The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT~J
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionary Registered).
Cepital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the llon. LEICESTER STAN HOPE, Ashburnham House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, sq., Dldsbury, Manchester
Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Mamchester
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. Ilenshaw, 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 Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
National rrovincial Bank of Ireland
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
Directqr of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
David Price, Esq., Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., of Theobalds, Herts.
(With power to add to their 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
SOLICITORS.
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, hare 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 th,
main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in the most
direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir-
kenhead.
As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail-
way communication between Scotland and the most populous dis-
tricts of England, so Chester, front a like cause, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent line
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 manufactu, ing 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 front Manchester to the south-
western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and
Glamorganshire. 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 save by this line,
as coin ekl with the present circuitous routes by .Crewe and by
llirke • the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while tl roposed line Is only 31 miles, saving In the one ease 18
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
Chester 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 late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the river I)ee. It was again
investigated, 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 Chester, was then fully and
clearly established.
The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool. which is easy
of access (and infinitely preferab c, 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
till 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 Froposed 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.
Merits of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for
this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks,
or as 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 moans of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been carefully examined. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de
viate ftom the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should
ulterior arrangemeuts 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-
brokers :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs.
Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26,
Austin-filars. London ; Messrs. Iloughland and Leese, Mr. Locke,
Messrs. A. Birchen 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. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
Cronheing, Halifsx ; Mr. Charles Speucer, Nottingham ; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thomas 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. Ras, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Taste, Glasgow.
Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon-
sible person.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester
Direct Railway
Gentlemen' —I request you to allot me Shares of 20/. each
in the above 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 21. 2s. per Share.
Dated this day of 1845.
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