The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-09 00:00:00

KENT and ESSEX- UNION RAILWAY,
connecting the Southern Coast of Essex with Dover and the
Continent, via Sheerness, Faversham, and Canterbury, with a Junc-
tion Line to Herne Bay, Margate, Itamsgate, and Deal.
Capital 550,0001., in 27,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
With power to add to their number.
John Brough, Esq., Herne Bay
George Burge, Esq., Herne Bay

John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the
London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay, and Alderman of Bristol

Edward B. Davis, Esq., Rochester.

Lewis Levy, Esq., Tali/stock-square

John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn
Conunission
The lion. Capt. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the Voris
and Lancaster Railway
Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton
Edward Sherman, Esq., .'st. Martin's-le-Grand.

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ENGlNEER—Williazil Tierney Clark, Esq., M.I.C.E. and F.R.S.
SURVEYOR—J. M. Davey, Esq.
BANKERS—Union hank of London, Princes-street and Pall-mall East.

SOLICiTORS.
Goorge Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square
William Rogers, Esq., 1, Moorgate, London
James White, Esq., Canterbury.
Temporary Offices or the Cot pauy, 34, Coleman. street.

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This railway will commence at Sheerness in conjunction with a
short steam-ferry communication from a point at or near to South-
end, on the opposite Essex coast, and will proceed from Sheerness
by Queenborough to Faversham, where it will form a junction with
one of the proposed lines from Loudon by that town to Canterbury
and Dover.

The integral line will be continued from Faversham to or near to
Herne Bay, and from thence to the South-Eastern Extension
Railway (now being made), at a point near Sarr, and will then pro-
ceed on that line direct ti Ramsgate eastwards, and direct to Veal
south-eastwards. From a point between Herne Bay and Sarr the
line will also be carried by a short extens!on to Margate.
By this project Margate will be placed within 75 miles of the me-
tropolis, instead of more than 100, as at present, and the, too, by a
direct line through Faversham, at which place it will meet the Lon-
don lines.

The important town of Ramsgate, now so extensively connected
with continental communication, will also be thus afforded a much
nearer overland route to London ; and Deal, Ramsgate, Margate,
Herne Bay, Sheerness, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Woolwich,
Greenwich, and London, will all be placed in immediate or easy con-
nexion upon one continuous line of railway.
By means also of this undertaking, in conjunctbn with the exist-
ing and projected railways proceeding to the south coast of Essex,
the whole of the passengers and traffic from Liverpool, Manchester,
Leeds, Hull, York, and the Northern, the Midland, and the
Eastern Counties, will be conveyed to Dover and the Conti-
nent via Sheerness, in preference to a lengthened and cir-
cuitous route through the metropolis, whereby the journey will be
shortened more than 50 miles, travelling expenses will be curtailed,
and the serious inconvenience and delay of transhipment and con-
veyance from one part of London to anotherwholly avoided.
A glance at the map also will show the immense advantage which
the metropolis itself will enjoy by its being thus afforded other routes
to the coast of Kent. The millions who annually seek pleasure in
excursions to Gravesend, Sheerness, Southend, Herne Bay, Margate,
Ramsgate, Deal, and Dover, will have a choice of different routes.
They may proceed by railway, on the Essex side of the Thames, to
the Thames Haven, Tilbury Fort, or Southend—pass over to Sheer-
ness by water, and thence proceed direct by this railway—or they
may reach Sheerness wholly by water, and then avoid the sea—or,
may pass at once from London, on the Surrey side of the Thames,
to Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, by railway in a
direct line, consuming only about two hours in the journey, and may
vary their pleasure by going In one direction and returning by
another.
Independently of the vast multitudes who will thus seek health
and recreation, the importance, as a national object, of connecting ail
the above-mentioned towns, and giving a direct line from Sheerness to
Dover, together with the immense existing traffic in the direction of
the undertaking, and the great increase which the improved and
enlarged modes of communication throughout Kent will occasion,
trust be too apparent to need further observation; and the Commit-
tee, from careful inquiry, feel confidence in stating that no scheme et
railway has yet been offered to public attention combining greater
public and private advantages.
About thirty-six miles of new railway only will embrace all the
above important objects—viz., from Sheerness to Faversham
about

Faversham to Herne Bay ••••••••• • • • • • • • •
Thence to Sarr •• • • • •• •
The extension to Margate • • ...• • • • .......

