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London, England, 1845-09-18 00:00:00

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TVFIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES \
LYI RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON., to
WORCESTER.
in *4 IViS kk.A con',
In consequence of important arrangements just concludedr •
nexion with this undertaking, an amended prospectus will appear In
a few days ; in the meantime the allotment of shares is neces,arily
postroned.
Dated this 9th day of September, 1845. •
W. 0. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall, •
F. T. ELGIE, Worcester, Solicitors.
JOHN CHINERY, Leamington,
Messrs. DAY, St. Neots,

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On theßroad Gauge.
(Provisionally registered.)
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Capital 2,250,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-Street, Director
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Major Beresford, M.P.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Wales Railway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir Joni' Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Pitch, 36, York-terrace, Director of the South and Midland
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland Railway
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester
and Chaster Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway.
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S. &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of e Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., &c.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London and

_ Middlesex -
Captain Alex. Nam'lton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby

and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Win. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway .
Chas. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Rail-

way
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South and Midland's Junction

Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridgc, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway •
John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of tile London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jeff Sharp, Dsplity Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Pariby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. P. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the

Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the,Trent Valley Continuation Railway
John James, Esq., Secondary of London
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth

Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge

Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln

Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide-
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester

• Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gl9ncester and Aberystwlth
Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq. Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Fenton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwlth
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Abcrystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, tittOxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin Furnis, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Leicester and Birmingham Railway
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Win. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Rahway - --
Tames Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Bromptou
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairhairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpolc-street
John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland.
Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May Fair, Director of the Grt,tt
Britain Life Assurance-office..
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of

the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
James Lees, Esq., Deiph, Saddlewortb, near Manchester, Director of
the Manchester Banking Company
(With power to add to their number.)
The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mußinger Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street.
SECRETARY—HiIton T. Jenkins, Esq.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Worcester—C. Geo, H. St. Patrick, Esq.
Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq.
Chester—John P. Maddock, Esq.
Wellington—George Marcy, Esq.
Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq.
The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad gunge trunk lines of the west are to have a
3ommon terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
lecided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourhrldge
a little to the east, the line is taken to Bridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and Possessing woollen manufactures awl iron
works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wem,
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed
to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpooltw and
Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue horn Whl h h, and
passing through or near 3f alp:is, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester.
In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worces-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the China manufactories of Worcester , the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages arc also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many other
localities.
to existing or projected lines passingin
As a link in the railway network of Englaraniodi,isodriraoos
directions, few
trord- greater inducement
schemes hitherto proposed appear to
southern
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travelling. This project constitutes
for investment, or a wider rangeofa
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that will connect Liverpool with
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Worcester, Is the half-
West of England ;—its
Lincoln,
and, eas:ward, to Warwick and
tion will be afforded west-
inus,
by projected lines a direcory,
twith,
ton Cambridge, e
North terhorougl), Harwich Lynn
and Hull. repeatedly and carefully examined by the Cora-
ward to Swansea and Ab
The line has been 1 reports that the rail f •
acting engineer, w•ro, many miles may
Com-
pany's
t natural level—that the gradients are in every '
bo laid on the na in-
stanceble—that the geological stmettre of the districts to
favourable—that
. 4,d is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
bo tral ers
munication is acknowledged by the intere.ta
seated on its proposed
course.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the eflices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen:—
Mr. Samuel Hanbury, 4, Angel-court,
London Mr. Whiston Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and
Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street
L verpool. • • • • • • • "Messrs. Alston and Gage.
Manchester Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wil-
t_ liam Marshall.
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f*Alesirs. Coilinson and Fllnt, an fl James
Bowden
Lochs
.......... • I Messrs. Smith and Perfect, and
tMessrs. J. Young and Co.,
Stratford-on-Avon-Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter....... • .. • . Mr. Thomas Sanford.
Plymouth Messrs. Hayward and Palmer.
Birmingham ...• Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright.
Glasgow.... Messrs. Tassie and Co.
Messrs. Robertson and Co., and
Edinburgh ... • Messrs. M'Callum and Co.
Huddersfield .• • Messrs. Wilson and Hellawall
Worcester • • • • Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Chester

Railway.
Geutlamen,—l reqUest that you will allot to me shares of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, an
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al-
lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary
Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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Residence • .• . • • • • ........ • • .• .
Trade or Profession .• • • ........ • ... •• .•

Reference • • • •
Addrege of Referee .•
Date .."r:1.