The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

CMLIIIBIAN—W. HUGHES HUGHES, .Esq., F. 5.1.., P.L.S., &c.,

Alderman
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JOSEPH BROWN, Esq.
Sir William Ilacon Johnson, Bart. Charles George Knox, Esq,
G. N. Wright, M A. William Law, Esq.
William Bean, Esq. Stephen Lewis, Esq.
Richard Carpenter, Esq. William Shaw, Esq.

John Churchill, Esq.
F. J. Hall, Esq.
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.

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Robert Watkins, Esq.
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Derby —The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale —Messrs. Clement Royds and Son
Blackburn—The ➢Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and M.R.I.A.
ENGINEERS.
William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY A.GENTS —MOWS. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and' Coates,
SOLICITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30. Basinghall-street, London
LOCAL AGENTS.
J. Cressy Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., ,ipondon, Derbyshire
SECRETARY—Stillingflect Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally un-
provided with railway accommodation, into the populous. ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
ironworks —along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Derwent, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Ilyfleld, and Duckenfield, in reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Ilud •
derstield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.

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It is unnecessary to state here the character of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which Enklanci owes her accunu
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and Rossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
♦icinity of fiaslingden.

A branch will be thrown eut of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and liacup, to Todinortien.

The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mineral produce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk
lines of railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals—
the Cromford—the Manchester and Id—the lituldersfield—the
Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.

To the multiplication of ativantues which intersecting railways
and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
tion hi the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conclude that au ample remuneration /trr voted capital will be ob-
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