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London, England, 1845-10-01 00:00:00

NORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY,
FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing,
through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffeal, Kidder-
minster, Worcester, and Tewkesbury, with a branch from Newport
to Wellington, forming the shortest and most desirable Communica-
tion between Liverpool, Manchester, and the Northern Parts of
England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
;Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
(Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The lion. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White.
hall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, Director of the York and Lan-
caster Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland and North-
ampton and Banbury Railways
The Rev. Charles Leicester, of Whitton Hall, Shropshire, Magistrate
for Shropshire, and Director of the Shropshire Mineral ttailway
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director id• the Stafford-
shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the
Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter loose, Athers.tone,
Director of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral
Railways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direct London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq Coruhill, London, and Rayne, Essex, Director
of the Loudon and County Bank, of the National Loan Fund
Assurance Company, and of the Direct London and Holyhead
Railway.
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abehurch-lane, Loudon, Director of
the Chelmsford and Bury Railway
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral Railway
Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq , ironmaster, Holly Hall,
near Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley
Railway
George IL Fourdrinier, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Direc-
tor of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London, Director of
the London and Holyhead Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director
of the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford-
place, Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
William Millington, Esq., ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish-
town
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and
Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands Junc-
tion Railway
Thomas Lamie Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Di-
rector of 'los:tillers Great Northern f.ailway, of the National Bank
of Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, Magistrate, and
Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of England
Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the
National Bank of Ireland
Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
London, Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railway
William Tomkinson Riley, Esq., Milifield Works, Bilston, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool, and of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds, and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Edward Edwrxds, Esq., Ironbridgc, Shropshire, Director of the
Direct London and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Broseley Railways
Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church
Stretton, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
:diaries Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James McMillan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster
George Young, Esq., oley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton
William Ottey, Esq., Longton
John Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester
Railways
William George, Esq., Weston, near Much-Wenlock
Thomas Goddard, Esq., panic House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Ironworks, near Stourport,
Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway.
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, London, Director
of the London and Brighton, Newcastle, Barham, and Lancashire,
and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
William Heatreli Dowse, Esq., Chancery-lane, London
and Johnson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Shropshire Mineral
Railway, and of the Derby, Gainsborough„ and Great Grimsby
Railway
William Dutton, Esq., Tittensor Villa, Stone, Staffordshire, and
Ebury-street, Eaton-square, Director of the Direct London and
Holyhead Railway
George Cowen, Esq., Dalston, near Carlisle, Director of the London
and Holyhead Railway
Robert Foreman, Esq., Abbott's Hill, Derby, Director of the Tean
and Dove Valley Railway
Joseph Gilliam, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral
Peter Wood, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Shrop-
shire Mineral Railway
George Swift, Esq., Elford Hill, Eccleshall, Director of the Shrop-
shire Mineral Railwt,y
John Robertson, Esq., st. Mary's-buildings, Glasgow
A. W. B. Greville, 1..5.i , Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Great Eastern and Western, and Barbadoes General Railways.
BANICE:t3.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, pandon
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
The National Provincial Bank of England, Newport and Gloucester
Mews. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster
Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester
The' Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
ENGINEER-IN-CRlEF—Samuel Clegg, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abehurch-lane, London
Edmund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Brenton, Esq., Kidderminster
Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal.

LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Hime, Esq., Liverpool
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester
John Brampton, Esq., Worcester
Charles G. Brown, Esq., BiLston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq.,Newport
William Harding, Esq., Burslem
Henry Saben, Esq., Stafford.
SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abchurch-lane, London.

This line of railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
chester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed from
thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
Shiffnal, in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid-
derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail-
way at Gloucester. By this means It will form the most direct
route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Chester to the
important ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct
line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will also,
in conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan-
sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railways, form the most advan-
tageous route from Swansea and the iron districts of South Wales,
to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull.
The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at
Shifftial, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley
Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a Junction
with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the midland counties,
Staffordshire otteries, Sheffield, and Hull ; and, in addition to the
carriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Glodcester, Worcester, and
Kidderminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
England, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffic in the
district through which it passes. A branch will be made from New-
port to the important town of Wellington.
The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in length, and be-
tween tho two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a
junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail-
ways in the kingdom: It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely-
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
Course Passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there-
fore, be obvious that there will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required.
There are no engineering difficulties In the country through which
the line is intended to pass, the whole being nearly on a level, and
on reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey,
which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and
will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and
that it cannot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines between
the same termiui.

will be required.
It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel-
lingApplication is intended to be made, in the ensuing session of Par-
liament, for a direct line of railway (of which a survey has been
made) from Southampton tq Kidderminster, and by which a ready
communication will be afforded to the most southern parts of England.
The liabilities of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and
fhrther calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening of
the line.
Prospectuses, with maps and forms of application for shares, can
be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices
of the Cenipany, 3, Abehureh-lane, London; from the Solicitors and
Local Agents; also from the following Brokers, viz.:—Messrs. Lyon,
2, Birchin-lane, London ; Mr. Andres" Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir-
kenhead ; Mr. E. IL Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitmore, St.
George, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs.
Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Man-
chester; to whom aeplications for shares may be addressed. It
will be necessary that reference be made to a Banker, Solicitor,
or pencil of responsibility.

NORTH WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, FROM CREWE
DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER,
Passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal,
Kidderminster, Worcester, and Twkesbury, forming the shortest
and most desirable communication between Liverpool, Manchester,
and the northern parts of England and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per share.
Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares in the North-
Western Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit et
21. 25., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser nuinber
as you may allot to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement
and the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so.
Dated this day of , 1845.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,
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Profession ••••••• • • • • • • .
Residence.... • • • • • .
Residence of Referee • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • :
To the Provisional Directors of the North-Western
Trunk Railway, 3, Abchurch-laue, London.

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry,, and Birmingham, with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(provisionally Registered.)
(noes —(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 450,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Sir Edwin Pearson, 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park, Director of
the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland• street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. far Warwick, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth Railway
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, awl Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., lir, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
John I ucena Ross Kettle, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
T. E. Blzge, Esq., 19, Itryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurlce, M.P. Ckesham-street, Belgrave•square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir_George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Accts, Director of
the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Ruding, Req., Director of the National sank of
Ireland