The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

pRELIMINARY NOTICE.—The Directors
of the Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway
'jompany give notice, that a Prospectus will be issued next week
of a Company to form an EXTENSION LINE of RAILWAY,
to proceed from BEDFORD to join the LONDON and BIR-
MINGHAM RAILWAY at WEEDON, passing through the
town of Northampton.
This line, in connexion with others from Bedford to Harwich,
^.lready before the public, under powerful auspices, will form an
essential link in the communication between Harwich and the
Eastern Counties, and both the manufacturing districts and the
ports of the western and southern coasts of England.
Full particulars will be given in the prospectus.
Oct. 3, 1845.

'BUXTON, MACCLESFIELD, STOCKPORT,
AND WARRINGTON RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
This Railway will commence at Parkside, communicating with
the Liverpool and Manchester and North Union Railways, and
proceed by Warrington, so as to unite with the line about to be
constructed by the Grand Junction Company from Huyton on the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Warrington, and with the
lines projected from Warrington to Birkenhead and Liverpool; it
will then proceed up the valley of the river Bollin to Altrincham.
Here a line will branch off to Stockport. It will continue up
Abe Bollin Valley to Wilmslow and Macclesfield, connect itself
with the various lines of railway there, and proceed thence to
Buxton, where it will join the line to Ambergate and Nottingham
on the one hand, and to Sheffield and Great Grimsby on the other.
This Railway has a two.fold object in view. First, to connect
the towns of Macclesfield and Stockport, and all the various rail..
wa)s Aida centre in those two places, with the ports of Liver.
pool, Birkenhead, Fleetwood, and the north of England ; and;
.e-rindly, to form a connecting link in the chain of railways from
th^se districts with Nottingham and the central portions of Eng.
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As to the first object, this line will provide.the shortest route from
be large, populous, and rapidly increasing towns and vicinities of
'`ockport and Macclesfield, and will be a great accommodation to
e manufacturers and inhabitants, for their foreign commodities
ad raw produce, as well as their manufactures.
In the second place, this line will form an important
integral link in the line of railway communication
v,ith the central districts of England. By its connexion
,ith the railway which proceeds south.east from Buxton,
it connects itself with Derby and Nottingham, and by its
i inetion with another railway at or near Buxton, running north-
east, it offers a ready communication with Sheffield, Lincolnshire,
and the port of Great Grimsby. Its length will be about 36 miles.
it is brought out by the inhabitants and landowners of the district
through which it passes ; and the Provisional Committee has strong
reason to anticipate the cordial co-operation of the railways, with
which it forms a junction.
A large proportion of the:shares will be appropriated to the land-
owners and those locally interested.
A Prospectus will be published in a few days, with the names of
Provisional Committee, Engineers, Bankers, &c. The shares are
intended to be 201. shares, on which 21. 10s. will be paid on allot.
men t.
In the mean time, applications for shares may be addressed to
Messrs. Coppock and Woollam, solicitors, Stockport; to Mr.
Joseph Fernyhough, stock and share-broker, St. Ann's-square,
and to Messrs. Hall and Rawson, Tib.street, Manchester.
And further particulars may be learnt by application to the Pro.
visional Committee, at their offices, No. 1, Bank-street, St. Ann's.
square, Manchester; Messrs. Coppock and Woollam, Town Clerk's
Office, Stockport, the Solicitors to the Provisional Committee ; to
Mr. Thos. Porter, Spring-gardens, Manchester ; to Mr. Wm.
Benson, solicitor, King-street, Manchester ; and to Messrs. Par-
rott, Colville and May, Town Clerk's Office, Macclesfield.
Manchester, October 2, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the:Buxton, Macclesfield, Stock-
port, and Warrington Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of 201.
each in the above railway, and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit
of 2/. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Con-
tract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full
Place of Business or Profession
Residence
Business or Profession
Usual Signature
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