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London, England, 1845-10-09 00:00:00

ri-IFIE LIVERPOOL and DERBY RAILWAY.
A_ (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.)
Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
Offices of the Company, 28, Meorgate-street.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormead, Antrim, Ireland, and St. Alban's-
place, Regent's-park
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 Pirie,Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Director
of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company al=
I William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London,
late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants
James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square
George Adam, Esq.. White Lion-court, Cornhill 7 a
John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern p t
Railway 0 .0
Joseph ltrown, Esq., Director of the East and West of England a
Junction
William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway CI
William Langley, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the --
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway o
Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- I; 0
land Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of
London,
B. W. Aplin, Esq., solicitor, of Banbury
Barnes Austin, Esq., brewer, of Banbury
Henry Breadwood, Esq., M.P., 'Whitehall
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
Capt. Burney, R.N., Gosport
H. C. Burney, LL.D., Gosport, Director of the Manchester and
Rugby Direct Railway
Leuis Buckland, Esq , Avenue-road, Regent's Park
George Bovill, Esq., Millwall, Poplar
John Barnes, Esq., Charley Wood, Bucks
R. Berman, Esq., Donnington
James Brand, Esq., Tulse-hill
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., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
W. Bevan, Esq.. 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Wales Mineral Railway
John Bloor, Esq., Tetbury, Director of the Derby, Galnsborough,
and Great Grimsby Junction, and other Railways
Wm. Edward Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
Henry Breadwood, Esq., M.P., Whitehall
Josiah Brunt, Esq., Leek
Willimn Edward Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Blanbury
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western
Railway
Thomas Chadwick, Esq., Bedford-lodge, Harlington
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of the City of London
E. Chapman, Esq., Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway
J. Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street. Director of the Devon and
Cornwall Railway
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
John Naylor Clayton, Esq., Kippax, near Pomfret, Yorkshire
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director et the Worcester and South Wales
Railway
Robert Cook, Esq., M.D., Gainsborough
J. D. Cooper, jun., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction, and the Nottingham, Bir-
mingham and County Junction
James Constantine, Esq., Manchester
P. W. Courtenay, Esq., Temple
Francis Critchlon, Esq., of Mayfield, Stafford
J. A. Dixon, Esq., Barnley
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
John Davenport, Esq., Westwood Hall. near Leek
James D. De Vitre, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
Samuel Davies, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter, Yeovil and
Dorchester, Exeter and Exmouth, and the Taw Vale Railways
Geo. Dunsons, Esq., near Sheffield
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
J. B. East, 99, Eaton-square, Pimlico
Sir James Eyre, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Edmund Alderson Fawcett, Esq., 1, lluggin-lane, Wood-street, and
of Derby
James Fearnley, Esq., Longsight Abbey, near Manchester
J. P. Firnestone, Esq.
H. V. Firnestone, Esq., Lass ironworks, Stourbridge
Colonel Fitch, Managing Director of the York and Lancashire
Frederick Solly Floor, Esq., St . John's-lodge, Alpha-road, Regent's-
park
William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the
Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West of England, and Birmingham and
South Staffordshire Railways
William Halliday, Esq., merchant, Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director
of the Lichfield and Birmingham Railway
John Smith Hamp, E,q., near Burton
John Hemp, Esq , Calton Farm, near Burton
William Harrington, Esq., Woodvale House, West owes
Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton
Railway
Trophitnus Hodges, Esq., 65, Connaught-terrace, yde-park, Pirec.
for of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
James Horne, Esq., Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
John Madland, Esq., Banbury
J. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester Railway
John Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester.
John Humphrey, Esq., 31. P., Alderman of the City of London
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Jerdine, Esq., Piccadilly
Henry Judson, Esq., Richmond villa
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T. Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South
Wales Railway
W. Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway
Thomas Ridley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Great Western
Railway Company
John Kinlock, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park-gardens, Director 1
of the Newry and. Enniskillen Railway, and the Great Britain Life
Assurance Company
Sir Gregory A. Lewin, 32, Upper Harley-street
Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
J. D. Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Richmond
Railway
Captain J. P.Macdougal, late of Bengal Staff
Sir Wm. Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London
William Morley, Esq., Blackhead-park, Deputy Chairman of the
Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway
Robert Mutrie, Esq., merchant, 93, Watling-street,
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Surrey
G. Miller, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direst
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, Director 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
Perks, solicitor, Burton-on-Trent
W. S. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
W, S. Pother, Esq., Gresham Club
Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymore House, Manchester, Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
W. H. Richardson, Esq., Chapel, Southampton
Captain Louis Augustus Robinson, Rolleson-villa, near Burton
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
Ildlifax Junction Railway
Major Charles F. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Direc-
tor of the East and West of England Junction
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Railway
H. R. Seymour, Esq., 19, Montagu-place
Christopher• Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq.' Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the
Rugby Manchester and Direct Railway
Sydney, Esq., Alderman of the city of London
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Imo
Railway
The Rev. John Sneyd, Buford Hall. near Leek
John Squire, Esq., Leek
Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., Hooton• hall, Cheshire
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Tomlinson, of Bradley Pastures, near Ashborne
Caleb Trotter, Esq., College-green, Gloucester
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorstin Hall, Mellott
John Vaughan, 26, Austin-friars
Rev. Richard Ward, Calton, near Leeds
Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, Distiller
William Walker, Esq., Lea Wood Mattock, Derbyshire
S. Watkins, Esq., Forrest Hill. near Worksop
C. D. W, Westlake, Esq., Southampton
James Atkinson West, Esq., Western-lodge, Durham, Director- of
the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort-house, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Railway
11. Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, Director of the Manchester
and Rugby Direct Railway
Andrew Jukes Worthington, Esq., Leek
Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter
(With power to add to their number).
BANKERS.
Messrs. Masterman and Co., London
The Union Bank, Manchester
SoLlciTouJohn Ilethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London.

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.1.C.E.;
and John Belcher, Esq.
SECRETARY.

This Cempany 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
short distance of the Whiston Inclined Plane, and thence branch off,
in a south-easterly direction, through Warrington, Kuutsford, 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 12% 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 advantege which carries in itself the conviction of the
necessity there is for the propoied railway, iu order to eonneet more
immediately two such important towns, especially when these towns
are but the foci, as it were, far other railways from still more distant
localities, as before adverted to.
railway will unite with the Manchester and Rugby I)
6v
miles) The distance also from Manchester to Leek (wherier,,tchteiplairolpwosayel
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only 56%
will be about 30 miles, and from Le3erkan
making the whole distance from
by
any present communi-
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28miles, object
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to be attained, and of itself quite sufficient to recom-
mend desirable
cation between those important towns by about an
men
But great as these results most certainly will be, they are far out-
embracing such beneficial results.
important consideration that, in conjunction
d a line of railway
eighed by the very
with he Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, It will also be the
The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of junc-
tiondi with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway) is 47% miles;
from Leek to Rugby, according to the line as proposed by the Man-
chester and Rugby Direct Railway, 58 miles, and from Rugby to
London 83 miles ; thus making the whole distance frets) Liverpool to
with the
London 188% miles, insteadtraffi cofalldo,otbhyetrhedeptraesilesncot rnonueteeted.
necessary to revert to the great
to be brought into communication
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with each other, in order to convince the minds of all that the source
of revenue thus derived will be immens connected immense.
with the forming of.
There are no engineering difticultie
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, Moorgate-street,
at Mr. Bethel's Offices, 78, King William-street, City, Loudon ;