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London, England, 1845-08-23 00:00:00

August 18. 1845.

DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
(WITH EXTENSION HEREAFTER TO FALMOUTH.]
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE,
Adjoining the County Assurance Company.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway.
The Right Hon. Viscount Sidmouth, Upper Ottery, Devon
Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
J. R. Phililmore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salis-
bury
Jno. David Chambers, Esq., Recorder of Salisbury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street
The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Grosve-
nor-square
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
G. Thompson Jacob, Esq , Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy Lieu-
tenant for Dorset
W. F. A. Delane, Esq., Bracknell
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director
~of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street
Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long-
Orchard, Tipperary
Lieutenant-Colonel I'. W. Pedlar, Maley House, Devon
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood
The Hen. Henry Savile, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Bingley House, Birmingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Anglesey
John Lyall, Esq., Chelsea
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street
John Penhall, Esq., Springfield, Wandsworth-road
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood
George Evans, Esq., Mi'bury-terrace, Regent's Park
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
John Lyle!, Esq., Chelsea
John Penhail, Esq., Springfield .
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq., 4, Trafalgar-square, Engineer
• of the Eastern Counties Railway
BANKERS—Messrs. Cdrrie and Co., 29, Cornhill
Swami:Hl—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8. Carlton Chambers, Regent-street 1
The object of this Company is to establish a railway from London to
Exeter direct, through Salisbury and other considerable towns, hither-
to deprived of that great improvement of the age. The most impor-
tant feature, however, of this undertaking will be, that it will establish
an uninterrupted, direct, and seeedy communication between the me-
tropolisand thus form an immediate trans!;, to the extreme part of the west
and our largest maritime ports—Plymouth and Falmouth,
of England. To the shipping interest, both at home and abroad, this
facility will be of the utmost importance, and if war should unfortu-
nately arise, the advantages of such a line are evident.
The Committee feel the import/thee of the duty imposed upon
them, and rely with confidence on the success of the undertaking,
possessing, as It does, the strongest claims for support, whether as a
pertnanent and judicious investment of capital, or as a great national
undertaking. It is not intended to comment on the various railway
schemes partially affecting the line the Committee propose should be
adopted, further than to observe, that none of them have been based
upon a sufficiently comprehensive view to afford " a direct organic
communication" with the metropolis : and it is apparent that an en-
tire line, under the management of one Company, is far preferable
to any other communication now available or projected. This line of
railway is offered to the public as affording not only an independent
and direct intercourse between the metropolis, Exeter, and the va-
rious important towns upon it, but will effect a saving of thirty miles
and upwards, in the circuitous and expensive route by Bristol.
The opinion of Sir Robert Peel is particularly applicable to -this
project—that the tendency of the improvements which are almost
daily intr, duced, was decidedly in favour of the shortest and most
direct lines ; and it is deserving of remark,
that when the Wilts and
Somerset Railway Bill (which has lately received the royal sanction)
was before Parliament, its proj• etors were required to pledge them-
selves that they should not offer hereafter any impediment to a direct
line to Falmouth, being precisely such an undertaking as the one now
proposed, thereby proving the• importance attached by Parliament to
direct communications, and the London and York having obtained
the consent of .he House of Commons to their Bill, after a prolonged
opposition, sho les the weight attached to direct independent railways.
It is proposed that this railway shall take its course between the
Great Western and the South-Western, as far as Kingsclere—though
it will not in any way interfere with those lines—and is the course
actually suggested by the Board of Trade in its Fourth Report,
sec. 42, by which an opening Was made in this very line, stating that
there is nothing in the present* settlement of existing railways to
prevent a shorter or competing line to Exeter being brought forward.
The Direct London and Exeter Company intend to form their ter-
minus in the most central par'. of London which can be obtained. It
will be in the immediate vicinity of Sloane-street and Knightsbridge.
It is also intended that this Company, shall join the railway projected
to cross the Thames, and thus effect an immediate connexion with a
tehte'dLnuons daotnlitnenrgmer4r:ebr!dge.
the line will branch off to or near
Hammersmith,
rn.rni ters ?nab, T urnhain-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow,
Staines, Egliam, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bintield, Wokingham,
Kingselere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne,
Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster (or from Salisbury to Cranbourne,
