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and Walsall Junction Railways
James Maurice Shipton, Esq., R.N., Walmer-hall, near Tewkesbury,
Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice-
Consul of Russia at that port
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of
Gloucester, and Deputy-Chairman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean,
and Gloucester Railway
Samuel Flitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester
Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erdington, Warwickshire
Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury
George Smith, Esq., Presthury, near Cheltenham
Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester

Caleb Trotter, Esq.; ditto
Arthur 11. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester Directors of the
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto Worcester, lien?.
Robert Mane, Esq., ditto fonLand Giouces-
Charles Walker, Esq., ditto to Railway
Henry Fox, Esq., ditto
Edward J. Woodhouse, Esq., ditto,

John Ladds, Esq., Abbot's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury
Aaron Goold Bilsome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of tile East and
Nest of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park,
and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of tile Tean and Dove
Valley, South Staffordshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford-
place, birector of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox-
ford, and Brighton Junction Railways
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
Robert H. Shomburgk, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of

the Barbadoes General Railway
George Frederic Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands

Union, and Dover and Bristol Railways
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction Railways
George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and

Dover and Bristol Railways
Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways
Major White, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple,
London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and

,
the Dover and Bristol Railways
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol

Railway
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
London Bristol and South Wales Direct, the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool,

Preston, and North Union Railways
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire
Potteries Railways
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcestershire, and Adelaide-
place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern and Eastern, and
Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways
John Bird, Esq., Dinas Mowddy, North Wales
W. H. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and
Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West
Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways
Edward Shilton, Esq., Bath-cottage, ltandsworth, Staffordshire
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich,
Wednesbury, and Walsall Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct,
and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman -square, Director of the London and
Exeter, and other Railways
W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
Capt. Goald, Charles-street, St. James's
Samuel Kempson, Esq., Little Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and IValsall Railway
Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway
Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction

ENGINEER.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28,
1E or
Strand, London
W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham.,
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Benn, Rugby
William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-A:von
Anthony Sproule, Esq., Tewkesbury.
BANKERS—MCSSI'S. Rogers, 01(1111g, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq.

The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, the terminus. of the Midland Counties
and Trent Valley Railways, and the point to which several other
projected railways converge, and will proceed through •r near to
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury,
and Cheltenham, t• Gloucester. The length of the line will be
about 56 miles.
The advantages that will result from the construction of this line
are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fail to secure
a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re-
munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing
and proposed rallwaj 8, it will form a complete chain of railway com-
munication between the whole of the midland and north-eastern
counties of England, the populous cities and towns before-named, and
the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester,
Not-
tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and till,.
into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of
Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-productive. and
Plymouth, far-famed
Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol,
and Falmouth, and those of South Wales.
T inhabitants and visitors of the much-stlvortaeinntead
directw • ater
places of Leamington and Cheltenham,
line
between those resorts, instead of the pre'sveitlilttchicitiitintonttisireoutttitoenthwroiltigchh
Birmingham, affording that faciliiityit o‘fililnatlesroconfl
Ord the utmost fa-
has long been ardently desired; eil visitors who, attracted as well by
ofaccess to the "w"mera memory of Shakspcare, annually
the beauty of the scenery as the
resart to Stratford-on-Avon.
To those passengers from the etanedutntobrltgh-ocaffsttliediraenestlteooGf
lou-
Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury,
the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Cheltenham, will afford a
great accommodation. a in distance of at least eight miles,
stoppageucl a saving
besides the delay of the at Cheltenham.
AA Tewkesbury it will also form a junction with the proposed line
frfnit that place to3latnern aordg te ost diret communication
to the numerous visitors to'theff maginnifichentm sceneryc and invmigoratinog
atinephere of the celebrated Malvern-hills.
To the Inhabit:nth of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes •
bury, this portion of the proposed line will prove immensely advan-
tageous si.nated within ten miles of the important city and port of
Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway
route nearly twice that distance, an inconvenience which has
already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of
the town. The proposed Pue, running close to the town, will remove
this great incon:enimee, and restore its trade to its former state of
prosperity.

The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot
be too highly estimated, as it will not only open to it inuuea: e
sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern
enmities, but will very materially lessen the distance between it
and.ltirmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making
Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most accessible outlet
for the whole of mat immensely productive manufacturing region
'and it is impossible to Conceive any project better calculated to