The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-20 00:00:00

I EXETER,
JUN C TI DORCHESTER,
ON
COAST
I N
RAILWAY.
LAWADY WEY-
MOUTH
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital, 4250,0001., ix 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lieut.-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Montague-place, Mon-
tague-square
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place
John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell
John Carter, Esq., Dorset-place, Portman-square
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Whliam Collo', Esq., Rex House, Bridport
W. S. Cross, Esq., Nev-court, Temple, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway
Newton Crouch, Esq., Southampton-place, London, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
The Hon. Miles Dormer, Hans-placei Sloane-street.
Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, CUrrou-street, .31ay-fair
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, C. 8., Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Peter Henry Edna, Esq., Director of the Warwick-and Worcester
Railway
Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equity and
Law Life Assurance Companies
Captain S. N. Fisher. Junior United Service Club, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Major Fitzgerald, Mount Edgar, Sidmouth
John Foster, Esq., Barge-) ard, Bucklersbury
The Rev. H. Fellowes, J.P., Vicar of Sidbury
Theophilus M. Gunn, Esq., Bridpoit
Captain Sir Andrew Yellett Green, R.N., K.C.H., James-street, Buck-
ingham-gtite, Director of the Bank of Australasia
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
W. Newton Harriott, Esq., Odiham, Hants
Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director ,of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Thomas Heathcock, Esq., The Mermitage, Sidmouth
George Price Hill, Esq., Gawanbro House, Hampstead
F. B. Hoare, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
John Holmes, Esq., Liverpool, and St. James's-street, Westminster,
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Michael Elijah Ropey, Esq., Duchess-street, Portland-place, and
Lawn Cottage, Twickenham
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Staf-
fordshire, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and
of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, and Direetor of the Wor-
cester and South Wales Junction Railway, and of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways
Siegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., 9, Billiter-square
William Ley, Esq., Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Llewellyn, Esq., Ynisj'enllwch, and Graig-Avon, Glamorgan-
shire
Robert Henry Lindham, Esq., New-street, Dorset-square, Director
of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
C. W. Lovesy, jun.e Esq., Charlton Kings, Cheltenham
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Wootton-under-Edge
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Captain Mathews, R.N., Sidmouth Lodge, Sidmouth
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life In-
surance Company, and Director of the South and Midland Junc-
tion Railway
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, and Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of tho
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
Robert Rea, Esq., Exeter, and Cromwell Rock, Waterford
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., toney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great
Northern of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway, and of the National Bank
of Ireland
Robert 4ichards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Director of the
York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq.. Eryanslon-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Galway and Belfast Railway
J. Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge, Surrey
W. Digby Seymour, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-spare
William Sloane Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the South-Eastern Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of
London, and Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., M. 8., F.R.C.S., Dorset-place, Dorset-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, and of the Taw Vale
Railway
Henry Wright, Esq. Brunswick-square, Director pf the Warwick
and Worcester Railway
(With p3wer to add to their number).
CoNsulaiNG ENGINEER—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., F.R.S.,
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins,
Messrs. Gough and Roumieu.
SURVEYORS—Messrs, Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauniler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square
Edward Strick, Esq., 10, Doughty-street.
SECRETARY—D. Bartie, Esq.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Martin, Stones, and Martin, Lombard-street
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street
Southampton—Messrs. Atherley, Fall, and Atherley
Weymouth—Messrs. Eliott and Pearce.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Weymouth—George Arden, Esq.
Bridport—E. Nicholetts, Esq.
Sidmouth—Edwin Church Everitt, Esq.
Exeter—George William Turner, Esq.

