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

PROSPECTUS.

This undertaking is designed to supply the wants of an exten-
sive mineral and populous district, the claims of which to railway
accommodation have long bees recognised, and various projects
brought forward to secure the .local traffic which is admitted to be
sufficient to support a railway ; this line will not only accomplish
that desirable object, but also possess the advantage of forming a
direct communication, by the shortest possible route (in connexion
with existing and projected railways), between two of the most
important divisions of the kingdom.
It is intended to commence by a junction with the projected
railways that will centre at Uttoxeter, from which town it will
proceed by Rochester to Ashbourne, Wirksworth, Cromford, Mat-
lock (where it will join the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock
Railway), and thence to or near Chesterfield, forming a junction
with the North Midland Railway, thereby giving to Ashbourne a
direct communication with London by Uttoxeter, and will confer
similar advantages to Wirksworth and other towns on the line, by
means of the Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock Railway, via
Derby.

The line will be about thirty.five miles long, and the most direct
communication that can be formed between Sheffield, York, Leeds,
and other populous manufacturing towns of the north and the
north-east of England (by means of the projected railways that will
diverge from Uttoxeter) with the Staffordshire Potteries, Stafford,
Shropshire, the densely-populated districts of South Staffordshire,
Southampton, Bristol, the West of England, and South Wales.
It is quite superfluous to notice that the through traffic, both in
goods and passengers, by the various railways which will concen-
trate to a focal point at Uttoxeter for Sheffield and the north, will
be immense. The goods traffic between Sheffield and the South
Staffordshire ironworks is very great. The district is destitute
01 water communication, with the exception of the Cromford
Cana,, which the line will cross at right angles, and it Is only
necessary to advert to a few of the prominent resources of the
country to show the magnitude of the local traffic.
The price of coals on all parts of the line is very high, being
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northern portion of the line will be cheaply supplied from the col-
lieries which abcund on the North Midland Railway, and the
town of Ashbourne and the locality (as to price) will be almost
placed its immediate contiguity with the Cheadle Coal Field, where
and is highly approved of both lot domestic and mane.
extensive mines of the Yard coal are worked, which produces an
fianctteunrsieng pti he t,

1 The line will pass several valuable quarries of Derbyshire marble
which is extensively tued in all parts of the kingdom 3 and also
numerous lead-smelting works and rolling mils, producing large
quantities of Pig
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and sheet lead. It will afford an inexhaustible
supply of lime for the highly cultivated land on the banks of the
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!actured at those works, which at present are carted to Derby, a
distance of more than twenty miles.
Already a large cattle traffic exists with the north, which will
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the corn,
cheese, wool, and other produce of the extensile and fertile agri-
cultural district which surrounds the Stalidreshire terminus of
this railway. It will bring the already large cheese and cattle fairs
of Uttoxeter and Ashbourne into greater importance.

The iron furnaces of South Staffordshire consume annually more
than half a million tons of limestone : some estimates make the
quantity exceed a million tons. It is well known that the iron-
masters give a decided preference to the limestone at the south of
the Peak, over any other that has. hitherto been tried; the very
great fusibility of this stone rendering it peculiarly suitable as a
flux for reducing the stubborn iron ores of South Staffordshire, and
were It not for the dilatory and exp ensive means of transit from
Froghall, it wuuld now be used, to the ti,tal exclusion of all other
kinds. The proximity of this railway to the iron district, the fact
of its entering the limestone range at the m.ost southern extremity,
and the advantage of excavating the stone kn mediately on the line.
of rails, cannot but ensure to it a very large sns,re of this enormous
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PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.
ULL, S lIEFFIE LD, AND AIIDLAND
DIRECT RAILWAY, via GOOLE, THORNE, DON.
CASTER, ROTHERHAM, AND MASBRO'.
(Registered Provisionally )
Capital
Deposit, 01. Os. per share.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co., Wakefield.
Messrs.,bc. Pease and Liddells, Hull.
750,000/., in 37,500 Shares of 001. each.

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
AcTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Billington, Esq., C E.

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SOLICITORS.
ykE.elw( eN. 1 , Esq., G. D. Barker,
—Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery.
Esq., Wakefield.
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PARLIAMENTARY AUENTR—MCSArg. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New
Palace-yard, London.

The object of this line is to form the nearest possible route from
Hull to Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley,
and other places, in connexion with the Midland Railway and its
Extensions.
The line is intended to commence at a junction with the Hull
and Selby Railway at or near Gilberclyke, and from thence con.
tinue in a direct like through or near Linton, Bellasize, Laxton,
Skelton, Goole, Thorne, Fishlake, Bramwith, Hatfield, Armthorp,
Doncaster, Sprotboro', (and its extensive Limestone Fields) Co-
nishro', Hooton, Rotherham, and to join the Midland Railway at
Masbro'.

The following are some of the advantages this line possesses:—
It will, by a junction with the proposed Manchester, Huddersfield,
and Great Grimsby Railway, at Doncaster, effect a saving between
Hull and Manchester, and between Hull and Liverpool, of about
forty miles, over any existing route.
It will form a junction upon a level with the proposed London
and York at Doncaster, and thus open the shortest route from the
termini of these projected lines to London and Edinburgh, and
also the most direct route to Chesterfield, Nottingham, Derby,
and Birmingham.

It will form a direct route from Hull to Sheffield through
Goole, Thorne, and Doncaster.
It will form a direct line from Hull to Barnsley, and the inex-
haustible coal-fields of Sdkstone, Worsbro' Cawthorne, Bretton,
Barugh, and also to the limestone field, in the neigh-
bourhood of Doncaster, which will be of great benefit to the agri-
cultural districts of Lincolnshire and the East and N9rth Ridings
of Yorkshire,
It will, by the saving of distance and of stoppage, accelerate the
maths between Hull and Sheffield, and Hull and ➢Manchester, at
least two hours.

The whole of the country has been carefully surveyed, and the
report of the engineer is exceedingly satisfactory.
No engineering difficulties exist, nor will any ornamental or re-
sidential property be interfered with, and the line is comparatively
straight one.
The cost of construction is very much below the average, owing
to its being a surface line nearly the whole distance, and the im-
mense traffic that will pass over it must render it highly remune-
rative to the shareholders.
An influential provisional committee is now forming, and the
names of the gentlemen comprising it will be shortly announced.
In the meantime, further information may be obtained from the
solicitors ; and application for shares, in the form given below, ac-
companied with satisfactory references, may also be addressed to the
solicitors, the Secretary, or the following brokers:—Hull—Messrs.
Flint and Tootal ; Mr. George Bowltiy, Leeds—Mr. It. Binney ;
Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Bari!; and Messrs. J. France and
Co. Wakefield—Mr. Thomas Nightingale, and Mr. Charles Clap-
)►.