The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-23 00:00:00

NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNT, and HERE--
FORD RAILWAY ; with Extensions to Monmouth, Brecon,
and Merthyr Tydvil, and branches to all the important works in the
district of Pontypool.
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, 2/. 105. per Share.
DIRECTORS.
John Barnes, Esq., Chorisy Wood House, Berts
James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street . .
John Brightman. Esq., Waterloo-place
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street
The Chisholm, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-Place
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P., Chesham-street, Beloave-square
Henry Garritt Key, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard
John Lawrie, Esq„ Charles-street, St. James's • • ,
W. M. Nurse, Esq., Cavendish-square
With power to ad i to their number.
Soucrrons—Messrs. Johnson, Farquhar, and Leech.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. G. and T. W. Webster.
ENGINEERS—Messrs. Rennie.
BANKERS.
London : The Union Bank of London.
Hereford and Brecon : The National Provincial Bank of England.

This undertaking will, in connection with existing and projected
lines of railway, bring into immediate communication with Birming-
ham, and the whole midland and Northern Districts of England, the
great mineral fields of Monmouthshire, as well as those adjoining Car-
diff and Merthyr Tydvil ; at the same time it will furnish to the im-
portant agricultural counties of Hereford, Worcester, Brecon, and
M onmouth, a ready channel for the transmission of their produce to
the dense population inhabiting the mineral districts of South Wales.
-The object of this company will be very materially aided, first, by
the existing line from Cardiff to Merthyr: and, secondly, by the
lines intended to be formed by the Welsh Midland Railway Company.
The line will commence at Newport, and will thence proceed
northward by. Pontyplol and Abergavenny to Hereford, where (in
that direction) it will terminate. From Abergavenny a branch will
extend eastward to Monmouth, and another westward to Brecon.
From Brecon au extension will be made to Merthyr, to join the
Taaff Vale Railway, ending at Cardiff. Thus will be established, in
addition to a free intercourse with more distant localities, a complete
chain of railway communication amongst the important towns and
districts just enumerated, and which are now wholly unproyidcd in
that respect. The portion of the line extending westward from
Monmouth will also promote the most direct passenger route that
can be adopted from Monmouth to Carmarthen, and the South of
Ireland. .

In addition to the main line and extensions above indicated, the
Directors propose to place themselves in immediate communication
with the proprietors of the most important works in the several dis-
tricts traversed, in order to fix the situation and the course of the
minor branches, which will be necessary to complete the comprehen-
sive scheme of communication intended ; and to this object regard
has been had in fixing the capital of the Company.
The investigations which have been made en the subject of the
traffic fully justify the conclusion that the undertaking is eminently
ealculated for the advantage and convenience of the public, and that
it will prove a most profitable investment of capital.
In conclusion, it may suffice to observe that it is well known that
the scheme of a comprehensive system of inland communication in
the districts in question has already engaged the serious attention of
the tribunal appointed by the Legislature for the initiatory examina-
tion of railway projects ; and the Board of Trade has, in its report
on the Tring and Oxford schemes, fully recognised the great im-
portance and necessity of the chain of communication of which the
present undertaking will form a material link in the following man-
lifer :—" The accommodation of Herefordshire, Worcestershire. South
Wales, and the important districts lying to the west of the present
lines of railway will evidently, at no distant period, require not only
a wide gauge railway along the southern coast, to place them in com-
munication with London, but also a narrow guage railway, to place
them in direct and unbroken communication, through Birmingham,
with the manufacturing districts and the great railway system of the
rest of the kingdom."
The engineering capabilities of the course of the line and exten-
sions have been ascertained to be excellent, and the capital proposed
will be ample for the construction of the 125 miles of railway intended
to be formed. _

—Application to be made for Shares addressed to the Directors, at
the Company's Offices, 65, Moorgate-street, London, or to the
undermentioned Brokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Mr. Isaac
Miller, Liverpool; Mr. May, Liverpool; Mr. Parsons, Liverpool;
Messrs. Brady and Stainforth, 11, Manor-street, Hull ; Mr. S. Grin-
drod, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., Manchester ; Messrs.
Watson and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs.
Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Bradford; Luke Arnold, Bristol ; George
Edwards, Bristol ; Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; G. R. Gllddon, Exeter ;
Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Andrew
Brand, Glasgow ; William Gordon, Aberdeen ; Boyle, Low, Pim,
and Co. Dublin ; Bruce and Symes, Dublin; Beaumont and Lang-
; of whom plans and prospectuses may be had.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford

