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London, England, 1845-08-29 00:00:00

London, August 21, 1845.

CHEPSTOW, FOREST .OF DEAN, AND
GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Through the Forest of Dean (with Branches to the Collieries, Iron
Works, and River Severn). to join the Gloucester and Birmingham,
Gloucester and Bristol, intended' Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, and Gloucester and Aberystwith Railways.
(Registered Provisionally, according to the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria,

Chap. 110.)
Capital 600,0091., in. 30.000 shares, of 201. each.
Deposit 21.2 s per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, (1r;;;enor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., Glanusk Park, Breconshire
W. F. Beadon, Esq., Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway
James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, Director of the
Leicester and Tamworth Railway
C. It. Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, Director of the South Mid-
land Railway
William Crawshay, Esq., Carfartha, Glamorganshire, and Cavcr-
sham Park, Berkshire
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff
of Buckinghamshire, and Director of the Buckinghamshire
Railway
Joseph Davis, Esq., Chepstow, merchant

W. Broad-street, iondon, merchant, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Edward Hall, Esq., Director of the South Midland and Northampton
and Cheltenham Railways
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., Alderman, Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Director of the London

and Greenwich Railway Company
Sir W. B. Johnston, Bart, Hilton, Aberdeenshire
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the South Mid-
land Railway
William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Fleet-street London
Sir William Twysden, Bart. '

Major White, 105, Pail Mall, Director of the Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of
Leicester and Bedford Railway
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire
Captain James P. Macdouhall, Fir Grove, North Brixton

With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Gravatt Esq , F.R.S.
• LONDON BANKERS.
Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand ; and Messrs. Glyn and Co.
. PROVINCIAL BANKERS.
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Moninouth and Abergavenny
The West of England and South Wales Banking Company and

'Trenches' ' " *- --
Messrs. Bromage and Snead, Chepstow
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking -Company and Branches
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport - •
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
STANDING CouNsEx.--William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Temple, London
SOLICITOR—Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport, Monmouthshire
LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-

Share
LOCAL AGENTS..

Chepstow—MessrS;Baldwin and Morgan
Gloucester—Messrs.' Ellis, Elliott, and Svrann, solicitors
SECRETARY—Wm. Protheroe, 10, Old Jewry-chambers, London
This railway is intended to connect the South Wales Railway at
Chepstow with Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Birmingham, with the
projected Cheltenham, Oxford (and. London direct), Gloucester, and
Aberystwith, Northampton and Cheltenham, and Manchester and
Southampton Railways ; thus forming an uninterrupted line of com-
munication 'from the &kith Of Ireland, through Flshgard and Milford
in Pembrokeshire, to Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, and London
direct, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the
North of England, by a less circuitous route than can be effected by
any of the projected plans for crossing the Severn below Gloucester,
thereby avoiding the difficulties which must necessarily be encoun-
tered in such an undertaking, and affording the important towns and
districts upon the Intendedlines dud accommodation which their im-
portance entitles them to.

The whole of the traffic upon the South Wales line passing to the
Eastward of Chepstow will be carried on this line ; added to which
the coal and mineral traffic from the Forest of bean (which, from.
tile Eastern side to GlEniceiter, has been estimated upon authentic
documents and information, at up*iirds of 300,000 tons ; and from
the Western or Lydney and ChepOow side the same amount of traffic
may safely be calculated upon), amounting to 600,000 tons per an-
num (the produce of the Forest alone), must be carried upon the line,
independent of the local passenger traffic and an extended trade in
the produce of the Forest, which will necessarily follow the facilities
offered by the proposed railroad.
The revenue from this source alone will give a very handsome di-
vidend upon the capital to be expended, which is expected will not
exceed three-fourths of the intended capital.

It is proposed to to the Collieries and Iron Works
in the Forest, to the present or any new Ports which may suggest
themselves on the Severn ; and to make the River Wye, at Chep-
stow, the port of foreign export, where vessels of any size can enter
free from the dangers and difficulties attendant upon the navigation
of the Severn, consequent upon the rocks and shifting sands in that
river.

It is 'intended to build a bridge across the Severn at Gloucester,
which will in no way obstruct the navigation; and the proposed
Gloucester and Aberystwith Company will no doubt be ready to join
this Company in the expense, if they obtain their Act. The cost of
the intended line from Chepstow to Gloucester, including the bridge
at Gloucester, and the one over the River Wye, at Chepstow, to join
the South Wales, with branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and
the Severn, is not expected to exceed 450,0001., but it is intended to
provide a capital of 600,0001. to meet any contingencies which may
arise.

A reference to the map will show the self-evident importance of
this line as essential to the perfecting the great project of the South
Wales Railway Company (who have obtained their Act of Parlia-
ment for a railroad from Flshguard and Milford Haven to Chepstow)
n connecting it with the principal railways of the kingdong, at
Gloucester, and making it the direct road to London, via Cheltenham
and Oxford, for. effecting which projects are now before the public
with most influential support. The line Is twenty-six miles in
length, has no engineering difficulties; the gradients and curves are
extremely good, and works light.
It may with very great confidence be asserted, that there is
scarcely a short line of railroad in the kingdom which offers
greater advant‘nes to the Shareholders than the present. Pro-
vis.on will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied
for hi the next SQssion to limit the liability of the Shareholder
to the amount of his Shares, and to allow four per cent. ou the
calls.