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The country has already been preliminary surveyed, and found to
be exceedingly favourable. Indeed, it is almost a dead flat from
Faversham to Margate.
The landed proprietors are not only willing but desirous that the
undertaking should be accomplished, and it is at the request of many
of them that the promoters have determined on prosecuting it.
The Committee reserve the power of making branches to Canter-
bury
and to Deal, if circumstances should hereafter render it ad-
visable.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted to the amount
of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for in t
n tilleepßasilsliotog
allow interest, at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls, from
of the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares,may be made to
the solicitors or secreta7, at the temporary offices, 34, Colemal
street, or at No. 2, Hercules-passage, City ; and the following share--
brokers :
Mr. Miles, Worcester
Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester
Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool
Messrs. Cameron and Co. Liverpool
Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool
Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield
Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mf. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn
Mr. George Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Mason, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cronhelm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York
Mr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds
Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham
Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton
Messrs. Tate and Nash Bristol
Messrs. Beaumont and 'Langworthy, Exeter
Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter
Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Slieflield
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmin m
gha
Mr. L. Wea herburn, jun., Huddersfield
Messrs. Everard and Co., I ludclersfield
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson,
Glasgow
Dublin
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green,
Mr. James Ross, Perth.
To the Provisional Committee of the Kent and Essex Union Railway.
I request you will lallot me shares in the proposed Kelt
and Essex Union Railway, and I agree to take all such shares, or so
many as may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and
to execute tile parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
when requirial so to do.

Name

Description
Residence—

Reference to

Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Darley.dale, Derbyshire
Thomas Lee, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park
Stephen Lewis. Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Company
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood-house, Wotton-
under-Edge, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth
Railway Company
John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, near Wigan, Director of the Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and
ofthe I33riaargeltebtusorini:
Esq., StreathamChorley
,andLverpool Railway Companies
William
Henry Blair Mayne, Esq., 14, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-square
John Mollady, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension, and of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway Companies
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Peter Morrison, Esq., Prince's-street, Bank, London, Director of the
Thames Valley Railway Company
Robert William Netterville, Esq., Cruise Rath, County Meath, and
Szekville-street, Dublin

John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetta-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Thames Valley Railway Company
Henry Gerard Ohtley, Esq , Director of the South and Midlands, and
of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Companies
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., 8, Upper Hyde Park- street, Director of the
Thames Valley Railway Company
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and
Carlisle Railway Company
Lewis Pocock, Esq., Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and
Oxford Junction-Railway
The Rev. John Poole, M.A., Mansfield
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's
Great Northern of France ; of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England ; and of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Companies
David R Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of
the London and Manchester Railway Companies.
Henry Savage, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of the
Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company
James Shaw, Esq., Aldred-place, Salford, Director of the Western,
York, and Lancashire, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and
the Rugby and Manchester Direct Railway Companies
Joseph Shaw, Esq.,
Huddersfield, Director of the Eastern Union
Railway Company
William Shaw,. Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
Thames Embankment Companies
William Simpson, Esq., York
William Sloane, Esq., IVimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of
the South and Midlands Railway, and Belfast, Larne, and Bally-
mena Railway Companies .
James Smallpage, Esq., Green Bank, Burly, Director of the
Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Railway Company
Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the Keighly, llalifax, and Huddersfield, the York and
Lancashire, and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railway
Companies
William 11. Terrell, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Director of
the Hull and Doncaster Railway
William Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square
Thomas Hammond Tooke, Esq., Director of the Bideford and Tay's-
tock, and London and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies
Sir William Twysden, Bart., Portman-square, Dorset-street, Director
of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Rail-
way Company
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath-park and Norwich, Director of
the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company
C. Waite,
Esq., Willesden, Director of the Worcester and Warwick
Railway Company
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,
and Portsmouth Railway Companies
Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest Hill
W. A. 'Wilkinson, Esq. Director of the Wavency Talley and Great
Yarmouth Railway Company
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director
of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company
John Wheelton, Esq.
Francis Sacheverel Wilmot, Esq., Storton -by-Dale, Derbyshire,
Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company
0- N. Wright, M.A., Coed Coelyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-
square, London, Deputy-Chairman of the West Midlands, and
Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway Companies
William Wright, Esq., Thorp-house. Norton, near Sheffield, Direc-
tor of the Sheffield, Barnsby, and Wakefield Junction Railway
Companies
Sir William Wynn, Meseynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales,
and Directsr of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.

