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London, England, 1845-10-14 00:00:00

ERE►I'ASH VALLEY EXTENSION, and
ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN; and EAST LANCASHIRE
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. . _ _

C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Mid-

land Railway Company
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S.,- r.s.A., York .terrace, Re-
gent's-park, and Walney, Director of the Trent Valley Railway
Company
William Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill
Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London, Director of

the Thames Valley Railway Company
lion. Augustus Berkeley, Berkeley-house, Spring-gardens
William Illanford, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway

Company
John Bloor, Esq., Leetbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Tean and
Dove Valley, the Derby, Gamsberough and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion, the Sheffield; Leith, and rotteries, and the Shropshire Alin,ral

Railway Company
William Walker Botterill, Swallow House, Burnly, Director of the
Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Junction, and the York

and Rengor Railway Compa' les
Charles Bradley; Esq., Direct or of the Trent Valley Continuation,
and of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway

Companies
Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,
and Portsmouth; and the South and Midland Railway Companies
Louis Buckland, Lloyd's, Director of the Manchester and lt•agby

Railway Company
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield, the York and Lau-
caster, the Staffordshire Potteries,and the Rugby and Derby Rail-

way Compan:es.
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junc-
tion, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction

way Companies
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield, Director c.f the
Isle of Ely, Wisbech, and Lincolnshire ; of the Great Grimsby
and Lincolnshire ; and of the Direct Western Railway Companies
William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, near Wigan, Director of the Staf-
fordshire Potteries Railways, the York and Lancashire, the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighly, Halifax, and Hudders-
field Railway Companies
William Campbell, Esq., Fairfield, Ayrshire
Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman
of the Warwick and Worcester ; and Director of the Taw Yale

Railway Com pan'es
Rev. H. It. Chandos Pole, ➢i.A., Rector of Radbourne and Muggen-

ten, Derbyshire
John Churchill, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham
Continuation Railway Company
Major Morse Cooper, Wargmve, Henly-on-Thames, Director of the

South and Midlands, aint Thames Valley Railway Companies
Samu,l Walker Cox, Esq., Breadvale, Derbyshire, Threetor of !ha
Teats Dove Valley, and of the Thames Valley Railway Com-

panics
William Thomas Cox, Esq., Spordon, Derbyshire, Director of the

Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midlands and of the Thames

Valley Railway Companies
John Arc‘,ck Dixon, Esq., Bundy, Director of the Leeds and Liver
,pool, and of the Huddersfield, Halifax, Reithby Railway Companies
Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk-house, Tulse.hill
Col. Robert Douglas, Director of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, and of the Trent V,Rey Continuation Railway Companies
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Director of the Thames Valley

Railway Company
Warner Ewart, Esq., 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct, the Liverpool and London Direct, and
the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Companies
Sir James Eyre, Lower Brook-street
Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the South and Midlands, and

of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies
W. T. Fraser' Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester
And Rugby Railway Company
John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Manchester, Burnly,
Settle, and Carlisle Direct Railway Company
Lieut.-Colonel Sir L. Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street
Sir Andrew Pellett Green, Director of the Hull and Doncaster Rail-

way Company
Samuel Baines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the South
Staffordshire, of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth;
of the London and Birmingham Extension, and Northampton,
Daventry, and Warwick ; and of the Manchester and Birmingham

Continuation, and Welsh Junction Railway Companies
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, London, The Grange, Aifreton,
Director of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Company
S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Tetn;le, Director of the Great
London and Leeds Direct, and of the Thames Valley Railway

Companies
Robert Hammersley, Esq., Leek, Director of the Macclesfield and

Lichfield Railway- -
Frederic Hewett. Esq., Clapham, Surrey, Director of the Great
Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties, and of the Leek and
Mansfield Railway Companies
George Price HIP, Esq., Gavenbrae-house, Hampstead, Director of
the Thames Valley Railway Company
Roger Holinsworth, Esq , Birmingham, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway Company
Henry Holroyd, Esq , Burnly, Director of the Wolverhampton,
Chester and Birkenhead Junction Railway Company
John Douglas flopk.ins, Esq., Director of the Lond,n and Birming-
ham Extension, and of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway

Companies
Abraham Howe, Esq., Qheffield, Director of the Great Grimsby and

Sheffield Railway Company
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rlmabon, and Vale
of Llangollen ; of the Leek and Mansfield ; awl of the Great
Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, and
Parthenon Club, Regent-street, Director of the Chepstow and
Forest of Dean and Gloucester Railway Companies
Frederick I. Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick
and Worcester, Staffordshire Potteries, and South and Midland
Railway Companies
Mr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, and of the West Midland Railway Companies
Thomas Kidley, M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western

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Railway Bompany
Charles George Knox, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Inn
William Law, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway

