The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-14 00:00:00

Railway.
Francis Billam, Esq., Newhall Hall, Utley.
Thomas Clifton Wilkinson, Esq., Clayton Hall,
Jamas Foulds, Esq., Trawden House, CoMe.
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester

and Huddersfield and Manchester Railways.
Robert Midgley, Esq., Colne.
With power to add to their number,

SOLICITORS—Henry Alcock, Esq., Skipton; Edward and R. William

Bennett, Alanehester.
Barixaas—The Craven Bank, Skipton, and its Branches; Messrs

Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., London,

This line of Railway is projected to supply the required link in the
chain of railway communication between the counties of Lancaster
and York, and the Ports on the North-Eastern and North-Western
parts of the Kingdom.
It is intended to commence at or near the proposed stations of the
Leeds and Bradford Extension and North-Western Railways at Skip-
ton, whence it will proceed by Bolton Bridge, and thence either by
the valley to the south of the Harrogate road, as far as Pace Gate.
by West end, across the River Washburn, and along the banki of the
Nidd, by Hampthswaite (or otherwise from Bolton Bridge, along the
valley of the Wharf, by Addinghain, Ilkley, Burley, and Otley) to
Harrogate and Knaresborough, near which it is intended to form a
junction either wills the line propoSed by the Great North of England
Railway Company called the " Harrogate cud Ripon Junction," or
the " Leeds and Thirsk Railway," and also with the " Harrogate and
Church Fenton Railway," which latter line is projected by the York
and North Midland Railway Company.
The length of this connecting line of railway, as at present pro-
posed (including a branch to Pateley Bridge, in the event of the line
by the valley of the Nidd being adopted), will be about twenty-seven
miles ; the districts through which it will pass abound with lead
mines and lime-stone of a well-known and excellent quality, but from
the present total want of railway or canal communication, and the
local traffic being conveyed by carts over bad and difficult roads, the
neighbourhood is now without the means of obtaining coals, except
at a most enormous expense, and its resources are therefore very
partially developed.
This line of railway will altogether remove these disadvantages
and will, in conjunction with other railways now in operation or in
course of conetruetion, effect a direct communication between the
ports of Liverpool, Lancaster, Preston, and Fleetwood en the north-
west, and the ports of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Whitby, Scar-
borough, and the free port of the Tees on the north-east,
and will also produce a saving of upwards of forty
miles in distance over any existing or proposed railway. It
will also perfect time communications between the important
manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, comprising the
great populations of Bury, Bolton, Blackburn, Accrington, Burnley,
Colne, Clitheroe, Huddersfield, Halifax, Keighley, and other towns
in the neighbourhood, and the vast agricultural districts of the North
Riding of Yorkshire and the north-eastern parts of England and
Scotland, and will be the means of mutually opening out these great
agricultural and manufacturing districts to the products of each other,
as well as to the coal fields of Durham, in a manner hitherto im-
practicable. It will also afford a direct route from the north-eastern
parts of the kingdom and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the lake
districts of Lancashire, Westmoreland, aed Cumberland.
The nearest and most direct route between Ireland and the Conti-
nent via Fleetwood and Hull, will be given by the proposed line and
the railways in connexion with it, and it will also be the nearest way
from Manchester to Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Durham.
The local traffic of this line will afford ample remuneration for the
capital expended.
The communication with Harrogate and Knaresborough will be of
great importance, for it is stated on the best data that near two-thirds
of the visitors to those places are from Ireland and the districts of Lan-
cashire, with which this railway is in direct connexion. The im-
portance of the traffic to those places is also evident from the fact that
the experienced Directors of the Great North of England and the
York and North Midland Railway Companies have each projected
branches from their main lines on the north and south, with almost
the sole view of connexion with Harrogate and Knaresborough.
The proposed line will not be &competing one with any other exist-
ing or prejected line of railway, it will feed the several lines proposed
to be connected with it, and it is supported by the Leeds and Thirsk,
the Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Colne ; the Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton ; the Blackburn and Preston ; the Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendale ; the Preston and Wyre ; and the North-
Western Railway Companies.

The lino has been carefully surveyed, and the levels accurately
taken, and it is estimated that the line will be oonstructed with
favourable gradients at an average cost.

The responsibility of the Shareholders will be limited by the Act of
Parliament to the amount of their Shares.

Applications for Shares may be addressed to the Solicitors to the
Company, or to the undermentioned Share Brokers :—Manchester,
Mr. J. R. Owen, or Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; Liverpool, Mr. Ed-
ward Bayliffe ; Leeds, Messrs. Ilidsdale, or Mr. Jamieson; York,
Messrs. Glaisby and Man; Blackburn, Mr. Thomas Boardman;
Huddorsfleld, Mr. J. C. Spencer ;Settle, Mr. John Gibbins ; Glasgow,
Messrs. Mein and Cunningham ; Edinburgh, Mr. Robert Allan ;
Skipton, Mr. S. B. Hall; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Messrs. Warburton
and Co.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire North-

Eastern Railway.
Gentlemen,—l hereby request you will apportion to me
Shares in the above proposed Railway, and I agree to pay the
deposit of 11. 10s. per Share on such allotment as you may be pleased
to make, and to sign the Subscription Contract required hy Parlia-
ment, and also the Subscribers' Agreement.—l am, Gentlemen, your
obedient Servant,

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