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

1B LIVERPOOL and DERBY RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21..25. per Share.
Offices of the Company, 28, Meorgate-street.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and-
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Athvood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park, Director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Director
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London,
late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Comhill ,
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of England
Junction
Wiliam Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
William Langley 'Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Railway .
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of
London, J
The Hon. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Slr Wm. Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the 1
Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton
Portsmouth Railway
Sir James Eyre, Brook-street. Grosvenor-square
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
Capt. Burney, R.N., Gosport
Louis Wickland, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
George Bovill, Esq., 31111 wall, Poplar
John Barnes, .Esq., Charley Wood, Bucks
Joseph Brook, Esq , Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds
and Dewsbury Railway
W. Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
3lanchester and Rugby Direct Railway, and Italian and Austrian
Railway Company
W. Bland, Esq., Buxton, Director of the North Wales Railway
W. Bevan, Esq.. 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square, Direc-
tor of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
G. Csl(Plhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and Wales Railway
E. Chapman, Esq., Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway
James D. De Vitre, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
James Fearriley, Esq., Longsight Abbey, near Manchester
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East. and West and Birmingham South Stafford-
shire Railways
James Home, Esq., Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
William Halliday, Esq., merchant, Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director
of the Leekfleld and Birmingham Railway
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
William Jacomb, Esq„.lluddersfleld, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Jerdine, Esq., Piccadilly
Charles.Kelson. Esq., Teirnmouth, Devon, Director of the T. 414 and
West of England Railway
T. Knit], Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South
Wales Railway
W. Knott, Esq., 4, AdelaiZe-place, Director of the Richmond Railway
John Kinlock, Esq., 21, Gloucester road, Hyde Park-gardens, Director
of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, and the Great Britain Life
Assurance Company
Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
J. D. Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Richmond
Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath-park, Deputy Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway
Robert Mutrie, Esq., merchant, 93, Watling-street,
G. Sillier, Esq., Director of the Manehester and Rugby Direct
Railway
N. 311-lann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Direct Hallway
Wm. Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
George Parhury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
S. Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furnese Railway
Geo. Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Thomas Rogers. Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway, and the Keighley, Huddersfield and
Halifax Junction Railway
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway
Walter Sharp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond
Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of th
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorstin Hall, Malton
Daxiel Watney, Esq., Wands vorth, Surrey, Distiller
S. Watkins, Eeq., Fomst TEL near Worksop
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).

BANKERS.

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Messrs. Masterman and Co., London
The Union Bank, Manchester
Sommoi—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London,

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rica and Thomas Hopkins, M.1.C.E.;
and John Belcher, Esq.
SECRETARY.

This Company is formed for making a railway from Liverpool to
Derby, and will, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby
Direct, and London and Birmingham Railways, form the nearest
route from Liverpool to London. It will commence at Liverpool, and
proceed along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to within a
importance of the Whiston Inclined Plane. and thence branch off,
in a south-easterly direction, through Warrington, Knutsford, and
Congleton to Leek (there joining the Manchester and Rugby Rail-
way). and from thence through Ashbourne to Derby. The whole
length of the proposed line will be about sixty-six miles. It will be
seen by reference to the map that this important line of railway will
form the shortest route from Liverpool to London and effect a direct
chain or communication beta een Liverpool and Derby, and will
thence, by means of the Midlands and other railways, open an unin-
terrupted route to the more eastern counties, and afford a complete
midland communication between the eastern and western parts of
the kingdom and the important intermediate manufacturing districts.
The most important feature in this railway is that it forms the
shortest road from Liverpool to London. The distance by it, with the
Manchester and Rugby, and London and Birmingham, will be only
ISB miles, whereas by the present route it is 210 miles, and by the
Trent Valley Railway 20014 miles ; effecting a saving of 22 miles in
one instance, and 121/, miles in the other.
And as regards Liverpool and Derby, the whole distance between
Liverpool and Derby will be reduced by this line to about 74 miles,
thus decreasing the distance by any present existing railway, at least
46 miles; an advantage which carries in itself the conviction of the
necessity there is for the proposed railway, in order to eonnect more
immediately two such important towns, especially when these towns
are but the foci, as it were, for other railways from still more distant
localities, as before adverted to.

The distance also from Manchester to Leek (where the proposed
railway will unite with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway)
will be about 30 miles, and from Leek to Derby about 26%
making the whole distance from Manchester to Derby only 5634
miles ; and thus diminishing the distance by any present communi-
cation between those important towns by about 28 miles, an object
most desirable to he attained, and of itself quite sufficient to recom-
mend a line of railway embracing such beneficial results.
But great as these results most certainly will be, they are far out-
weighed by the very important consideration that, in conjunction
with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, it will also be the
most direct route from Liverpool to London.
The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of junc-
tion with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway) is 47% miles;
from Leek to Rugby, according to the line as proposed by the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway, 58 miles, and from Rugby to
London 83 miles; thus making the whole distance from Liverpool to
London 188% miles, instead of 210, by the present route.
With regard to the traffic and other details connected with the
working of the line, it seems only necessary, to revert to the great
importance of the towns proposed to be brought into communication
with each other, in order to convince the minds of all that the source
of revenue thus derived will be immense. _ _

There are no engineering dillictilties connected with the forming of
the line.

The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent
Interest on all calls.

Applications for detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may
be made to the Secretary, at the offices, 28, Moorgate-street,
London ; at Mr. Bethel's Offices, 78, King William street, City,
London ; and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester, and the following
Sharebrokers:—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North
Side, Royal Exchange, London; George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill ;
Messrs. Balclay, Alison, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Mac-
kenzie and Lawrence, 38, Cornhill ; Messrs. Iloughland and Leese,
51, King-street, Manchester; Messrs. Marshall, Town-hall-buildings,
Manchester ; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ;
Messrs. Weilbeloved an Oastler, Leeds; Messrs. Edwards and Son,
and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol; J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham;
Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Hud-
dersfield; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham; Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter; R. P. Lemon,
Esq., Bath ; Joseph Clark, Esq., Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint
and Tooth], Hull.

FORM OF 'APPLICATION,

To the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool and Derby Railway

Company.
I request you will allot to me shares of 20/. each in the
capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same or
any less number, and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired. _ _

Dated the day of , 1845.
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