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London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

riflHE AVON and SEVERN VALLEY RAIL-
WAY, from RUGBY to GLOUCESTER,
Connecting Leamington and the whole of the Midland and North
Eastern Counties with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the
South of England.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

ico further call will be made until an Act of Parliament is obtained,
and no party will be liable beyond the amount of his shares.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Lord Beauclerc, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave-

square
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
The Hon. Captain E. Freke, Life Guards, 3, Belgrave-square
Sir Montague John Cholmeley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire

Sir Williant Bacon Johnson, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest
of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South and Midland Junction
Railway

Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of

the Barb does General Railway _
Joseph Yorke, Esq. Forthampton Court, Tewkesbury, late High

Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and magistrate for the counties of Wor-
cester and Gloucester

John Williams martin, Esq. Twyning, nearTewkesbnry, Magistrate

for the counties of Worcester and Gloucester
Colonel J. Taylor, Cheltenham, Magistrate for the counties of Wor-

tester and Gloucester
William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon-
don' late M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex-
tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, Southern
and Eastern Counties, and of the. Birkenhead, Chester, Mold,

Rhanbon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways
William Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks„ Sheffield, Director of the Cai

bridge and LiWcoln'ixtension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds

Junction Railways
Bonjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S. 8, Upper Hyde park-streat, and
• Brookes' Club, St. James's, Director of the West Midland, and
Manchester and Southampton Railways
Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of

the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway
William Lloyd Caldecot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath

William Breynton, Req., Montpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple,
London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other
Railways
H. H. Dancocks, Esq., the Manor-house. Kempley, Gloucestershir,
Director of the Birmingham, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury,
and Walsall Junction Railways
James Maurice Shipton, Esq., R.N., Walmer-hall, near Tewkesbury,
Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice-
Consul of Russia at that port
Richard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of
Gloucester, and Deputy-Chairman of the Gloucester and Forest of
Dean Railway
Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester

Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol
Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erdington, Warwickshire
Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury

George Smith, Esq., Prestbury, near Cheltenham

Thomas C. Avery, Esq., Gloucester
Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto
Arthur H. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester
W. H. Evans, Esq., merchant, Gloucester Directors of the
Charles F. Cliffe, Esq., Gloucester Worcester, Here-
Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto ford ,ancl Glouces-
Robert Heane, Esq., merchant, ditto ter Railway

Charles Walker, Esq., merchant, ditto
Henry Fox, Esq., merchant, ditto
Edward J. Woodhouse, Esq., merchant, ditto,

John Sadds, Esq., Abbot's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury
Aaron Goold Bilsome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and
W st of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways
Wm. Mousley, Esq. Stratford-upon-Avon
Charles Medlicott, Esq. Stratford-upon-Avon

John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park,
and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove
Valley, South Staffordshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways

Malan; Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
George Frederic Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands
Union, and Dever and Bristol Railways

John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall-, Cheshire, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction Railways
George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire,
Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and
Dover and Bristol Railways
Major White, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway
Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple,
London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and
the Dover and Bristol Railways

Walte;l7nett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the
Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways
_ _ _

Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristo

Railway
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct, the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool,
Preston, and North Union Railways

William Caldwell, Esq , Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire
Potteries Railways _ _

Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and
Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways
Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcesterehire, and Adelaide-
place, London-bridge, Director of the bouthern and Eastern, and
Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways

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John Bird, Esq., Dines Mowddy, North Wales
W. It. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and
Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West
Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways

Edward Shilton, Esq., Bath-cottage, Handsworth, Staffo'rdshire

George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich,
Wednesbury, and Walsall Railways
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct,
and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways
Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the London and
Exeter, and other Railways
ry
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W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
Capt. Gould, Charles-street, St. James's
Samuel Kempson, Esq., Little Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of
the Birmingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway
Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London, Director of the
Lynn, Wisbeach, and 'Peterborough Railway
_ _

Robert drove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwlch, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway.

Edward Canning, Esq. Stratford-upon-Avon
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Thomas Ashmead Perry, Esq. Stratford-upon-Avon
Samuel Hayward, Esq. Newtoun-cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon
William Hunter, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Western,
and the Rugby and Manchester Railways

John Burgess, Esq. St. James's-square, Manchester
James Beech, Esq. Brandon-lodge, near Coventry
Henry Scott, Esq. 17, Pall-mall, London:
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Thomas Henry Starr, Esq. M.D. Leamington
D. W. Griffith, Esq. Bodegroes, Carnarvonshire, late High Sheriff of
the County of Merioneth, and director of the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction, and other Railways

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WiViirgglata, Agniggitai7way
John James Rippon, Esq. Ealing, Middle-ex, director of the Bir-
mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction
Railway

Lodge Morres Murray Prior, Esq. Coventry, director of the Dublin,
Tullamore, and Parsonstown, Dover and Bristol, Dundalk and
Sligo, and other railways

C. H:Jagger, Esq. Handsworth, Staffordshire, director of the Ips-
wich and Southampton, and the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peter-
borough Railways
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace, director of the Dover
and Bristol Railway
James Upftll, Esq. the Green, Bromyard, director of the Dover
and Bristol, Staffordshire and Shropshire, and other Railways
John Johnson, Esq. R.N., Edgbaston, Birmingham, director of the
Birmingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction,
and the Dudley, Madeley, Brosely, and Ironbridge Railway
William Henry Collis, Esq. Handswerth, Staffordshire

George Worgan, Esq. director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
Joseph Turner, Esq. Stratford-upon-Avon
Samuel Haines, Esq. Edgbaston, near Birmingham, director of the
Dover and Bristol, and other Railways
William Spooner, Esq., London, director of the South Staffordshire
Junction Railway

Thomas Spencer, Esq., Earl Shilton, director of the Wolverhampton.
Walsall, and Atherstone Railway
ENGINEER.
William Henry Smith, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London
W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. /Senn, Rugby
William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
Anthony Sproule, Esq., Tewkesbury
Edwin Pollard, Esq., Gloucester
Messrs. Russell, Leamington.
BANKERS—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London.
SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq.

