The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

DIRECT BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD,
RE AWING, and BRIGHTON ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY,
(Registered provisionally, pursuant to the 7th and Bth Viet.. c. 110).
Capital 2,000,000/., in shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

Howard Elphin.stone, Esq., M.P., Lewes, Director of the Windsor,
Staines, Brentford, and London Atmospheric Railway
William Rradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, Director of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway
James Gadesden, Esq., Ewell Castle, Surrey
H, S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Isle of Ely Railway
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Isle of Ely Railway
John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London
Docks, and Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director
of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Di-
rector of the South Midland Railway
Major J. R. Wornum. H.E.I.S.C.S. Leamington
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway, and Director of Warwick and
Worcester Railway
John Ward, Esq., Sheffield, Director of Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Chesterfield Fire and Life Insurance Company
Thomas Kidley, M.D., Sheffield
John Armitage, Esq., Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield
Railway
D. It. Ross, Esq., M.P., Rostrevor, Ireland, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway
George Hammond Wholley, Esq., Pall-mall East
Alexander Andrew, Esq., Kensington
John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely Railway
Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Man-
chesterßallway
John M. Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of the
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of
tile London, Bristol, and Bridgewater Railway
Captain Tringham, R.N., Solihull, Warwickshire, Director of the
London, Bristol, and Bridgewater Railway
George B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Warwick and
Cheltenham, and Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, Birming-
ham, and Leicester Railway
The Rev. J. It. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square
C. R. Bigge, Esq., Bryanstone-square
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Broad-street, London, Merchant, Director
of the Essex and Suffolk Railway, and Director of the Chepstow,
Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway

Aaid a powerful local support.

It is proposed to commence this line of railway at Birmingham, at
a point contiguous to the railways from the north, and to proceed
thence to or near Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-on-Avon, Shipston,
Chipping Norton, Woodstock, Oxford, Wallingford, and Caverthain,
crossing the Great Western Railway at Reading, thence continuing
In a direct course through or near Oakingham to Farnborough,
where it will cross the South Western Railway, and proceed through
or near Guildford, crossing the London and Portsmouth Atmospheric
Railway, and continuing through or near Godalming, and Horsham,
to Brighton and Shoreham, thus connecting the great manufacturing*
districts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Der-
byshire, and Leicestershire; the iron and coal districts of Shropshire,
Staffordshire, and Warwickshire ; the Potteries„ the salt-works of
Droitwich, and the entire north of England and Scotland with the
southern districts; and perfecting a direct line of communication
between the Irish Sea and the Bristol Channel with the English
Channel, at its most important and convenient point.
By this railway the most direct channel of communication via Di-
eppe or +Havre, with Paris, the whole of Central Europe, and the
Mediterranean, will be effected.
By the junction of this line with the Portsmouth Atmospheric Rail-
way at or near Guildford, the very important port and arsenal of
Portsmouth will be placed in direct communication with Birming-
ham and the whole of the manufacturing districts.
The communication between the important districts accommo-
dated by this line, is now carried on by a very circuitous route, sub-
jecting It to great delay, which will be entirely avoided ; and this line
of direct communication between termini of the utmost importance,
without change of carriage between Birmingham and Brighton, and
Its consequent expense and loss of time, will also afford great local
accommodation to the fertile, populous, and wealthy districts which
are traversed by it.
To Berkshire, Surrey, and Sussex, to which sea-borne coal is now
imported at great coast, and with much uncertainty, Staffordshire
and Warwickshire coal may be conveyed by this railway at a great
reduction in price.

The products of the manufacturing dLstricts will, by this line, find
the most direct communication with Paris and central Europe ; and
the interchange of stone, lime, tiles, cattle, wool, grain, malt, and
hops, and all the produce of the districts traversed by this line, will
be greatly facilitated.

The intercourse already existing between the proposed termini of
this line is very considerable, notwithstanding the circuitous and
necessarily expensive route ; but considerable as it is, it must be
evident that such Intercourse, whether for business or pleasure, will
the construction of this direct railway corn-
mbeugnirceaattiloynp.romoted by
. . .

There cau be no doubt, that important as this line will be found us
a channel for the traffic between the termini, it will derive a great
profit from the traffic of the Northern and Midland Counties, and
the Continent, whilst the railways converging at Birmingham, those
lines which this will intersect, and the new lines now constreeting
along the coast, will afford communication with the entire of Eng-
land. _ _ . .

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The distance and time that will be saved by this railway are as
follows:

Milos.

Hours.

Distance by the existing railway
from Birmingham to London . • 112% Time occupied .. 4%
Distance from terminus of Bir-
mingham Railway at Euston-
square to the terminus or Brigh-
ton Railway at London-bridge.. 4 ~ PS • • .. I
Distance from London 0 Brighton
by the existing railway - . .. 51