Blandtbrd, Dorchester, Bridport, Axminster), and Houlton, to Exeter.
entiearbl37 the one adopted by the Romans ; and
le, adopted the straight line, the Come
eo•
aNss'eenr ca
wasP
nearrlly as possible, following their example. This
the old mail coach line, until the circuitous course of
theulasro laTttdthhGee weerye Great Western, line chosen
es• onh t
er n , to the infancy of railway traffic, diverted the
traffic from it.
The line of this railway will pass through Staines, as before ob-
served; and it is proposed to form a branch to Windsor, it being re-
presented that that mode of immediate communication with the
metropolis will be most congenial to the wishes of the inhabitants of
that town and its vicinity. The reommittee are therefore,
and active
therefore, desirous
of accomplishing that objec!, and invite the immediate
co-operation of the landholders and inhabitants of Windsor to this
part of their scheme especially,
To To the sporting world, also, this undertaking offers a desideratum
which has long been felt; it is calculated the number of persons
annually visiting Ascot and Egliam Races exceeds 250,000; this line
will pass in the immediate vicinity of these race-courses; and near
Ascot ,a handsome and commodious station will be erected for the ac-
commodation of the public. The traffic tables which are now in
course of preparation will, when completed, be published; but from
the official returns, and other sources which have come within the
Committee's cognisance, a very ample interest for the capital neces-
sary for this undertaking is shown, and as the traffic, from the great
accommodation this railway will afford to every description of pro-
perty in the district through which it will pass, will be greatly in-
creased, so also will be the financial returns.
The rejection of the Bill before Parliament of the Plymouth and
Falmouth line, induces the Committee to propose an immediate ex-
tension of the direct line from Exeter to Falmouth. Prospectuses for
and the landowners on the Falmouth
this extension will be published as soon as the plans and surveys are
matured, and in the allotment of shares for this part of the line pre-
ference will be given to the original holders of shares in the Direct
plans, sections, and books of reference will be ready
has been partially surveyed, and the essential bene-
wileirsbeof Parliament,
elbow of Bristol been •
fit arising from avoiding the e ascertained beyond
iLinoTenidieonelaitnirde,Elitineeter Company,
The usual power
the Standing Ord
made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
and application will be
early in the next sesstaken by the
cent. per annum , after passing the Act,
Act to allow interest at 41.
pert* nspaid u
on the amount of the subscrip io
savidtotritiheTlie time prescribedien. by the
shall be answerable for more thanthe amount of his deposit until the
Act be obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his sub-
seri ption. t sanction tpresent In case Parliament should no undertaking,
bet aken tope secure, the money de-
hich every active meals will
x en
pwosited, deducting the necessarlyerse
.p ses rettending the projection,
will be returned to the shareho d .
t.
The Committee have been in communication with many influential
hom Promises o
landowners on the line,
from w
co-operationf support have been
obtained, and earnestly invite theit,
desirous and assistance of all
parties holding property upon of furthering the object in
view, whose names, it is requested, may be communicated to the
Commit to the Company Committee or to the solicitor forthwith.
Prospectuses and plans of the line, with forms of applications for
shares, may be had at the offices of the company as above, and of the
following stock and sharebrokees—viz :
Messrs. Sutton,
Gribble, and Sutton,Royal Exchange, London, also
• J. B. Munday, Bath • es
John Langworthy, Exeter ,
Wm, Moo , otter and Co.,
and Ridsdale and Co., Leeds ; . re and Co., Huddersfield ;
and Simpson,l . Tull ; Grayston and
• Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Sibare
Earle, York; Henry Billingham, Wakefield; Hopwood and Palmer,
Plymouth ; Hall, Brothers Cheltenham and Co., ; W. W. Dickinson,
Newcastle-on-Tyne •
; W. H. Collis, Birmingham , Myers and Birkbeck,
Wm. Marshall, and Cardwell and Sons, .Manchester; Muurd and
Co Edinburgh ; John R. Mann and Son, Norwich ;A. W. Moffatt,
Edinburgh ; Luke Arnold, Bristol ; John Thomas Holland, Coventry;
James Watson, and Thomas Gray, Glasgow ; noworth and Shepperly,
ham
and Thomas Crewdson, Liverpool:
Nottingham
g ;
followlng gentlemen are among those appointed as Local
Agents, in furtherance of the interests of the company, from whom
prospectuses and applications far shares may also be obtained :
Egham— Thomas Harvey, Esq.
Yeovil—George Haecoc
Crewk ir,
Esq.
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. erne—Robt.Lowman, Esq.
Bracknell--Charles Clive, Esq. Blandford— G eorge Moooe, Esq.
Woking—
ham Francis Soames, Esq. Dorchester— Geo. Cull, jun., Esq.
Salisbury—Henry Coq ,er Esq. and Bridport—S. H. Gummer, Esq.
I Foot and Radcliffe and Henry B, Fox, Esq,
Bruton—Dyne and Son
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARE&
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Exeter
Railway Company. ,

the necessary legal docu-
ments, Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me Shares, of
251. each, In the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same,
or
eg such
me, subject to the
ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 1/. 7k. Gd.
regulations
less
of intmhebeerom as
pyaonuy, maai);oaptporospignriatthe to
per shai e.

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