or Northern Trunk Railway of England
will form a junction with the protected Liverpool and Leeds Direct
Railway at Leeds, and by means of the proposed branch line frets
Otley to Bradford, it will unite with the Huddersfield, Halifax, and
Bradford Union Railway.
As this line will effect a saving so considerable in transit to North
Britaiustedn,to it may safely be assumed that her Majesty's mails will be en-
Applications for Shares to be addressed to isewitockrst,,roSt.er:.
Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury, and Messrs. Keddell,
Baker, an Grant, 34, Lime-street
TokenhoUse-yard ; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin-Mars Lon-
don ; Mr. J. N. Balme, King-street, Gloucester ; and Messrs. Nyti. bum, and Sons, North-street, Holton.