The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-01 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION,

The Most Noble the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, Chairman
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WILLIAM SKINNER, the younger, Esq. Mayor of illockton, '''''
Chairman
Peter Fairbairn, Esq. Woodsley House, Leeds
Edward Tew, Esq. Crofton Hall, Wakefield
George Sanders, Es°. Alverthorp Hall, Wakefield
Henry Hood, Esq...Roundhay, Leeds
Henry Hudson, Esq. Roundhay, Leeds
William Statter, Esq. Wakefield
Dr. Buchanan, Pontefract
J. B. Faviel, Esq. Featherstone Hall, Wakefield
Robert Thompson, Esq, Stockton
John Grey, Esq. Stockton
ENGINEER-IN-Cl:lMF—Charles Vignolee, F,sq. F.R.S.
ENGINICIL--JallleS Murphy, Esq. C.F.
• RANKERS.
The National Provincial Bank of England, Stockton
The Leeds Banking Company, Leeds
Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co. Wakefield
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Wilson and Faber, Stockton.
LOCAL SOLICITOR—SamueI Shepherd, Esq. Northallerton.
By this line of railway it is intended to connect the free port of
Stockton with the manufacturing districts of the West Riding of
Yorkshire and the whole of Lancashire.
This important (deject will be attained at a trifling outlay of capital,
and ensure an amply remunerative traffic.
The line will he constructed from or near Stockton-on-Tees, to
or near to Northallerton, a distance of only eighteen miles, where it
will form a junction with the Great North of ,F:ngland Railway, which
will be traversed to Thirsk ; and from th4place the communication
with Leeds and the other important manufacturing towns will be
completed by a railway already sanctioned by Parliament.
It will be seen, therefore, that the communication by railway be-
tween the free port of the Tees and the town of Leeds will be com-
pleted by the formation of " The Stockton, Northallerton, and Leeds
Railway." The advantages of this undertaking are too numerous
to specify in an advertisement; but merchants at all acquainted with
the immense export and import trade of the West Biding and of
Lancashire, will at once perceive how hnportant it is to open to that
trade a port which, whilst it is as advantageous as any other in point
of distance, possesses fatrilities and immunities which none other
eau offer.

From the favourable locality of the port of Stockton, there is no
doubt that, with the additional facilities for the importation and
transit of merchandise which this railway will afford, the port will
occupy a leading position amongst those on the Eastern coast of
England.
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The project has received very extensive local support ; and almost
every landowner, through whose property the line is intended to pass,
has already signified his assent to the measure. .

The line of the country has been surveyed by an engineer of talent
and experience, and, from his report, the work will he finished for
14,0001. a mile ; and there is no engineering difficulty of any descrip-
tion to encounter.
Applications for Shares, in the subjoined form, may be forwarded
to Mesas. Wilson and Faber, solicitors, Stockton; or to Samuel
Shepherd, Esq., solicitor, Northallerton; up to -and Including Satur-
day, the Ist day of November next, on which day the list will finally
close, and the allotment be immediately proceeded with.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of The Stockton, Northallerton, and

Leeds Railway.
I request you will allot me Shares of 251. each in the
above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit
thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement when required
Dated this day of

, 1845.
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