The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

The line of railway winch is now p oposed for adoption is a
material link In the general railroad system, not only as connecting
the city of Salisbury with the county town of Dorsetshire and the
seaport and watering-glace el Weymouth, but as an essential com-
pletion of the channel of communication from the whole of the
northern, midland, and north-eastern counties to the coast of
Dorset.

The Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company (already
incorporated by Act of Parliament,) the Vxeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway, and the Rugby, Swindon, and
Weymouth Direct Junction Railway (both now in projection), will
supply ample means of transit between Dorchester and Weymouth ;
but the city of Salisbury, in which many lines front the east, north,
and west, are proposed to converge, requires the railway now sug-
gested as a natural extension of " The Oxford and Salisbury Direct
Railway," at present before the public. These two lines would thus
become powerful adjuncts to each other.
Commencing at Salisbury, it is proposed to proceed, its a slightly
curved line by or near to Cranborne, to Blandford, and thence, by or
near to ltere-Regis and Piddletown, to Dorchester, a distance in the
whole of about forty-fine miles. A grand trunk line of railway, from
the northern districts of Creat Britain to the coast of Dorset, will by
this mean: be perfected ; and the maiket-towns of Cranborue, Bland
ford, and Bcre-Regis, and the Parliamentary borough of Dorchester,
will also be furnished with railroad accommodation.

The experience of the last few years has abundantly proved that
the railwa: system must advance as a matter of indispensable neces-
sity. The hitherto partial operation of that system, whgstt it has
afforded unparalleled and unexpected facilities to the transactions of
business in all its branches, to domestic and friendly intercourse,
and to the indulgence of rational enjoyment and merc-ation, by ex-
peditious and economical means of transit, in those dire: Lions ::nd lo-
calities in which it prevails, has to a most inconvenient 1.7, tent pro-
duced difficulties hi other districts formerly sufficiently supplied with,
but now deprived of, the means of posting and mail and stage-coach
travelling. The conveyance of goods is obstructed by similar
obstacles ; it having been fcund much cheaper to adopt the transit
by the nearest railroad, however circuitous in its route, and though
remote in its most proximate junction, than to resort to the former
means of traffic, which have consequently ceased to exist. It
would perhaps be difficult to point out a district in England to
which these remarks more properly apply than the tract of country
now propottcd to be traversed from Salisbury to Blandford and Dor-
chester. • •

A prospectus, with a map of the line, and the names of a powerful
Provisional Committee, will very shortly be published. In the mean-
time, further information may be obtained tram Messrs. Elmslie and
Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London, the solicitors to the under-
taking ; or the Secretary, Z. Ilubbersty, Esq., at the (ace of the
Company, No. 37, Gresham-street.