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London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To thei.Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and
Coventry Railway.
Gentle.'nen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, In OA abcve railway; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less' ntrnber as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations Of al, , Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when reqttirch. the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in ftill . ..
,Profession and professional residence in full
Residence in thll• • • • „
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THE 'WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER
AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM
SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION,
Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21.25. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halkin-street West, Belgrave-
square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, ar,d Ditchley, Oxon
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean
and Dove Valley Railway
William Bulkeley Hugkes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the
London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
Sir John Z. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshlre, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of
the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western

Railway
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Sir William Twysdea, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of

Dean Railway
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &e., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester aid Birkenhead Continuation,
and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. Sic.
Thomas Famcomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and
Midlands' Junction Railways
John Kinneraley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South

Midlands' Junction Railways
Denald Maclean, Esq. Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Talley Con-
tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
Major Oliver Lyndam, LH., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst-
with, and Central Wales, aid Director if the South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces-
ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff,
Fir-grove, North Brixton' Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c.
Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the
Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of
Bengal, and Routh and Midlands' Junction Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth

Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thanked Embankment

Railway
Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man-
chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc-
tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction

Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu-
rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White-
haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Col. Robert Douglas, Keys.' Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
ways
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag-
ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di-
rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,
Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di-
rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands'
Junction Railways
G. W. Killed Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London
Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Wltney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' June-

tion Railways
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 6, Upper Hyde-park-street
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways ' de)
Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia 'Life Insurance
Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc-
tion Railways
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbedge, Staffordshire
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England
Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,

,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Cash, Esq.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham
Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc-
tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways
William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South

and Midlands' Junction liailway
William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director
of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con-
tinuation Railway
John Blackburn,-Esq., Leeds
Peter Fairbaime, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds aed York
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the TAndon and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
James Durness, Esq., Leytonstoae, Essex
George Willes, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square,
Islington
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
Martin Furness, Req., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway
William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and

Leeds Railway - -
Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melkeham, Wilts, Director el

the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Charles Thomas Ward. Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton Haase,
Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc-
tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional
Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail-
way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Captain Hutchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands'

Junction Railways
John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct, and Kelghly, Halifax, and Huddersfield
Railways
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near
Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail-
way
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of
the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton
Major Waller, K. 11., Director of the London and Manchester Ditect,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby,
Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid-

lands' Junction Railways
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and
York and Lancaster Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me-
tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and
Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance
Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South
and Midlands' Junction Railways
Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby and Southampton Railway
Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
William Lee, Esq Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and
Essex and Suffolk Railways
Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands'
Junction Railway
J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Hallway
Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director ofthe south and Midlands' Junction
Railway
C .Walte, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railwey
William Shirk, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford
and Worcester Extension
'Climatal Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of. the West Riding Junction, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great
Britain Life Assurance Society
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director
of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Major Grubb*, Eastwell House, Potteme, Wilts, Magistrate of the
County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
South and Midlands' Junction Railways
T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
aenry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua-
tion, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal
and Commercial Life Insurance Company
William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Tewn, Brighton, Director of the South
• Ju.otit>rs 'Railway
John BrOOkii Walbaricke, Esq., Director et the Youth and ..111,11andg'
Junction Railway
Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery
William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway
Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square
William T, Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
Jobs Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
Joseph Crockett,Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the
North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby
and Worcester Railway
William Peppercorn, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex
Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford
Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge
John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director
of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway
William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar-
net North Junction Railway
James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of
the Saddleworth Ranking Company
(With power to add to their number).
BANC/SU—The Commercial Bank of London.
Coltstibrino ENGINIEB—Sir John Maonell, LL.D., F.R.S.
ACTING EffolNEna—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
COLICITOZ—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street.
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It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great
ties of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec-
-171.r and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique,
o;aming rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis-
t: icts, with packet stations, and with seaport towns. The more
lsterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, anol Qambridge,
day be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible.
The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also
common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad-
vastages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere-
wash Yale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South-
ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing-
stoke.
The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de-
fective in design than the preceding; employing the steep and narrow
railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it
traverses nearly in a right line the least populous and most undulating
Pis
of Gloucester, Barks, Wilts, and Hants ; and, properly speaking
has no independent terminus.
A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland
district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodation from
remedy
concentrated local advantages,
tyosk ; and it is contemplated toremains unprovided with a chief
this deficiency by the
present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal
it of the West
meals
Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminuse.
Mid-
land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway,proposed to carry
between Moreton,
Swindon,aaway. where it will
a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon,
Stew, It orthleach, ?Orford, Crickl
Junction
merge in the booth and 3fidlands'
The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles,
and the
district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled.
Its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with to South
and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica-
tion nithsrto sn3psted vrtth the harbours of Weymouth, Christ.