The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Steven—s,--a-147.11.1- aples, Frederick's-place, Old

Jewry, London
Messrs. Bridges and Mason, Red Lion-13quare, London
Messrs. Stone and Paget, Leicester
P. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
John Chtnery, Esq., Leamington
Messrs. P. Dyott and Son, Lichfield.
Barnum—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., London.

The Directors have to congratulate the shareholders of the Lei-
cester and Tamworth Junction, and of tine Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir-
mingham, and Leicester Railway Companies, on the union of inte-
rests which has been effected by the anutittamation of the two Com-
panies under the title of " The Leicestt x, Tamworth, Coventry,
Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junction Railway Company," whereby
such an accession of strength has been obtained as to ensure a
successful issue to their application to Picrliament during the next
session.
By this arrangement the shareholders, in each Company are en-
titled to exchange the shares they now held in the separate Com-
panies for a like number in the united Company. or at their option to
receive back the full amount of their deposits.
One branch of this railway will com mence at or near the Wigton
station, near Leicester, on the Midlands Railway, where it will unite
with the proposed South Midland Railway, thereby opening a com-
munication with Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, Bedford-
shire, and the south, and will proceed through Hinckley and Nun-
eaton to Coventry, forming a junction vti ith the Trent Valley Rail-
way at Nuneaton
Another branch will proceed from the Midlands Railway at
Leicester, by Market Bosworth to Atlwrstone, where it will unite
with the Trent Valley Railway.
Surveys for the proposed extension to E irmingham are In a state of
great forwardness.
The objects embraced by the Compstn.y as now constituted are
threefold :
First—To effect a direct communicatfron between Leicester and
Liverpool, by means of the junction with' the Trent Valley Railway
at or near Atherstone, thereby effecting a saving in distance of 30
miles.
Secondly—To afford the most direst communication between
Leicester, Birmingham, and the iron districts of Staffordshire, by
means of a junction with the Birrninghazat and Derby Railway at the
Whitettere station, thereby reducing the distance between Birming-
ham and Leicester from 49 to 35 mills.
Thirdly—To connect the important tow na of Coventry, Bosworth,
Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester by t.. 1 ,e nearest practicable line,
thereby reducing the distance between Coventry and Leicester seven
miles, and affording ...Away accommodation to the important manu-
facturing and mineral districts of bout n beteeateteldro and North
Warwickshire, and also communicating:, by means of the Coventry
branch of the London and Birmingham Railway, with Leamington,
and by means of the projected WarwielK and Cheltenham Railway
with Cheltenham.
The proposed line will afford an outlet, by means of a branch to
the Leicester and Swannington Railway., for the coal, lime, and other
mineral productions of Leicestershire. to the districts south and
west of Leicester.
The four important towns of Leicester, Coventry, Tamworth, and
Birmingham, containing a population of upwards of 300,000, will
be brought by this railway into immedit de connexion.
The country has been carefully surn, eyed, and the Parliamentary
plans and sections are nearly perfected.
By order,
J. B. ICATHBO.).4`E, Sec. pro tem.
Offices of the Company, 4, Colemai t.street, London,
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2d OCtoliir, 1845

SPALDING AND BRANDON JUNCTION
RA ILW.P
(ProYisionally Met fistered.)
Capital 500,000/., in 25,000 Shares of loreach:
Deposit V. 2s. iaer Share.
PROVISIONAL DIX ECTORS.
Adam Duff, Esq.
Captain Tyndale Directors of the -Norfolk Railway Company
Captain Wardell,
Sir George Larpent, Bart.
Directo i's of the Grand Union Railway
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P. r 4!...rottingham) Company
Thomas Wakefield, Esq.,
BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Co.
ENGINEERS—Robert Stephenson, E Set. ; Charles Vignoles, Esq. ;
George Parker Bi d der, Esq.
soucrroa •
Messrs. Parker, Hayes, and Co., Lincoln's Inn-fields
Messrs. Capes and Stuart, Field -court, Gray's Inn.
SECRETARIES—Richard Till, Esc t. ; Alfred Beeston, Esq.
Company's Offices, 78, C onthill, London.

This line is projected by the 11orfol Railway Company and the
Grand Union Railway Company, and it will form a connecting link
between those two lines. _ _

Leaving the station of the Norfolk Ct .mpany at Brandon, the line
proceeds via Downham Market to Wiese ch, and from thence to Spald-
ing, being a distance of about 40 miles.. At the latter town it joins
the Grand Union Railway, which con tt nues via Grantham to Not-
tingham, thus completing a direct and it dependent line of communi-
cation between Yarmouth and Norw lc h, and Nottingham and the
manufacturing districts.
The distance between the termini wilt be as short by the proposed
route as by the Lynn and Ely and Lyn r i and Dereltam IMes ; whilst
the trait:: between Nottingham. Yarmcs ith, and Norwich, and the
central, west, and south parts of Norfoll c, the north of Cambridge-
shire, and the counties of Suffolk and Es sex, being under the control
of friendly Companies, will be secured f this undertaking.
Estimates for the traffic are in course,. of preparation. In the mean-
time it may be stated that, from the da t t already furnished respecting
some of the important Mc:titles throng h which the line passes, added
to the fact that it forms part of a direr I course of railway communi-
cation between Manchester and the se **rounding manufacturing dis-
tricts, and the ports of Yarmouth and ; Lynn, there is no doubt an
ample reimmeration will be secured for t 'le shareholders.
Satisfactory arrangements have bee st made with the Eastern
Counties Railway Company in refei•ence• to that portion of the line
between Wisbech and Spalding*, which hft 3 been agreed to be leased
by them from the Wisbech and St. Ives a mmany.
If the Wisbech and St. Ives Company s uccaed in their application
to Parliament, the line to be made by ti ‘a Company will be limited
to that part between Wisbech and Bran don ; and in either case the
two Companies promoting this line have tweed to take a lease of it at
a rental equal to 4 per cent. on the outla, f, and a moiety of the sur-
plus profits.
In the allotment of shares preference e'en- be given to the share-
holders of the Norfolk and Grand Union) %ailvray Companies.
Applications to be addressed to Richert I Till, Esq., Norfolk Rail-
way Company, Guildhall-buildings ; or to Altresl Beestoa, Esq.,
'l3, Cornhill.