The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS.

This undertaking is designed to sapply—the wants of an extensive
mineral and populous district, the local traffic of which alone is ad-
mitted to be sufficient to support a railway and amply remunerate the
shareholders; the line will not only accomplish so desirable an ob-
ject, but it also possesses the advantage of forming a direct commu-
ideation, by the shortest practicable route, (in connexion with exist-
ing • and projected railways) between two of the most important
divisions of the kingdom.
It is intended to commence by joining the Grand Junction
Railway at Stafford, and proceed by Uttoxeter, Rocester and
Ashbourne, to a junction with the Midland Railway, the
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Railway, and the
Amber Gate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway,
at the general terminus at Amber Gate ; a short branch from Wirks-
worth will connect the line with that town, and the important lime-
stone and mineral district connected with it. The line will to about
forty miles long, and by its connection with the Midland Railway at
Amber Gate, and the Derby and !rewe Railway at Uttoxeter, will
be the nearest practicable route from Sheffield, York, Leeds, Hull,
the populous manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and the north and
north-eastern parts of England, to the salt districts of Cheshire, the
Potteries, Liverpool and North Wales, and by its junction at Stafford
with the Shropshire Union Railway, will he the nearest route from
those important districts to Shrewsbury and South ales, and by the
Grand Junction Railway to the densely populated districts of South
Staffordshire.
The district is destitute of water communication, and it is only
necessary to advert to a few of the prominent resources of the coun-
try to shew the magnitude of the local traffic.
The price of coals on all parts of the line is very high, being carted
a distance of 10 to 15 miles. The cost of this indispensible article of
consumption will be reduced nearly one half, as this line will imme-
diately communicate with the Derbyshire and Staffordshire coal fields.
The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which is extensively used in all parts of the kingdom, and also nu-
merous lead smelting works and rolling mills, producing large
quantities of pig and sheet lead. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
Dove and Southward. It will open the Derbyshire mines to the
copper and zinc smelting works in the neighbourhood of Cheadle,
and will afford a direct communication with Sheffield for the articles
manufactured at those works, which at present are carted to Derby,
a distance of more than twenty miles.
Already a large cattle traffic exists with the north, which will unques-
tionably be greatly augmented by the facilities of this railway ; large
importations of Scotch and Yorkshire cattle will be brought for fat-
tening on the luxuriant 'pastures of the Dove, taking in return to the
consuming districts, the corn, cheese, wool, and other produce of the
extensive and fertile agricultural district which is intersected by this
railway. It will bring the already large cheese and cattle fairs of
Uttoxeter and Ashboume into greater importance.
The iron furnace s of South Staffordshire consume annually nearly
a million tons of limestone. It is well known that the fronrnasters
give a decided preference to the limestone of the South Peak, over
any other that has hitherto been tried ; the very great fusibility of
this stone rendering it pecan:lily suitable as a flux for reducing the
stubborn iron ores of South Staffordshire, and were it notgfotrhethsleaatortirdngiee.-
latory and expensive means of transit, it would now be used to the
total exclusion of all other kinds. The proximity of this railway to
the iron district, the fact of its entering the limestone range at its.
most southern extremity, and the advantage of exeavatin
immediately en the line of rails, cannot but intsoutrheetoinidtuastvrieoruys
share of that enormous traffic, if it do not engross the whole.
The visitors to Dovedale and the Peak are already very numerous.
When this line and the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland
Junction Railway, open this romantic scenery
zans who chiefly compose the great hives of population with which
this railway will communicate, and make it easily accessible to this
class of persons at a trifling sacrifice both of time and money, the
revenue from this source alone during the summer months will be
found to be of no inconsiderable amount.
The projectors feel convinced that this railway contains the ele-
ments of great prosperity, and that as an investment it offers more
than ordinary security.
The landowners on the line are favourable to this undertaking,
and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the
Provisional Committee.
Arrangements have been made with the Derby and Crewe Rail-
way Company, who take a portion of the capital, and give the line
their support and co-operation.
The Committee of Management are fortunate in having secured
the valuable s rvices of Mr. Locke, as consulting engineer, and of
Mr. Meeke, as resident engineer, who have assured the Committee
that the plans and surveys will be ready for application to Parlia-
ment the next session.
Applications for shares to be addressed to the Secretary or Solid
tors. Plans and prospectuses may be obtained from the Solicitors,
or front the following Brokers :—William Le Grand, Esq. Shorter's-
court, London ; Messrs. Cuff and Fox, Derby ; Mr. John Bakers ell,
Uttoxeter; Mr. Samuel Grindrod, and Mr. C. P. Allen, Manchester;
Mr. Slater, Bradford Mr. Wesley, Burton-upon-Trent ; Mr. Dean)
Stoke-upon-Trent ; Messrs. West and Tennant, Leeds ; Mr. Eve-
rard, Huddersfield ; and Mr. Jones, Ashbourne.

FORM OF APPLICATIO .4 FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Staffordshire and North Mid-
land Junction Railway.
Oentlemen,—l request ou will allot me shares of 201.
each, in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted
to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
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STAFFORDSHIRE and NORTH MIDLAND
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES in
this undertaking can be received after MONDAY, the 27th inst.
By order, THOS, RICHARDSON, Sec. pro. tern
Uttoxeter, Octeber 16, 1845.