CHAIRMAN—W. HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c.,
Alderman
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JOSEPH BROWN, Esq.

Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart
0. N. Wright, M.A.

William Beaii, Esq.

Richard Carpenter, Esq.
John Churchill, Esq.

P. J. Hall, Esq. -
Frederick Hewitt, Esq.

Charles George Knot, Esq,
William Law, Esq.

Stephen Lewis,

William Shaw, Esq.
Robert Watkins, Bsq
.

W. A. Wilkinson, Esq.

BANKERS.
London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury
Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Bank
Rochdale —Messrs. Clement Royds and Son
Blackburn—The Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company.

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CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S.
James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and M.R.LA.
ENGINEERS.
Vlliam D. Prichard, Esq.. C.E.
William Thomson, Esq., C.E.
PARLIAMENTARY A.CENTS —MOSSTS. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,
SOLICITOR-11W' Terrell, Esq., 30,13asnghall street, London
LOCAL AGENTS.
J. Cressy Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire
George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire
SECRETARY—Stillingtlect Locker, Esq.

Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway
as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally un-
provided with railway. accommodation, into the populous ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the
important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name,
from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of
traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor
Ironworks —along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the
river Dement, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In
its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos-
sop, Mottram, Hyfield, and Duckentield, In reaching which point, the
Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud-
dersfield Canal• Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway. .

It is unnecessary to state here the character of the country from
Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the
seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating
wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth
and Rossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the
vicinity of Haslingden.
A branch will be thrown out of the trunk line, from the Junction
with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron-
works and Baum, to Todmordcn.
The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the
centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief
seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned
with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in
mineral produce. It wid commanicatz, laterally, with several trunk
lines ofrallway, and will be fed by no less than live working canals--
the Cromford—t he Manchester and Shcflidd --the Huddersfield—the
Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn.
To the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways
euasbo
en to o
and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw-
ing out of branches from the line itself in so many direAtons will add
rt
vver y
will
still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula-
tionconcliundteh
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remuneration
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bikowing the come of rivers, which, in thin induce, fall in

N OTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY JUNCTION RAILWAY,
Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham, with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 550,0007., in 27,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Viscount Lifford, Astley Castle, Coventry
Matthew Glsborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland-street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth Railway
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Renshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, K.H., Deputy-Chairman of the Smith and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon.W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P., Chesham-street, Belgrave-square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobaids, llerts, Director of
the South and Midlapds' Junction Railway
John Clement Ending, Esq.., Director of the National Bank of
Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant lbr Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
Tile Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham Rouse, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Haworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Hallway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
London
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley- Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lient.-Cien. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercialn,
Bank Lancelot
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vln:hdslegovi n.
Cheltenham lamfr"lll'aillevaary
J.hCaptain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and
Crewe Railway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway
John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway-
John B. Story, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicester
Captain Holden:Locks, Park, Derbyshire
The Mayor. Nottingham
psi
e Nottingham
yal
William l
Nottingham
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham
IGeiolirgiaemßcaheaoinies Req.,n.d Baden,
Henry Attenburrow, Esq., Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Lewis Heyman, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Backhand Hollow, Aifreton
Joshua Harding, Esq., Rosliston, Derbyshire
Morris Piddeicke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent
Robert Collings Gilbertson, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham
William Clark, Esq., the Mayor of Coventry
Alderman Dunn, Coventry
Francis Wyley, Esq., Coventry
Captain Frederick Willmot Horton, R.N., Catton-hall, Derbyshire
Charles Noel, Esq., Kirby Mallory, Leicestershire
Mr. Alderman Newton, Coventry
Robert Power, Esq., Atherstone
George Meek, Esq., 29, Russell-square
Thomas Winkworth, Esq., Gutter-lane
Dr. Williams, Nottingham
John Smith Mansfield, Esq., 3, Essex-court, Temple
Edward Coleman, Esq., Atherstone
Thomas Dicker], Esq., St. Stephen's-hill, Staffordshire
John Mott, Esq., the Close, Lichfield, Director of the South Stafford-
shire Railway
William Shadbult, Esq., Greenwich, Chairman of tile Greenwich
Railway

(With power to add to their numlver.)
SOLICITORS.
Abraham Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings.

rARLIAIIIENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyscn, Hall, I'arkes, and Coates.
BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.

The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury ', and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.

