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

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry,' and Birmingham, with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)

Oftlees—(tempor'ary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 450,0001., in 25,009 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Matthew Gisbome, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Sir Edwin Pearson, 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park, Director of
the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
81r John Penniston Milbank., Bart., Great Portland-street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth Railway _ .

Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Jauetion
Railway
Major Waller, KAI., Deputy Chairman of The Smith and Midlands
Jonetion Railway

Lieutenant-ColonelHutchinson, F./Ls.o6, Upper Montagne-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers

Beqlamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, Director of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Itailvray

John Liiceda Ross Kettle, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
T. R. Biggs, Esq., 19, Bryanstoue-square, Director of tie Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway _ _

The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. Ckasham-street, Belgrave-square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of tks
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway

Sir George William Prescott, But., Theobilds, Hars, Director of
the South and Midland Junction It ailway
John Clement Riding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of
Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant fbr 'Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds hallway

The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburaham Howe. Chairman
et the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway

John Thomas Haworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manohenter and
Southampton Railway
_ _

Joha Sandirs, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
Londe'

Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.A.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-open-Trent

Capt. Gustavus Evans, RS., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Glsbome, Req.. Derby, Director of the Leicester and
rantworth Railway

Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlineote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq. brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Elul., Milk-street, Cheapside
. . . _ _

James Arbouin: Esq.; Mark-laae, Diree-tor of the London and Tort
3ia►ilway

Sir Richaid Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lleat-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledweß Taylor, Esq, 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Raihre,
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cress-street, City, Director of the Conunerefal
Bank of London
Lancelot Llewhellyn Haslope, Esq., Lifford, near Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Railway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway

John Douglas Cooper. Esq:, Holme Cottage, Ashi;ourne

John B. Story, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicester
Captain Holden, Locko Park, Derbyshire
The Mayor of Nottingham
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham

Henry Attenborough, Esq., Nottingham-
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Lewis Heyman, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Alfreton
_ .

Joshua Harding, Esq., 1108118 ton, Derbyshire
Morris Piddocke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent
Robert Collings lilbertsos, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Brstrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Bachsiuge-balidings.

BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.

The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,

Cogent-garden,

The Burton, Uttozeter, and .Ashb-ourne Union Banking Cempsusy,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.

This lino will commence at the Long Eaton station of th• Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle

I)onington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton ; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time a rich mineral and agricultural district will be supplied with
railway advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also *ow-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grhasby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and bt
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about twenty miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham, the saving will be about
six miles. Being the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby; and
by joining with the Erowash Valley Railway at Long Baton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district soath
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be about 21 miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospeotive amount of traffic,
the profits en the small capital required cannot fall to be highly re.
m unerative.

Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.

TABLE OF DISTAN

ICES.

By proposed
Route, about ""'

Warwick to Nottingham, by

Hampton and Derby • • about 71
Warwick to Nottingham, by
Rugby and Leicester .• .• • .do. 65
Warwick to Lincoln .do.•.••••• 97
Coventry to Nottingham • • ..do. 62
Coventry to Lincoln ........d0.........
Birmingham to Nottingham..do. 55
Birmingham to Lincoln ......do. •
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby ....do. 100

s 20
81
1 14
83 14
42 20
49• 6

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIAAES.
To the Provisional Committee 'a the Nottingham, Birmingham, and

Coventry Railway,

_
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the above railway; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to mc, subject to the
regulations 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.
Name in full .. •. • •. • • • .........
Profession and professional residence in full
Residence in fidl• • • .....• • • • .............
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