The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

TILE CENTRAL SUSSEX; or, SOUTH•
A MPTON, PORTSMOU PH, CHATHAM, and
SHEERNESS DIRECT RAILWAY.

Capital, 1,500,0001, in 60,000 Shares of LIU each.
Deposit, 9./. 12s. 6,1. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
SOLICITORS.
W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall.street, City.
Henry Padwick, Esq., Horsham.

The object of this line is to establish a direct and rapid commu-
nication between the great naval and military depots at Ports-
mouth, Chatham, and Sheerness, as well as to afford to the Cen.
tral districts of Sussex increased facilities of intercourse with the
adjoining counties to the eastward and westward.
Commencing at the Bishops Stoke station of the South-Western
Railway, this line will proceed in an easterly direction to Bishops
Waltham, Petersfield, Midhurst and Petworth, at which place it
will unite with a branch from Portsmouth. The main trunk will
then continue by Petworth to Horsham, where it will fall into the
Crawley and Horsham branch of the London and Brighton Rail.
way. Making use of that branch, it will proceed from Crawley to
East Grinstead, and thence in a north-easterly direction till it
meets the South-Eastern Railway at the Tonbridge station, at
which point the Brighton. Lewes, and Tonbridge-wells Railway
will join, so that this project will also be an extension of that
scheme to Rochester, Chatham, New Brompton, Sheeerness, and
Gravesend ; then continuing in the same direction it will fall
into the Maidstone and Rochester line, at Lower Mailing, which
takes a direct course to Rochester and Chatham. The Ports-
mouth branch will leave the trunk line at Billingshurst, and pass
through Pulborough direct to Chichester, and reach Portsmouth
by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway.
The following towns will receive railway accommodation by this
line :—Chatham, Rochester, Caxton, Lower Mailing, Addington,
Plaxtall, Tunbridge, Penshurst, Cowden, East Grinstead, Cor.
hampton, Horsham, Itchingtield, Billinghurst, Wisborough Green,
Tillington, Petworth, hlidhurst, Petersfield, East Meon, Meon
Stoke, Bishops Waltham.
And by the Portsmouth branch I —Pulborough, Chichester,
Emsworth, Havant, Portsea, and Portsmouth.
A reference to the map will show that this line, if carried into
effect, besides affording to the rich and extensive district of central
Sussex a lateral railway communication, with which it is at pre-
sent wholly unprovided, will establish the most direct means of in..
tercourse between the whole of the south of England, from the Isle
of Wight, westward, including the great cities and ports of Ports-
mouth, Southampton, Salisbury, Poole, Weymouth, Dorchester,
Exeter, Plymouth, amt Fal.nouth, which will be connected by
various projected lines, and the rich and populous county of Kent,
with its important towns of Maidstone, Rochester, Chatham, Sheer-
ness, Canterbury, and Dover,—being even more direct by thirty-
one miles that the coast line between Dover and Southamp:on ;
uniting, also, the much-frcquented watering-places of the Kentish
coast, from Herne Bay round to Folkstone, with those of the Isle
of Wight, and the coasts of Dorsetshire and Devonshire ; and,
above all, bringing the great arsenals of the kingdom, Plymouth
included, into direct intercommunication and close approximation.
It should be observed, that this railway will also prove a far
more direct means of communication than any existing line be.
tween the Arsenals of Woolwich and Deptford on the one hand,
and Portsmouth en the other. By means of the Brighton Railway,
as far as Horsham, and thence by the proposed line to Portsmouth,
troops, seamen and naval and military stores, may be conveyed be-
tween these great arsenals with a saving of 21 miles above any
existing railway, especially affording immense convenience to the
troops constantly passing out to the East Indies and other colonies,
by the avoidance of the circuitous and tedious navigation from
Oravesend. In this point of view, this line will prove of essential
value to the Government, and must be regarded in the light of a
great national undertaking; and, moreover, cannot fail of proving
highly remunerative to the shareholders.
The opportunity will be aflbrded, by means of this railroad, of
establishing the electric telegraph between the most important
naval and military depots of the kingdom.
As regards local traffic, this line will not compete with any
existing railroad, but rather prove beneficial to all; and by means
of the various lines already projected from London, Dorking,
Guilford, and other parts north, to the coast of Sussex, which will
cross the proposed line. this latter will afford a direct access from
the central district of Sussex to all parts of the kingdom.
The merits of this line, already set forth, are greatly enhanced
by its peculiar!) direct character—by its remarkable facilities of
construction, and by its very slight interference with ornamental
property.

The entire length of the line will be 111 miles, of which 19
miles are either already made, or about to be constructed by other
companies, leaving 9: miles to be laid down by the " Central
Sussex, or Southampton, Portsmouth, Chatham, and Sheerness
Direct Railway Company."
The usual power will be hken in the Act of Parliament to
allow interest at 4 per cent. on all paid-up calls from the passing
of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liability of the
shareholders will be limited to the amount of the subscription.

Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company will be under the control of the Committee of Manage.
ment for the time being, to whom power will be given to allot the
shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all
the expenses incurred in its formation, and in the preparation of
the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament.
Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Committee of Management, as above, to raise
any additional capital, to abandon any part of the line, or make
branch lines, to enter into any arrangements with any other
company or companies, and also nominate the first Directors of the
Company.

All communications with reference to this line, may be addressed
to W. B. James. Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall.street, London; or
to Henry Padwick, Esq., solicitor, Horsham.