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

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White-
hall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir William B.othby, Bart., Aslibourn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland and North.
ampton and Banbury Railways
The Rev. Charles Leicester, of Whitton Hall, Shropshire, Magistrato
for Shropshire, and Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the
Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Xorbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone,
Director of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral
Rail ways
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Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direst London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq., Coruhill, London, and Rayne, Essex, Director
of the London and County Bank, of the National Loan Fund
Assurance Company, and of the Direct London and Holyhead
Railway.
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London, Director of
the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the
Shropshire 31ineral Railway
Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq., ironmaster, Holly Hall,
near Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley
Railway
George H. Fourdrinier, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Diree-
ter of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London, Director of
the London and Holyhead Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudhury, Suffolk, Director
of the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and• Upper Bedford..
place, Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, runt
Cheltenham Railway
William Millington, Esq., ironmaster, Summerkill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentishli
town
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and
Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands June.
tion Railway
Thomas Lamie Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Di.
rector of Rosamel's Great Northern Railway, of the National Banlg
of Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, Magistrate, and
Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England
Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the
National Bank of Ireland
Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
London, Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railway
William Tomkinson Riley, Esq., Millfleld Works, Bilston, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool, and of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds, and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the
Direct London and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Broseley Railways
Rev. Matthevi Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church
Stretton, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
gbarles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James 31`Millan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster
George Young, Esq., Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton
William Ottey, Esq., Longton
John Ishwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Blanchester
Railways
William George, Esq., Weston, near Moch-Wenlock
Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potterlee
Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Ironworks, near Stourport,
Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, London, Director
of the London and Brighton, Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
William Heatrell Dowse, Esq., Chancery-lane, London
John Johnson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Shropshire Mineral
Railway, and of the Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby
Railway
William Dutton, Esq., Tittensor Villa, Stone, Staffordshire, and
Ebury-street, Eaton-square, Director of the Direct London and
Holyhead Railway
George Cowen, Esq., Dalston, near Carlisle, Director of the London
and Holyhead Railway
Robert Foreman, Esq., Abbott's Hill, Derby, Director of the Tears

and Dove Valley Railway
Joseph Gilham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
Peter Wood, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Shrop-
shire Mineral Railway
George Swift, Esq., Elford Hill, Eccleshall, Director of the Shrop-
shire Mineral Railway
John Robertson, Esq., St. Mary's-buildings, Glasgow
A. W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Great Eastern and Western, and Barbadoes General Railways
Sir William Young, Bart., Westbeurne-terrace, Hyde-park, Director
of the East India Company
William Johnson Neale, Esq., Temple, London
John Wright, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire and North
Midland Counties Railway
William Law, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square
James Fisher, Esq., ironmaster, Bilston
Henry Turner, Esq., Brcwood Hall, Staffordshire
John Clemson, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester
Barnett Joseph, Esq., Liverpool
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Ilford, Essex
T. Burrought, Esq., Derby, Director of the West Midland, and Derby
and Gainsborongh Railway
Jehnathan Burton, Esq., Carrington, near Nottingham, Director of
the Grand Union and Midland Junction Railways
Henry Cartwright, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham '
...I,Manafield. and Sheffield and London Direct Railways
Samuel Wright Fearn, Esq., Derby, Director of the West Midland,
and Derby and Gainsborough Railways
Henry J. Meller, Esq., 10, Cliffords' Inn
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
London, Director of the Great Leeds and London, of the Leeds and.
Carlisle, and of the Direct Western Railways
John Ferguson, Esq., Liverpool
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield
Thomas Gregory, Esq., ironmaster, Westbromwich
William Cantrill, Esq., Cliff House, Wirksworth, Director of the
Nottingham and London Direct, and of the Ambergate and Not-
tingham Railways
William Hurd Wood, Esq., Ashbourne
John Earp, Esq., Uttoxeter Directors of the Stafford-
Thomas Richardson, Esq., Derby shire and North Midland
Thomas Walker, Esq., Belper j Junction Railway
Charles Walker, Esq., Ellastone
William Nichols, Esq., 3, Inner Temple-lane
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Hoxton, Director of the Guernsey Railway and
Pier Company
Wm. Clapp, Esq., Welbeek-street, Cavendish-square
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Man-
chester Railway
Geo. R. Harrison, Esq., Harleyford-place, Kennington, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square, Di.
rector of the Grand Trunk Railway
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
C. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square,
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
Henry Brintoa Esq., Kidderminster
James Holmes, Esq., Kidderminster
John Hadland, Esq., Banbury, Oxfordshire
William White Coleman, Esq., Banbury
Barnes Austin, Esq., Banbury
William Caless, Esq., Banbury
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby, Southampton, of the Liverpool and Derby Direct, and of
the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Junction Railways
John Hudson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough, and
Great Grimsby Junction Railway
Samuel Parsons, Esq., Sackville-street, Piccadilly, London
C. L. Browning, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Dudley.
Madeley, and Broseley Railway

