The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

lANKERI.

The Huddersfield Banking Company, Dewsbury and Huddersfield.
The West-Riding Union Banking Company, • Dewsbury, Hudders-
field, and Wakefield.
The Leeds and West-Riding Banking Company. Leeds and Bradford.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, London. .
Messrs. Westerman, and Co. London.
ENGINEER—lienry Emanuel Scott, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Charles Robert Seholes, Dewsbury
Henry Brodribb, 6, Child's-place, Temple, London.
LOCAL AORNT—W. C. fence, Esq., solicitor, Barnsley.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, Westminster.

The object of this line Is to make a short and direct communication
between the populous manufacturing and iron and coal districts of
Bradford, Cleckheaton, Heckmondirike, Batley, Dewsbury, Barns-
ley, and Sheffield, with the wool and agricultural districts of Lei-
cestershire, Derbyshire, Doncaster, Gainsborough, Lincoln, &C. and
the port of Boston.
The line will form a junction with the West Yorkshire, the Leeds
and Dewsbury, and the Manchester and Leeds Railways, at or
near Dewsbury ; and thence proceed by Barton to Barnsley, and
Wombwell, to or near to Wath-upon-Dearne, near Swinton; where
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it will join the North Midland Railway, and also meet the proposed
line to Doncaster, Bawtry, Gainsboreugh, and Lincoln ; and form a
communication by the existing lines with the port of Boston and the
south ; and by the projected Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway ;
it will also form a direet line to Hull, and by the Leeds and Thirsk
Railway, a direct line to the north.
The line will also be continued from Barnsley by Tankersley and
Chapeltown to Sheffield.
A branch will run to the various Ironworks and Colliery
ways, near Wentworth ; and another branch will run to tn. Rail-
Silk-
stone Colliery Railways.
A direct line of communication will thus be formed between the
important manufacturing places of Bradford, llieriey, Cleckheaton,
Gomersall, Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Batley, Dewsbury, Ossett,
Thornhill, Darton, Barnsley, Ardsley, and Wombwell, to Wath-
upon-Dearne, Doncaster, Lincolnshire, the port of Boston, and the
south, and also to Sheffield ; affording the best possible accommoda-
tion to the rich iron and coal districts of Silkstone, Worsborough,
Tankersley, Chapeltown, and Shefßoll ; whilst the wools and raw
materials used in the manufactures at Bradford, Pudsey, Earlsheaton,
Oleckheaton, Batley, Heckmondwike, Dewsbury, and Barnsley, as
well as corn and cattle, will be received by the shortest and most di-
rect line of transit from Leicestershire, Derbyshire,
Lincolnshire,
and the southern parts whiclrsupply these commodities, in exchange
for the manufactures, coals, and minerals of those districts.
It must be evident to every one, en looking at the ;nap, that this
line is imperatively called for, as up to this period the only rail-
way communication for the supply of wool and other goods, and the
are b th
conveyance of passengers to Dewsbury, Reckmondwlke, Batley,
Cleckheaton, Bradford, and the intermediate places (each containing North Midland
line by Normauton—a very circuitous route, as Appe y
lowing statement of distances of those places :
Barnsley and
Relative distances from Bradford and Dewsburyto
Sheffield, by the present route, and the proposed line :

From Bradford to Barnsley by Brighouse, &'td thence by

'illaLeeds and Manchester Elie, about •• • • '• • •
By the proposed line from Uradford, via Cleckheaton and
Dewsbury, to Barnsley .. „. •• • • • •

Being a saving of • • • • , • .. • • • • • •
From Dewsbury, Dailey, &c., by the present route to Barnsley
about •. .. •• .. .• •• •• ..
By the proposed lino •• •• •.

:sing a saving on 23 miles of no less than

Milea.

The present distance to Sheffield from Bradford is about H miles ;
by the proposed line it will be 31,—0r a saying of 20 miles.
From Dewsbury by the present route Sheffield is distant 40 miles ;
by the proposed line it will be 21,—0r a saving of 19 miles.
The same observations, as to saving of distance, apply to London
and all intermediate places ; and it is important to observe that either
by the present North Midland line, or by the projected London and
York Railway, this proposed line will be the shortest and most direct
route from Bradford, Dewsbury, &c., to London.
It may also be noticed, that from Swinton to Leeds by this project
and the Leeds and Dewsbury line, the distance is much less than by
way of Normanton.
The following table, taken from the Parliamentary Census of 1641,
will give some idea of the populous Districts through which the line
passes ,

THE LINO OP ROAD.
Bradford 105,257 Earlsheaton Soothill .... 4,453
Bradford .• •••••• • • •• • • 34,560 Ossett .............. .
6,073
Merle,' .. • • • • • .....
...• 9,512 Thornhill parish •.
• 7 301
Pudsey •• ... 10,002 Darton parish
• • • • • ,
,atir.o.e.
.7...ACEs (IN 1841),. 0,
•••• • • •• 3,583
is immen;te. •
Gemarsall •• ••••••• • • • • • 4
'°3 Fernley.a • • ...... •• .... 12,310 ,
3 537 Aresle
Heamondwike •••• • • •• • 1 Y•• • • ............ 2,320 '
Clerk
:: :: :: ......... 4299 Silksto,ne parish ••
.•.• • •• 18,559
Liver:edge •• ••"•• • • • • 5,985,W0mbwe1l .... . „ , 1,169
Batley ...• •••••• • • - '• 7,076 Watsh-upon-Dearn• e •p•;.-
Dewsbury parish . ..... 23,8061 8,910
10,600, Sheffield .
Dewsbury •••••• • • • • • • 68,186
A careful survey of the line and branches has been made by the
engineer, a..d the scheme will be submitted to Parliament at the ap-
proaehing session.
The traffic through this district
Power is reserved to continuo the line northward to Bradford, if
the Company should think fit.
Provisions will be inserted in the Act of Parliament to allow inte-
rest at 4 per cent. on the deposits and calls, from the passing of the
I Act, until the opening of the railway; and for limiting the share-
holders' liability to the amount of their subscriptions.
Powor wilt also be applied fe: in the Act (Ind in the meantime is
reserved to the Managing Committee), to abandon or alter any part of
the line, and to make branches ; and also to enter into any arrange-
ments with any other company er companies,
A liberal portion of the shares will be reserved for the landowners
and others having local interests; aid such companies as this line
may form junctions with, or with %whom this Company may be con-
nected.
Applications for shares (ii the form
..-- given below), aid for pr.-
speetuscs, may be made to the Solicitors, and also to Mr. Charles
Dyson, Sharebroker, Boar-lane, Leeds ; Afessrs. Wilson and Hells-
well, Sharobroken, Huddersfield; and Ilr. John Brooke, Broker,
Dewsbury.
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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Midland, BArnsley, Shefilold,
InGuelentalboemveen Dewsbury, Leeds, and Bradford Railway.
'—Colturpealinuyes yon
tdi toI
latlelroetbny'eagree to accept the same, or
shares of 901. each
ttny logs number, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2e. per share thereon,
and to execute the Parliatnentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required. 1845.
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