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

DUDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAlLWAY.—Combinlng the Broad and Narrow Gauges, in
continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line.
Capital, 200,0001., in 8,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)

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This line will commence at the station of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway at Dudley, and run into the line of the
Grand Junction Company near to Birmingham. It will traverse or
Pass in the immediate vicinity of the following populous mauufactur-
lug towns and places, viz.; Great Bridge, Swan Village, Oldbury, West
Bromwich, Handsworth, and Smethwick, and in its course it will
afford railway accommodation to a manufacturing and mining popu-
lation of upwards of a quarter of a million.
The names of the places of the proposed termini, and the above in-
dication of the course of the intended line, must abundantly satisfy
every one that it presents the certainty of a lucrative traffic both in
goods and in passengers. It is almost unnecessary to speak further
of so plain a necessity as that of railway accommodation for such a
district.
The wonder would be that the proposed line had not been esta-
blished long before, were it not for one very obvious and very po-
tential reason to which it is owing that this rich district has hitherto
been suffered to remain destitute of railway accommodation. The
district has been up to this time deprived of the benefits of railway
means of transit because it was one of the richest farms of the
Birmingham Canal Company ; and it is to overcome the depressing
influence of such a destitution that the present plan has been pro-
jected.
The intended line will not interfere with any existing line of rail-
way ; but it will materially extend the usefulness of the several lines
about to be connected with Dudley, and in particular that great
mining district trunk line, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway, as also the Shrewsbury and South Staffordshire
Junction ; besides It will afford to the populous districts around
Dudley and Birmingham the direct benefits of fair and liberal com-
petition in passenger conveyance and in the transit of their indus-
trial products to their principal market.
The number of omnibuses, coaches, and swift canal packet-boats
continually travelling between the termini, afford the strongest as-
surance of the prospect of a large passenger traffic ; while the bulky
nature and vast extent of the mining and manufacturing produce
of this well-known district equally vouch for that in goods; and
the whole leaves no doubt but that the financial returns of such an
undertaking must yield an ample remuneration for the capital ex•
peuded.
In an engineering point of view, it has been ascertained by careful
surveys that the line is highly favourable, and presents not the
slightest difficulty, so that altogether there is probably no line of
railway now before the public so much entitled in every way to the
favourable consideration of the parties locally interested, or of
capitalists in general. The former have already evinced the warmest
interest in the proposed line; and indeed it is mainly owing to
urgent local suggestions, that the projected railway has been under-
taken.
Ne further call (beyond the deposit) will be made until the Act
shall be obtained ; and power will be applied for in such Act to
allow interest at four per cent. per annum on the deposits and
calls from the date of each payment until the opening of the line.
An influential Provisional Committee will be published in a few
days. Applications for shares will be received until the 14th inst.,
and may be addressed to
Mr. F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcester, or Joint
Mr. JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley j Solicitors.
Oct. 7, 1845.

SHREWSBURY AND TRENT VALLEY
UNION RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 68, George street,
Manchester, October 3d, 1845.
The Committee of Management of the Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union Railway Company having this day unanimously re-
solved, that it is expedient that this undertaking should be combined
with the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and that
for thi.; purpose the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway
Company should be dissolved and its affairs wound up;—
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Notice- is hereby given, that scrip holders must forward their scrip
to these offices on or before the 31st October instant, and signify in
the annexed form, their election either to receive back their deposit,
which, in that event, will be returned to them without deduction for
past expenses, rto take in exchange for the scrip of the Shrews-
bury and Trent Valley Union Company, a corresponding number of
Shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company.
Parties who shall so elect may receive back their deposits forthwith,
on depositing their scrip.
Parties who elect to take shares in the Shropshire Union Railway
and Canal Company, may, in like manner, on depositing their scrip,
obtain a letter of allotment for a coresponding number of shares in
the new Company, which allotment will be forwarded to original
allottees immediately after the scrip shall have been deposited, and
in other cases so soon as the Directors shall be satisfied of the suffi-
ciency of the depositors.
Parties who shall fail to send in their scrip and notify their wishes
on or before the 31st October, will be considered as having elected
to receive back their deposits.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement of the
New Company, together with a Deed of Release, will lie for signa-
ture on and after Monday, the 13th October instant ;—in Manches-
ter, at No. 58, George-street, and in London, at a place to be here-
after named ; and tile scrip of the New Company will be issuable
immediately after the deeds shall have been executed.
HENRY TOO AL, Deputy Chairman,
R. FOSS, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Shrewsbury and Trent

Valley Union Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—Herewith are Scrip for shares iu the
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway, in respect of which I
request you to cause to be allotted to me a corresponding number of
shares in the Shropshire Uniou Railway and Canal Company, and I
agree to pay such deposit, and execute such deeds and agreements
as may be required iu respect of such new allotment

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This form must be filled up in the handwriting of the applicant.
* Parties declining to take shares in the new Company, can substi-
tute the following for the remainder of the form of application—" To
return me the amount of the deposit thereon."