Applications ()Jr Shares to be Made to the Solicitors, or to
Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle street, and Messrs.
Backhouse and. Co. No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton-street, Lon-
don; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tato
and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ; Messrs. Bradley,
Ford, and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Dale-
street, Livapool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ; Messrs. Wil-
kinson sad Ballo, Hull; and Mears. Labertouche and Stafford,
publin.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,000/., in 50.000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE. OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STAN HOPE, Ashburnham House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq.; Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Harmer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Harney lligson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aidermary Churehyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
National Provincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Corn-
pany
George Peter Livkis, Esq., tho Grove 'Rollie, St. Cuthbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., B.C.L.,.Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S. Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
' Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culeheth Hall, Kenyon •
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H., Si. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq. Longford, near lf,inchester
Sir George William Esq.,
Bart., ofltheobalds, Herts.
(With power to add to thpir number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
sommoits.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
LocAL AGENT—Chester—John Walker, Esq.

The promoters of this Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup-
port which has been given to the project, and In compliance with
various recommendations they have received, hake determined upon
the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will
manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public,
will be attended with comparatively little additional outlay. The
project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway,
and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction
Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com-
plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in-
terests of existing companies.

The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way
of Trafford, Frodsham, and Preston Brook, to Warrington, thence
by Lymm and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the
main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in tho most
direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir-
kenhead.

As Manchester, from its gtographical position, is the centre of rail-
way communication between Scotland and the most populous
like cause, is the great centre of
dis-
trictsrailway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. of England, so Chester, from
To connect these two points by a direct and independent line
a.
of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in
a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the
country.

This line will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland,
and will be, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufacturing dis-
tricts of England. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex-
ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
this will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south-
western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and
Glamorganshlre. The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will
be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this line,
as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by
Birkenhead ; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while the proposed line is only 24miles saving in the one case 18
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss
of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the
water at that place.

It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render
'hester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequently, in the same year, by the lath Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again
nvestigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington,
and the practicability of forming a good navigable channel for vessels
of large burden, together with docks at Chestsr, was then hilly and
clearly established.

The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool, which is easy
of access (and infinitely preferable, in point of access and safety, to
the docks at LiverpOol or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden,
during eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps ; and the
'ill of the lock would be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20
feet water to enter at all tides, •

This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks,
will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To
the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important
a city ; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma-
nufacturing districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and
risks to which the produce is now subject. It has not been thought
advisable to combine the two objects in one company at present,
but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga-
mated.

W Merits
of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for
this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks,
ores standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any
other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to
the most convenient outport of Manchester, and will be quite inde-
pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a means of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been careffilly examined. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy tbrmation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de.
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should
ulterior arrangements render it expedient.

Applications for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and
prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share-
orokers :—Messrs. Shewell and son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 6, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26,
Austin-friars, London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. Birchail and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Benton,
J. B. Lock, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons,
Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver-
pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; •Mr. .E. A. Armitage, Wake-
field; Messrs. Grayston and Earle,.. York; Mr. Thomas Board-
man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherbun, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
Cronheitn, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thema, Holland, Coventry;
•
Mr. William Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire; Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyne • Mr.
Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. 11. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow.

Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitori of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon-
sibie person.

• •FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Gentlemen,-1 request you to, allot me . , Shares of 201. each
in the aboeC Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such
less number as you may appropriate to me, subject-to the Regula-
tions of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay,
when required, the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day of 1845,
Name and Residence in full .... ..... . ......
Profession and professional residence in full . •

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
nment of this under-
taking, RAILWAY. ,
At a
held meeting
this
day, it wasofthce Committeersov ie
d age
in order to comply with
the standing orders of the House of Lords, as recently altered, It is
expedient to reduce the amount of each share to 201., and to extend
the number to 50,000, and that the deposit required ha 21. 2s. on each
share, and that, in consequence of this alteration in the amount and
number of shares and the deposit required, the period within which
shares must be applied for he extended to the 28th instant for the
London applications, and to the 30th instant fur country applications.
By. order,
A. BARRETT, secretary.
29, Moorgate-street, August 14, 1845

ESSEX and SUFFOLK RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
Registered Provisionally.
From the Norwich and Brandon Railway at Thetford, by Bury St.
Edmund's, Lavenham, Milfbrd, Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree, to
the Eastern Counties Line at Chelmsford, and thence to the Port of
Maldon, with a branch to Cavendish and Clar.
Offices, 24, Moargate-street, London, and Sudbury, Suffolk.
Capital, 1,000,0001. in Shares of 251. each.
The Provisional Directors beg to inform the Shareholders, that
negotiations are in progress for a satisfactory arrangement with the
Eastern Counties and Norwich and Brandon Railway Companies,
the full particulars of which will shortly be submitted for their con-
sideration.
In the meantime, pppllcations for Shares may be made to the
Company's offices, 24, Moorgate-street, or the solicitors, 1, Gray's
Inn-square, or Sudbury ; and to the following sharebrokers :
Messrs. Hichens and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street, London;
Mr. J. Jameson, Leeds; Mr. J. Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. Card-
well and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co.,
Exeter ; Mr. D. Pane, Glasgow ; Messrs. Drury and Richardson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Messrs. E. M'Callumand Co., Edinburgh;
Mr. John Wright, Birmingham • Messrs. Collinson and Flint, Hull.
Shareholders in the Eastern Counties, Northern and Eastern, and
Norwich and Brandon Railways, and original subscribers to the
Norwich Direct Railway, will please to notify the same in their ap-
plications.
A preference will be given to them, as far as possible, in the allot-
ment. By order,
R. MAPLETOFT, Secretary.