ZANLE.B.S.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiftsll
The Liverpool and Manchester District Bank, Liverpool
The National Provincial Bank of England, Newport, Gloucester, and
Manchester
Messrs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster
Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester
The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
Messrs. Alcock and Co., Hanley

ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Clegg, Esq., C.B.
ACTING ENGINEER—Francis Briscoe, Esq.

Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abehurch-lane, London
Edmund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster
Gilbert Brows, Esq., Shlffnal.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Jones and Walmesley, parliament-street.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry lllme, Esq., Liverpool
tdoent , sqq.Ma`ronchester
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Pottariea
JohnCh
William
r Charles
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G.
Burdett,
Esq., Biiston
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq.,KeWPOrt
William Harding, Esq., Burslem
Henry Vickers, Esq., Solicitor, Bridgnorth
SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abchurch-lane, London.

This line of railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
chester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed front
thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
Shine', in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing tow of Kid-
derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and te the BriOro] Rail-
way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct
route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Chester to the
important ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most dir_esoct
.
line from the north of England te the Bristol Channel. It wills
in conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester,in and
the mast advan-
tageouswan-
sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railways,
to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull.
am Railway at
Shrewsbury and Birmingham The line will cross the Shrews
Railway and the Trent Valley
route from Swansea and the iron districts of of South Wales.
Shiffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Newport. It will form a junction
Union at the thriving town
e The
eb yinpiedi persons
counties,
lug-
gage may be conveyed
Sheffield,to
and Hull; and, in addition to the
Staffordshire Potteries,
on, Bristol, Gloucester, 'Worcester, and
with the two latter railways
carriage of heavy goods r Liverpool, the whole of the north of
• secure a large passenger traffic In the
England, and Scotian
passes. A branch will be made from New-
cattoaf/Nberd, Derby, the
district through whictitewn
Wellington.
port to the
railwayimportant of
will be about 87 miles in length, and be-
The proposed
' of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
Kidderminster, to Manchester,
tween the two termini
in about two hours. This project as annects itself with some of the most important rail-
cent rapid rate of travelling,
co
at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent
junction line,
ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely-
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
course passes through a rich agricultural country. it must, there-
fore, be obvions that there will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required.
There are no engineering difficulties in the country through which
the line is intended to pass, the whole being nearly on a level, and
on reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey,
which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and
will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and
that it cannot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines between
the same termini.
It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel-
ling will be required.
Application is intended to be made, in the ensuing session e Par-
liament, for a direct line of railway (of which a survey has been
made) from Southampton to Kidderminster, and by which a ready
coinmunicationwill be afforded to the most southern ports of England.
The liabilities of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and
fluther calls, from the date of the several payments t o the opening of
the line.

Prospectuses, with maps and forms of application for shares, can
be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices
of the Company, 3, Abchareh-lime, London; from the Solicitors and
Local Agents; also from the following Brokers, viz.:—Messrs. Lyon.
2, Birchin-lane, and Messrs. French' and llenesey, 27, Change-
alley, Cornhill, Londori; Mr. Andres Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir-
kenhead; Mr. E. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitmore, St.
George, and Messrs. E. S. Boult, Liverpool ; Messrs. Sohmes and
Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; Mr. William
Miles, Worcester ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Manchester ;
to whom applications for shares may be addressed. It will be
necessary that referCnce be made to a Banker, Solicitor, or perm
of Responsibility.