The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London
and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Midland Counties
and Trent Valley Railways, and the paint to which several other
projected railways converge, and will proceed through or near to
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury,
and Cheltenham, to Gloucester. The length of the line will bs
about 56 miles.
The advantages that will result from the construction of this line
are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fail to secure
a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re-
munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing
and proposed railways, it will form a complete chain of railmiy.com-
munication between the whole of the midland and north-eastern
counties of England, the populous cities and towns before-named, and
the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester, Not-
tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and Hull,
into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of
Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-productive and far-famed
Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth,
and Falmouth, and those of South Wales.
The inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering-
places of Leamington and Cheltenham will thus obtain a direct line
between those resorts, instead of the present circuitous route through
Birmingham, affording that facility of intercommunication which
has long been ardently desired ; and it will also afford the utmost fa-
cility of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as well by
the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shakspearo, annually
resort to Stratford-on-Avon.
To those passengers from the east and north-east, direct to
Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the angle of the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Cheltenham, will afford a
great accommodation, and a saving in distance of at least eight miles,
besides the delay of the stoppage at Cheltenham.
At Tewkesbury it will also form a junction with the proposed line
from that place to Malvern, affording bite most direct communication
to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating
atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern-hills.
To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes-
bury- this portion of the proposed line will prove immensely advan-
tageous ; situated within ten miles of the important city and port of
Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway
route nearly twice that distance, an Inconvenience which has
already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of
the town. The proposed line, running close to the town, will remove
this great inconvenience, and 'restore its trade to its former state of
prosperity. _ _

The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot
be too highly estimated, as it will not only open to it immense
sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern
counties, but will very materially lessen the distance between it
and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making
Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most accessible outlet
for the whole of that immensely productive manufacturing region;
and it is impossible to conceive any project better calculated to
advance the interests of Gloucester, than one capable of effecting
that object.

Ths line will also form an Important junction between the London
and Birmingham and Midlands Railways, and the Bristol and
Gloucester Railway, and constitute the highway for the traffic of the
former, and of all the north-eastern railways, to the proposed Man-
chester and Southampton Railway at Cheltenham; and the through
traffic from the latter source alone is expected to be very great.

It will thus have the effect of connecting the ports of the eastern
and north-eastern with those of the western and southern coasts;
of affording the most direct and convenient access from the north
and east to the vast mineral regions of South Wales, and of opening
new markets for the rich products of the fertile valleys of the Avon
and Severn, and the agricultural districts of Warwickshire and Wor-
cestershire, in the manufacturing towns and ports of the north.
The line will be easy of construction, traversing, as it does, through
nearly its whole length, the valleys of the Avon and Severn. The
towns through which it will run are very populous, and the country
of the richest description ; and the local traffic will consequently be
very great in addition to the through traffic, which on such a line
must necessarily be very extensive.

The Provisional Cov►mittee reserve to themselves the pcwer to
amalgamate 'with any other company as to the whole or any part of
the line, and t I vary or extend the line, and to increase or diminish
the capital accordingly, if deemed expedient.
The capital proposed to be raised is 1,000,0001., in shares of 201,
each, upon which a deposit of 2/. 2s. per share must be paid upon
allotment:

The liability of the subscribers will be limited by the Act to the
amount of their respective subscriptions to the capital stock, and
power will he applied for in the Act to allow interest at the rate of
4/. per cent.per annum on the amount of the deposit, and upon the re-
spective calls, from the date of each payment until the opening of the
line.

The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will
be required to be duly executed when the bankers' receipts are ex•
changed for certificates of scrip, of which due notice will be given ;
and the deposits paid by persons making default in due execution of
the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract within the
time to be limited by such notice, will be absolutely forfeited.
Forme of application for shares, prospectuses, and a map of the
line, may be obtained fro.n the Solicitors, or the Secretary, at the
Offices of the Company, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London, or from
any of the undermentioned Sharebrokers ; but no application will be
attended to unless accompanied by a reference to one of the Provi-
sional Committee, the Solicitors, or a Banker :
London—Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard
Birmingham—Mr. Duncan Smith
Leamington—Mr. Eliezer Edwards, Bedford-street
Bath—Mr. T. E. Evans, Milsom-street
Gloucester—Mr. J. N. Balme, King-street
C,iistol—Messrs. Tate and Nash and Mr. W. H. Land

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Stratford-on-Avon Mr. William Bottom
Liverpool—Messrs. Pownal and Worthington, and Mr. William Karl
Manchester—Mr. John Barlow, Messrs. Cardwell and Son, and Henry
Woodhouse
Leeds—Messrs. Robinson and Farley