The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-08 00:00:00

SOLICITORS.
Dunning and Stawman, