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London, England, 1845-10-23 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

THE DIRECT LINCOLN, GRANTHAM.,
AND NORTHAMPTON RAILWAY, by way of Oakhatn
and Market Harborough, and thence to Northampton, by the pro•
jected South Midland, with extension to Gainsborough.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 28. per Share.
(With power to increase the capital.)
Liability limbed to Subscription.

This line will also be a feeder to the several projected lines to
Great Grimsby.
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A detailed irospectus will shortly be published. Communications
may be addressed to the Secretary, J. Browne, Esq., 7, Whitehall
place, London.

THE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY,
and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, giving, with other
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross.
Capital 500,000!., in 25,000 Shares of 20!. each.

Deposit 21. 2s. per Share,

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire
The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban-
bury, and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborough and
Nottingham Railway
General Johnson, M.P.
William Collins, Esq. M.P.
Ralph Etwall, Esq. M.P.
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire
Joseph Ellis, Esq. Glenfield-lodge, Leicester
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.D. director of the East India Company
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gioucester-terrace, Regent's-park
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
George Meek, Esq. Russell-square
Joint Clement Ruding, Esq. director of the National Bank of Ireland
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton
William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director
of the Southampton and Manchester Railway
William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Com-
pany
T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham. Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park
Samuel Kempson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton Coldfleld, Warwick-
shire
Frederick Pearson, :Esq. Piccadilly
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq. Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Manchester
Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director
of the Erewash Valley Railway
Herbert Ingram: Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire
John Tathan Banks, Esq. warden and magis-
trate of Louth, Lincolnshire
William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin- Provisional Directors
cola
Samuel Trought, Esq. Louth, Lof the Great Grims-
Lincolnshire of
Louth, and Lin-
William Ward, Esq. M.D. Horncastle
in
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house, co Railway.
Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis-
beach, and Lincoln Railway
The Rev. J. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, near Melton-Mowbray,
Leicestershire
John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, provisional director of the
South Union Railway
Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester
John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
Frederick Cayiey Worsley, Esq, Inaberhorne-house, Sussex, director
of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple
Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Brampton
Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-hill, Devonshire
Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby
Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby
John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashbourne, Derbyshire, director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and 'Worcestershire Railway
Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tamworth and Lei-
cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway
John Hamp, Esq. Catton, Derbyshire
Joshua Harding, Esq. Rosiiston, Derbyshire
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire
J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby-
shire
R Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire
Jos :oh Nunneley, Esq Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Willie n Little, Esq. Peterborough, director of the Peterborough and
Nottingham Railway
I. P. Bainbrigge, Esq. Derby, director of the Derby and Crewe
Railway
J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D. Nottingham
Henry Smith, Esq. Gainsborough
William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Derby and
Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension
Railway,

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Chairman—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wlson., Esq.
Thomas Wakefield. Esq. John Smith Mansfield, Esq.
Ambrose Moore, Esq. George Meek, Esq.
Francis Valentine Lee, EM. Capt. Gnstavtui Evans, R.N.
John D. Cooper, jun., Esq.

CONS6:TINZi ENGINEER—Charles Fox, EN.
ENGINEER--JOllll Hughes, Esq.

BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, awl Boston Banking Company, Spalding
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent.
Soworm's—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole.
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS —Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—WiIIiam Ranyard, Esq.

The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearestnliam'
route
and to supply an important link of communication between tlrtooirn,
us
of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and Midland
districts.
Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereharn,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, and Wymondham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mld•
land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and Birmingham by the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Leicester, and Birmingham Railway.
The projected line will form the most direct communication be-
tween the eastern and midl Ind districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, via Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincoln, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many miles
than any other line of rail •
It will form, with othe cted railways, an almost direct line
across the kingdom, from nouth, via Norwich, on the east, to
Aberystwith, via Newton amrShrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.

It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract
of country at present destitute of this accommodation, beside,s open-
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of ti•e means of transit.
The central midland districts have felt greatly: the want of direct
communication with the coast; and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
It will afford a transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the north at high prices: it will also secure the advan-
tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland dis-
tricts will oktain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, which is
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.'

The propt;sed eapital will be sufficient for the construction of the

necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port of cern, cattle, and other produce of the great agricultural
districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland

districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now
In active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
Forms of application for shares, plan., and prospectuses may be
had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4, Tra-
falgar-square, Charing-cross, where applications for shares, accom-
panied by respectable references, may be addressed to the Provi-
sional Committee.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the ProvisiQnk Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray,

and Spalding Junction Railway.

gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
ca.. .h In the above railway ; and I undertake'', to accept the same, or
su h less number as you may appropriate to me subject to the re-
gu „tieing of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
05.0 When required the deposit thereon of 21. 25. per share..
Dated this day of , 1845.

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