This railway is intended to commence at the east part of the city
of Exeter, neat St. Sidwells, and after passing through Topsham,
with a fork at Woodbury by Lympstone to Exmouth, will proceed, in
an easterly direction, towards Sidmouth, and thence, near OelYton,
Beer, Seaton, Axmouth, Lyme Regis, and Charmouth, to Bridport.
At Bridport the line will divide, taking the course direct to Dor-
chester, to join the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and the
other, passing near Bridport harbour and Abbotsbury to Weymouth.
At Exeter, junctions will be formed with the Bristol and Exeter and
North Devon Railways, and at Exmouth with the South Devon, by
means of their steam ferry, thus making the most direct route to
Plymouth from London. Also at Dorchester and Weymouth it will
be connected with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, as well as
with the Dorchester and. Southampton at Dorchester.
It will be seen, on reference to-the map, that by forming a junc-
tion with the lines of coast railway that have already been con-
structed or commenced from Exeter westward, and from Dorchester
eastward, and by following the coast as nearly as is practicable be-
tween its termini, this line will effectually complete a railway com-
munication from Dover to the Land's End, an undertaking in itself
of great national importance, and likely to meet with the cordial sup-
port of the Government.
In fixing the course which this Railway will take, it has been the
careful consideration of the Promoters to project only such a Line as
will afford the greatest facility of communication to the populous and
important towns and fashionable watering places which are situated
on and near that part of the Coast which this Railway is particu-
larly meant to accommodate; whilst, at the same time, the Agri-
cultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial Interests of this part of
the Kingdom have been equally studied.
This Line will also open such additional means of communication
to the Port of Weymouth, the large Alanufacturing Town and Har-
bour of Bridport, and the Harbour of Lyme Regis, as must even-
tually replace theffi in that high position, when compared with the
other Ports of the Kingdom, which they formerly held. The Water-
ing Places of Exmouth, Budleigh-Salterton, Sidmouth, Charmouth,
Lyme-Regis, Weymouth, &c., will be thus thrown open to every part
of England and Wales, and accommodated with that facility of ac-
cess which they alone require to place them on an equal position
with other favourite places of resort, for which the picturesque In-
land and bold Coast-Scenery of Devonshire and Dorsetshire is pre-
eminently proverbial, and justly entitles them to hold.
The following extract from the Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Lords on the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail-
way," made on the 18th of June, 1845, will show the sense enter-
tained by that body of the importance of a line of railway in the
di-
rection proposed by the present Company In making their
re-
port, the Committee feel it their duty to state that the great diffi-
culty with them, in deciding on the Bill referred to them, had arisen
from the fear they entertained whether, in allowing the Great
Western Railway to come down to the sea at Weymouth, or even be-
low Yeovil, they might not be creating a difficulty as to making a
railway in the most desirable manner to Falmouth, the most westerly
port in the Channel."
The great importance of this railway may be further estimated,
from a consideration of the fact that the local population which would
be benefited by its construction exceeds two hundred thousand
persons.
And also that Weymouth, which win he one of the termini of the
line, is about to become a great Rational Harbour of Refuge and
Packet-station, by the construction of a breakwater in Portland
dthe during Government
Commissioners, raleasntt
Roads, in accordance with the recommgreenedta,tivesonmoef
Commissioners, for which purpose a
session of Parliament for commencing the works. The additional
population and traffic, which will thus be attracted to this port, will
be very considerable.
A preliminary survey has been made, and there are no peculiar
engineering difficulties. The length of the main line, from Exeter to
Dorchester, will be about fifty-two miles; and of the Forks, or exten-
sions, to Weymouth, and Exmouth, about sixteen miles ; making, in:
the whole, sixty-eight miles of railway.
The sentiments of the landowners are favourable to the construc-
tion of a railway calculated, as this is, very greatly to benefit their
properties, and in the allotment of shares preference will be given
to the applications of persons locally interested.
Estimates of the traffic have been carefully prepared by the pro-
moters of the line, from which it is evident that an ample re-
turn will be obtained for the investment of capital iii the undertak-
ing. More detailed traffic tables will, however, be forthwith com-
piled, as required by the Committees of both Houses of Parliament.
The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow
nterest at 41. per cent. on the amount of deposit and calls from the
passing of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liability
of Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions.
Applications for copies of the prospectus, and for shares, may be
made to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 62, Moor-
gate-street ; to the solicitors and local agents ; also to the fol-
lowing sharebrokers :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-
buildings, and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin,friars, Lon-
don;Exeter;
Henry Vatcher, Esq., and John Langworthy; Ea„,
Messrs. Hopwood and Painter, Plymouth; Messrs. Tate and Nash,
Bristol ; Thomas Forsyth, Esq., Liverpool ; henry Benton, Esq.,
Manchester ; Messrs. Rhodes, Leeds ; W. H. Collis, Esq., Birming-
ham; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York; William Mason, Esq.,
Bradford, Yorkshire; F. Stamp, Esq., Hull; Thomas Boardman,
Esq., Blackburn; Messrs. John Robertson and Co., Edinburgh;
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Glasgow ; and Messrs. mewburo
and Blakey, Halifax. .
To the Provisional Committee of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Company.
I request that you will apportion me Shares of 201. each, in
the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Company ; and I
do hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may
allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share and all future
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscri-
bers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of , 1845.
Name in full ...
'Residence .
Business or Profession .
Place of Business (if any) ........ •
Name, Residence, and
Profession of a Referee j

.EXETER,DORCHES-TER, andWEYMOUTH
JUNCTION COAST RAILIVA.Y.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares will be re-
I ceived after SATURDAY, the 27th instant.
DAVID I3ARTLE, Sec.

C9mPapy's Offices, 62, Meorgate-street,
Sept. 20, 1645.