Railway.
Gentlemer.—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 501. each,
in the proposed Newport, Abcrgavenny, and Hereford Railway; and
I undertake to pay the deposit and sign the necessary deeds.
Dated this day of 1845.
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THE WORCESTER, SHREWSBURY, AND
CREWE UNION RAILWAY, Sixty-seven Miles in Length.
Capital 1,500,6001., in 30,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Wiuiam Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square
Enoch Baldwin, Esq., Stourport
Pearce Baldwin, Esq., Stourport
Henry Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster
Henry Dann, Esq., 46, Duke-street, St. James's
Captain Thomas Fothergill, 37, Bedford-square, and Kingthorpe,
Yorkshire
Captain James Grignon, Charles-street, St. James's
Richard Heath, Esq., Stourpoit
John Heath, Esq., Stourport
George Harris, Esq., Stourport
John Knill, Esq., Thames-street
Major-General Brook Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-gate
Joseph Rogers, Esq., Stourport
Anthony Morris Storer, Esq., 5, Upper Hyde-park-street, and Purley-
park, Berks
Jonathan Worthington, Esq., Stourport
Frederick Watson, Esq., Stourport
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, P.R.1.E.,
Francis Giles, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Meisrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, London.
Netlam Giles, Esq., London
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. G. and T. W. Webster.
BANKERS.
The Union Bank, London
Worcester
Messrs.
LechCo.,me r eLd , oanndo nc
Messrs. Nichols, Baker, and Crane, Bewdley
Messrs. Messrs. Ro
Prieckhe,ar d,Broseley
E tons, and Co., Shrewsbury
Messrs. Taylors and Lloyds, Birmingham

This project, whether viewed as means of private investment, or
as a great public undertaking, presents advantages seldom equalled.
Forming a junction at Stourport with the London, Worcester, and
South Staffordshire Railway, the proposed Railway will pass up the
valley of the Severn, and through, or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of, Bewdley, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Much Wenlock,
Madeley, Iron-bridge, Coal Brook Dale, to Shrewsbury, and thence
near Market Drayton, Audlem, and Nantwich, to Crewe, where it
will terminate by a junction with the Manchester and Birmingham,
and Grand Junction Railways.
Besides giving the above exceedingly populous and thriving places
the benefit of a direct communication with each other, and railway
accommodation to a district now entirely destitute of it, the proposed
railway will alsl establish the shortest route fl'om the North of
England, Manchester, Liverpool, Ireland, Holyhead, North Wales,
and Chester (through Shrewsbury), to Worcester, Cheltenham,
Gloucester, South Wales, Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Falmouth, and the
south-western counties, and moreover will form the high-road into
the centre of Wales from the northern and midland counties.
Thus, the manufactures and minerals of the extensive and rapidly
increasing iron works, and collieries of Shropshire, and the salt works
of Cheshire, as well as the immense agricultural produce from those
counties, the Valley of the Severn, Herefordshire, and the centre of
Wales, will reach the markets and ports of Lancashire, Worcester-
shire, Gloucestershire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, by a rapid and
cheap transit.
It is considered that the present traffic between the various towns
on the line of the proposed railway will secure a profitable return
upon the capital ; hut when the increase which will arise from the
completion of the railway, and the through-traffic consequent thereon
are taken into account, there can be no doubt that the undertaking
will prove one of the most desirable investments in the kingdom.
As the line from Stourport to Shrewsbury will traverse the Valley
of the Severn, the works in that district must of necessity be light
and easy ' • the country also between Shrewsbury and Crewe is well
adapted for the cons ruction of a railway.
Applications for Shares to be addressed to the Solicitors, or to the
undermentioned brokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread-
needle-street, London ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Mr.
Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Mr. Isaac Miller, Liverpool ; Mr. May,
Liverpool ; Mr. Parsons, Liverpool ' • Messrs. Brady and Stainforth,
15, Manor-street, Hull ; Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ;
Messrs. E. King and Co. Leeds ; Mess, s. Samuel Hutchinson and
Co., Bradford ; Luke Arnold,; Bristol; George Edwards, Bristol ;
Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; G. R. Gliddon, Exeter ; Robert Allan,
Edinburgh ; M`Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; William Gordon, Aber-
deen ; Boyle, Low, Pym, and Co., Dublin ; Bruce and Symes, Dublin ;
Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter; Mr. W. Collis, Stourbridge ; of
whom Plans and Prospectuses may be had.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE WORCESTER, SHREWSBURY,
AND CREWE UNION RAILWAY.
Gentlemen,—l hereby request you will allot me Shares of
50/. each in the proposed Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Unicn
Railway ; and I undertake to pay the deposit and sign the necessary
deeds.
Dated this

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