The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-11 00:00:00

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Capital, £700,000, in 28,000 shares of £25 cash.
Deposit, £l. 7s. Gd. per share.
(Provisionally registered.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Brightman, Esq., Regency Square, Brighton.
Captain W. G. Beare, Porchester Place.
Charles Boswell, Esq., Clewer, Windsor.
A. W. Clarke, Esq., Queen-street, Cheapslde
W. H. Cooke, Esq., Temple
Francis Chambers, Esq., St. Dunstan's Hill
Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Yorkshire
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court and Old Kew Palace
11. C. Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton, Kent
George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane
R. Frogley, Esq., Hounslow
Henry Plumptre Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanston-square
Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park
F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square
Joseph 'Henry, Esq., South-street, Finsbury
Frederick Jones, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's-inn
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester
John Maclean Lee, Esq., Esher, Surrey
Fitzherbert Macqueen, Esq., Sussex-place, Brixton
Arthur Mann. Esq., Woburn-square
R. C. Polhill, Esq., Brompton
Henry Penny, Esq., 13), Piccadilly
The Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton-row
Thomas Robinson, Etq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
Thomas Stephenson, Esq., Upper Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
George Thomas, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row
With power to add to their number.
ACTING ENGlNEER.—Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Harrison, 5, Walbrook.
S. P. Rook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury.
BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London.

The difficulty in obtaining a good Central London terminus has
hitherto been an insuperable obstacle to a railway communication
between London and the populous and important localities which this
line will serve. This obstacle has now been removed by the exten-
sion of the South Western Railway from Nine-elms to the foot of
Hungerford Market Bridge, for which an Act of Parliament has been
obtained this session ; and by the proposed railway bridge across the
Thames, on the east side of the Hungerford Market Suspension
Bridge, for which a Company has been formed to obtain an Act in the
ensuing session.
Arrangements have been made with the South Western Railway
Company, securing the terminus at Hungerford Market.
The London, Hounslow, and Western Railway is intended to com-
mence at Hungerford Market Railway Bridge in the Strand, and run
along the South Western line to a point near Battersea Church,
thence crossing the Thames, and running through Fulham, Hammer-
smith, Chiswick, Turnham Green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow,
and the intermediate towns and villages to Staines, with a branch
from Hounslow to the Great Western Railway, at or near West
Drayton.
The South Western Company contemplate applying to Parliament
in the ensuing Session for an Act to enabls them to extend their line
from Hungerford Mar7et Bridge to London Bridge, which will afford
to this Company a terminus at London Bridge as well as at Hunger-
ford Market.
The population and the mercantile traffic with London and the
West of England, of the various localities through which this Rail-
way will pass, far exceed that of any other district in the vicinity of
the metropolis, and no available railway communication from those
localities, either to London or to the western or south-western parts
of England, at present exists.
The line has been surveyed, and presents no engineering difficul-
ties ; the greater portion of the cluntry through which the railway
will pass is nearly level ; very little ornamental and house property
will be interfered with, and, as a consequence, the expense of con-
struction and of the acquisition of the ground for the line will be
comparatively small.
The average weekly passenger traffic of Hounslow, Isleworth,
Brentford, Kew-bridge, Turnham-green, Hammersmith, and Fulham-
bridge, taken from tile Stamp-office returns, allowing eight pas-
sengers to each omnibus and coach, gives the following results :
Passengers X s. d
Hounslow Omnibusses, per year, at Is.
Isleworth each passenger • • • •
Brentford
Coaches per year, at Is each
3 passenger
Kew-bridge omnibusses • •
'•urnham-green
Hammersmith
Fulham-bridge • •
At 9d. each passenger • •

395,032 19,801 12 0

378,560 18,928 0 0
.. 261,560
70,056
274,768
.. 514,656

1,121,040
42,039 0 0

£80,768 12 0
The increased traffic on a railway has always proved
to be more than double the pre-existing traffic, but
taken at double will give for the passengert raffic of
the above places alone, per annum ••• • • • ••• • • • £161,537 4 0
The foregoing statement does not include the passenger traffic cf.
Staines, Englefleld-Green, Egham, Bedfont, and the numerous ad-
jacent villages.
The present traffic by carriages, gigs, and horses may be estimated
at one-half of the above amount. It has been ascertained by actual
observation, that 3,264 carriages and gigs pass to and through Brent-
ford within a week.
Many of the numerous passengers by the steam-boats now plying
on the Thames between London and the intermediate places to
Brentford and Islewortb, will necessarily avail themselves of the su-
perior advantages of railway transit.
Exclusive of the passenger 'traffic through Brentford, there are on
an average 1,850 waggons and carts to Brentford every week.
The extensive merchandise traffic on the River Thames between
London-and Staines, and the intermediate towns, is subject to great
interruption upwards from Brentford, by droughts in summer, and
by floods and frosts in winter ; the circuitous course of the river and
the great horse-power required to draw the barges against the strong
current, render the traffic by the river slow and very expensive.
Every description of merchandise can be carried by this railway at a
much less rate, and quicker than by the present water carriage.
Since the opening of the Great Western Railway a large portion of
the former passenger and merchandise traffic has been transferred to
that railway from the old Great Western coach-road, which is parallel
with this line, a great part of which will necessarily be restored to the
London, Hounslow, and Western Railway.
Applications for shares in the annexed form to be made to the
Provisional Committee, at the offices of the solicitors, Messrs. T. and
D. Harrison, 5, Walbrook, and S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-
yard, or to the share brokers, J. IL Golding, Esq., 10, Warnford-
court ; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars, and Messrs.
Shewell, Tokenhouse-yard, from whom prospectuses may be obtained.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Provisional Committee of the London, Hounslow, and Western

Railway

Gentlemen—l request you will allot to me Shares of 251.
each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to
pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lesser number that may be
allotted to me, such payment to be made within the time limited and
prescribed by you, and I undertake to execute the Agreement and
Parliamentary Contract when required.
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