The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Aslibourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
I. and John Charles Wright and Co., Nottingham.
CONSULTING ENGINEER-0102'1UB Fox, Esq.
. ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.

This line will commence at a point on the Midland Counties Rail-
way, near Kegworth, and will proceed in a direct line to Nuneaton,
and thus, by means of other projected lines, a direct communication
will be formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark,
and Lincoln on the one side, and Birmingham, Coventry, and War-
wick on the other; and as there is no doubt the proposed rail-
way between Cheltenham and Warwic'c will be formed, a direct
communication will thus be effected between the Severn at Glouces-
ter, end the Dumber at Great Grimsby. At the same time, a rich
mineral and:, agricultural district will be supplied with railway ad-
vantages.

The line will pass through a very productive district, intersecting
the Leicestershire coal-fields and limeworks, and will afford commu-
nication, north and south, to the Derbyshire potteries. With such
an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic, the profits
on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly remunerative.
In consequence of the lines in the coarse of formation, exclusive of
those projected to Great Grimsby, that port will be rendered of the
first importance, and it must be obvious that traffic from the district
south-west of Warwick will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham, will be about twenty miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham about six miles. As
it is the shortest :route from Birmingham to Nottingham and
Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to Notting-
ham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and by com-
municating with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton. it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of Eng' and
generally. It will also afford a direct commuisication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
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The-entire length of the line will be about twenty-four miles. The
Parliamentary surveys are now in active progiess, and contracts have
been entered into with eminent surveyors, which will insure ample
time for a compliance with the standing orders. The engineer also
reports the country to be free from all engineering difficulties, and to
present unusual facilities for the formation of the line.
The Committee havinglletermined upon making provision for com-
pleting the whole line to Coventry, in case circumstances should ren-
der such a course expedient, have resolved to raise the capital to
550,0001., in 27,500 shares of 201. each. Any parties who may be
desirous of withdrawing their applications in consequence of the
above alterations in the project, must signify the same forthwith,
otherwise the applicants for shares will be considered as acquiescing
therein.
Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. en the paid-up
amountcapital
of their will be t askuebnsT,,,r,t:!.pinitdtEtnhseo. liabilityp isr oAf shareholdersto
limitedthe
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Present Distances.

I Mlles

Warwick to Nottingham, by.
liampton and Derby ..about 71 7
Warwick to Nottingham, bv 1
Ruby and Leicester •• • • 65 3
Warwick to Lincoln ...... 97
Coventry to Nottingham .• ..do.l 62
Coventry to Lincoln .• • • ••
Birmingham to Nottingham.. clo.l
Firm Ingham to Lincoln
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by`
Birmingham and Derby.. —do. 100

VES.

By proposed :
Route.

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Prospect oses may be had at the Temporal
i 9, I.:lag's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, La
Lions for shares, addressed to the Provis
attended ti,

Lry Oftlees of the Company,
radon ; where also appllea-
sional Committee, will be

FORM OP APPLICATION FOR •SFIAtES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and
Coventry Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in /1111 ..
Profession and Professional Residence in hill
Residence in, full • • • • • • .......... • . ..
References

Midland Counties Railway
William Law, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square
James Fisher, Esq., ironmaster, Bilston
Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Staffordshire
John Clemson, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester
Barnett Joseph, Esq., Liverpool 4.
Rees Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Ilford, Essex
T. Burrought, Esq., Derby, Director of the West Midland, and Derby

and Galnsborongh Railway
Jehnathan Burton, Esq., Carrington, near Nottingham, Director of
the Grand Union and Midland Junction Railways
Henry Cartwright, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham
and Mansfield, and Sheffield and London Direct Railways .
Samuel Wright Feam Esq., Derby, Director of the West Midland,

and Derby-and Gainsboro-ugh Railways
Henry J. Atelier, Esq., 10, Cliffords' Inn
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Lon& n, Director of the Great Leeds and London, of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and of the Direct Western Railways
John Ferguson, Req., Liverpool
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Shropshire

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Mineral Railway
Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield
Thomas Gregory, Esq., ironmaster, Westbromwich
William Galardi, Esq., Cliff House, Wirksworth, Director of the
Nottingham and London Direct, and of the .Ambergato and Not-
tingham Railways
•
William Hurd Wood, Esq., Ashbourne
John Earp, Esq., Uttoxeter Directors of the Stafford-
Thomas Richardson, Esq., Derby shire and North Midland
Thomas Walker, Esq., Beipbr Junction Railway
Charles Walker, Esq., Ellastone
William Nichols, Esq., 3, Inner Temple-lane
John MGC Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Direct
Western Railway
John Taylor, Esq., Iloiton, Director of the Guernsey Railway and