Companies
George Lawton, Esq., Dutchley's, Essex, Director of the South
Midland and South Union, and of the Thames Valley hallway
Companies

Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Darley-dale, Derbyshire
Thom, Lee, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Ilyde-park
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Company
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood-house, Wotton-
under-Edge, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth

Railway Company
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, near Wigan, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and
of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway Companies
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham

Henry Blair Mayne, Esq., 14, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-square
John Mollady, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension, and of the Exeter and Weymouth

Railway Companies
Peter Morrison, Esq., Prince's-street, Bank, London, Director *film

Thames Valley Railway Company
Robert William Netterville, Esq., Cruise Rath, County Meath, and

Sackville•street, Dublin
John Gebrge Norbnry, Esq., Maneett%-house, Atherstone, Director

of the Thames Valley Railway Company
Henry Gerard Ohrley, Esq., Director of the South and Nridlands, and
of the Oxford and Wereesier Extension Railway Companies
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., 8, Upper Hyde Park•street, Director of the

Thames Valley Railway Company
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and

Carlisle ltaii;ay Company
Lewis Pocock, Esq., Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and

Oxford Junction Railway
The Rev. John Poole, M.A., Mansfield

John Rawson, Esq., Stoney R,yd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's
Great Northern of France ; of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England ; and of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Companies
David It Ross. Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of
the London and Manchester Railway Companies.
Henry Savage, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of the
Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company
James Shaw, Esq., Al4l:ed-place, Salford, Director of the Western,
York, and Lancashire, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and

the Rugby and Manclu.ster Direct Railway Companies
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Eastern Union
Railway Company
William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and

Thames Embankment Companies
William Simpson, Esq., York
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole•street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the South and Midlands Railway, and Belfast, Lame, and Bally-

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mena Railway Companies
James Smallpage, Esq., Green Bank, Burnly, Director of the
Wolverhampton, Chester, anti Birkenhead Railway Company
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Keiglily, Halifax, and Huddersfield, the York and
Lancashire, and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railway

Companies
William H. Terrell, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Director of

the Hull and Doncaster Railway
William Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
Thomas Hammond Tooke, Esq., Director .f the Bideford and Tavis-
tock, and Lando: and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Portman-square, Dorset-street, Director
of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Rail-

way Company
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath-park and Norwich, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Director of the Worcester and Warwick

Railway Company
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,

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and Portsmouth Railway Companies
Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest Hill
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Director of the Waveney Valley and Great
Yarmouth Railway Company
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B. B. Williams, Ljq., Wyndham-place, Bryansten-square, Director

of the DirectLon-dOn and Manchester Railway Company
John Wheelton, Esq.
Francis Sacheverel Wilmot, Esq., Storton-by-Dale, Derbyshire,
Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company _ .

G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Coelyn, -Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square, London, Deputy-Chairman 01 the West Midlands, and
Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway Companies

William Wright. Esq., Thorp-house, Norton, near Slistlield, Direc-
tor of the Sheffield, Barnsby, and Wakefield Junction Railway
Companies
Sir William Wynn, Meseynewadd, Chairman of the North Wa'es,
and DirecOr of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company

COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
CHAIRMAN—W. HIMILES HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c.,
Alderman
DEPUTT.CIIAIRMAN—JOSEPII BROWN, Esq.

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glr William.L
Bacon.. Johnson, Bart. Charles George Knox, Esq.
G. N. Wright, M A. William Law, Esq.
William Bean, Esq. Stephen Lewis, Esq.
Richard Carpenter, Esq. William Shaw, Esq.
John Church 11, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq.
F. J. Hall, Esq. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.

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BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Derby--The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale —Messrs. Clement Royds and ion
Blackburn—The Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and M.R.I.A.
ENGINEERS.
William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MCSSIS. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
SOLICITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghall. street, London
LOCAL AGENTS.
J. Cressy Hall, Esq':, Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Rlchardson Cox, Esq. Spondon, Derbyshire
SECRETARY—Stillingtieet Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally un-
provided with railway accommodation, into the populous ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Derwent, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity ofhladdleworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashhournc, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Ilyfield, and Duckenfield, in reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud-
dersfield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway.
It is unnecessary to stato here the character of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and Rossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vicinity of Haslingden. _

A branch will be thrown out of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near Hasltngden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and Bacup, to Todmorden..
The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich is
mineral produce. It wbl communicat!, laterahv. with several tr..7ik
lines o:*railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals—
the Cromford—the Manchester and Sit:al-id—the Iluddersfield—the
Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.
To the multiplication of advantales which intersecting railways
and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself hi so many directions will add
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
tion in the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to
conclude that an ample remuneration for vested capital will be ob-
tained.
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