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London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

rrHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
AL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGX, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL.

(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 15s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY AN.NOUNCEMENT.
The importance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

The Oxford and Salisbury Direet Railway, in addition to
•the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of communication be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, aivimportant railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.

The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commenee the proposedll ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to,London will be afforded to that place; and
a perfect line of row' from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hunger,ord and Ludgers •
hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts.

A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica
tion for shares may be made.

rir HE LIVERPOOL and DERBY RAILWAY.
JL (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital 1,500,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
Offices of the Company, 28, Moorgate-street.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Attwood,: Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park, Director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pine, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Director E.
it
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, n g
late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants o
re
James Henry Attwood; Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square - g
George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill Tg.
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern .1-4 E
Railway
Joseph Brown, Esq.,Director of the East and West of England
Junction
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William Chadwick, Esq.' Chairman of the Richmond Railway o
William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of
the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway g g •
Captain George Probyn, Bryaneton-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Railway I A
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of
London,
The Hon. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir Wm. Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
Sir James Eyre, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
Capt. Burney, R.N., Gosport
Louis Auckland, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
George Bovill, Esq., 3fillwall, Poplar
John Barnes, Esq., Charley Wood, Bucks
Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds
and Dewsbury Railway
W. Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, and Italian and Austrian
Railway Company
W. Bland, Esq., Buxton, Director of the North Wales Railway
W. Bevan, Esq.. 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square, Direc-
tor of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and Wales Railway
E. Chapman, Esq., Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway
James D. De Vitre, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
James Fearniey, Esq., Longsight Abbey, near Manchester
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Dire* Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West and Birmingham South Stafford-
shire Railways
James Horne, Esq., Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
William Halliday, Esq., merchant, Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director
of the Leekfleld and Birmingham Railway
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Jerdine, Esq.' Piccadilly
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T. Knit!, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South
Wales Railway
W. Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway
John Kinlock, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park-gardens, Director
of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, and the Great Britain Life
Assurance Company
Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
J. D. Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Richmond
Railway
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath-park, Deputy Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway
Robert 3futrie, Esq., merchant, 93, Watling-street,
G. Miller, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway'
N. M`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Direct Railway
Wm. Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct
Railway
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Direetor of the East and West
of England Railway
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
S. Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway
Geo. Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the North London Junction Railway
Thomas Rogers, Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway, and the Keighley, Huddersfield and
Halifax Junction Railway
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway -,
Walter Sharp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond
Railway
John Stewart, Esq. M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Esq.,
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of th
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorstin Hall, Malton
Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, Distiller
S. Watkins, Esq., Forrest 11111. near Worksop
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the &awash Valley Railway
(With power to add to their number).,

BANGERS.
Masterman and Co., London
The Union Bank,dManchester
SOLICITOR—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ANGINEEBS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.1.C.E.;
and John Belcher, Esq.
SECRETARY.

This Company is formed for making a railway from Liverpool to
Derby, and will, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby
Direct, and London and Birmingham Railways, form the nearest
route from Liverpool to London. It will commence at Liverpool, and
proceed along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to within a
importance of the Whiston Inclined Plane, and thence branch off,
in a south-easterly direction, through Warrington, Knutsford, and
Congleton to Leek (there joining the Manchester and Rugby Rail-
way), and from thence through Ashbourne to Derby. The whole
length of the proposed line will be about sixty-six miles. It will be
seen by reference to the map that this important line of railway will
form the shortest route from Liverpool to London and effect a direct
chain of communication between Liverpool and Derby, and will
thence, by means of the Midlands and other railways, open an unin-
terrupted route to the more eastern counties, and afford a complete
midland communication between the eastern and western parts of
the kingdom and the important intermediate manufacturing districts.
The most important feature in this railway is that it forms the
shortest road from Liverpool to London. The distance by it, with the
Manchester and Rugby, and London and Birmingham, will be only
188 miles, whereas by the present route it is 210 miles, and by the
Trent Valley Railway 200% miles ; effecting a saving of 22 miles in
one instance, and 123 miles in the other.
And as regards Liverpool and Derby, the whole distance between
Liverpool and Derby will be reduced by this line to about 74 miles,
thus decreasing the distance by any present existing railway, at least
46 miles; an advantage which carries in itself the conviction of the
necessity there is for the proposed railway, in order to connect more
immediately two such important towns, especially when these towns
are but the foci, as it were, for other railways from still more distant
localities, as before adverted to.
The distance also from Manchester to Leek (where the proposed
railway will unite with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway)
will be about 30 miles, and from Leek to Derby about 26% miles,
making the whole distance from Manchester to Derby only 563
miles ; and thus diminishing the distance by any present communi-
cation between those important towns by about 28 miles, an object
most desirable to be attained, and of itself quite sufficient to recom-
mend a line of railway embracing such beneficial results.
But great as these results most certainly will be, they are far out-
weighed by the very important consideration that, in conjunction
with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, it will also be the
most direct route from Liverpool to London.
The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of junc-
tion with the Manchester find Rugby Direct Railway) is 4731 miles;
from Leek to Rugby, according to the line as proposed by the tivatuo-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway, 58 miles, and from Reg
London 83 miles; thus making the whole distance from Liverpool to
London 1883( miles, instead of 210, by the present route.
With regard to the traffic and other detailosrceve
cttoedtwheith
great the
working of the line, it seems only necessary
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importance of the towns proposed to be o
with each other, in order to convince the )minds of all that the source
of revenue thus derived will be immense.
There are no engineering difficulties connected with the forming of
the line.
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4/. per cent
interest on all calls.
Applications for detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may
be made to the Secretary, at the offices, 28, Moorgete-street,
London ; at Mr. Bethel's Offices, 78, King William-street,
City,
London ; and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester, and the following
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North
Side, Royal Exchange, London; George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill ;
Messrs. Balclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange • Messrs. Mac-
kenzie and Lawrence, 38, Conlin ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese,
51, King-street, Manchester; Messrs. Marshall, Town-hall-buildings,
Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-b" tidings, Liverpool;
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds • Messrs.
Edwards and Son,
and W. H. Land, Esq,, Bristol; J.R. Lane,. Esq., Birmingham
Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Hud-
dersfield; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and
Co., Cheltenham; Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter; R. P. Lemon,
Esq., Bath; Joseph Clark, Esq Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint
and Tootal, Hull.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool and Derby Railway

Company.
I request you will allot to me shares of 20/. each in the
capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same or
any less number, and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re-
quired.
Dated the day of , 1845.
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