Pier Company
Wm. Clapp, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square
Sir John Hare, Langharn place, Director of the London and Man-
chester Railway
Geo. R. Harrison, Esq., Harleyford-place, Kennington, Director of
the Grand Trunk Railway
Alfred 'Brodie, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square, Di-
rector of the Grand Trunk Railway
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
C. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-Kivu e,

Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
Henry Minton Esq., Kidderminster
James Holmes, Esq., Kidderminster
John Hadland, Esq., Banbury, Oxfordshire
William White Coleman, Esq., Banbury
Barnes Austin, Esq., Banbury
William Caless, Esq., Banbury
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester,
Rugby, Southampton, of the Liverpool and Derby Direct, and of
the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Junction Railways
John Hudson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough, and
Great Grimsby Junction Railway

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and lement's-lane, London
The London and County Bank, Co.,i.ombard-street, London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall
The Liverpool and Manchester District Bank, Liverpool
The National Provincial Bank of England, Newport, Gloucester, and

Manchester
Messrs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster
Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester
The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
Messrs. Alcock and Co., Hanley

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SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Willer, Esq., 3, Abehureli-lane, London
Edmund Corbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Brillion, Efq., Kidderminster
Gilbert BrowujEsq.,
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Jones and Walmesley, Parliament-street.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Henry Male, Esq., Liverpool
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester
John Brampton, Esq., Worcester
Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Pottoriell
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq.,Newport;
William Harding, Esq., Bursiem
Henry Vickers, Esq., Solicitor, Bridguorth
SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abehurch-lane, London.

This line of railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
chester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed from
thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
"Withal, in Shropshire, thence through tile flourishing town of Kid-
derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail-
wayt at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most
to
eirtetcle
route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Cliesot
important ports of Gloucester and Bristol,
line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel.eser, and
in conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and
formlVorc the mast Swan-
sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railway-I"
Zstricts of South Wales,
advan-
tageous route from Swansea and the iron
to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull.
and Birmingham Railway at
frifioeminNetwhis-
The line will cress the Shrewsbury
ilti_lway
end the Treat Valley
Shiffnal, and the Shropshire 31ifnerea,l,porti .
It will form a junction
Union at the thriving town o N
Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gage the two latter railways at .
to SWIM,—
I Derby, the midland counties,
may Le conveyed
1 elield, and Hull ; and, in addition to the
stafferdshire Potteries, z_
gneiradtrea
Sltelield,
from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and
carriage of heavy if_ indeed the
It
:tlidatiresect,
el
will be r Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
87 miles in length, and district through which it pasa..
be-
tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in abent two hours. This project as a
junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail-
ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely-
EKoidgdiacna,inasntde . to
Scotland—will..essecurAe
baralanregi
densely-
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
poTrtntes
ptrletepoinsend,orrts
jailint,stoyw,nvilott Nbieelalibengutton.
course passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there-
fore, be obvious that there will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required. _

There are no engineering difficulties in the country through which
the lice is intended to pass, the whole being nearly on a level, and
on reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey,
which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and
will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and
that it cannot be surpasssd by any existing or projectedlines between
the same termini.

It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel-
ling will be required.

Application is Intended to be made, in the ensuing session of Par-
liament, for a direct line of railway (of which a survey has been
made) from Southampton to Kidderminster, and by which a ready
communication will be afforded to the meat southern ports of England.
The liabilities of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and interest will he allowed on the deposits and
further calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening of
the line. 4

Prospectuses, with maps and forms of application for shares; can
be bad from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices
of the Company, 3, Abchurch-lane, London; from the Solicitors and
Local Agents; also from the following Brokers, viz. :-3fessrs. Lyon,
2, Birchin-lane, and Messrs. Franchi and lieuesey, 27, Change -
alley, Cornhill, London-; Mr. Andrem Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir-
kenhead ; Mr. E. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitmore, St.
George, and Messrs. E. S. Boult, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohmes and
Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; Mr. William
Miles, Worcester; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Manchester;
to whom applications for shares may be addressed. It will be
necessary that reference be made to a Banker, Solicitor, or perm
of Fe.sponsibilit7.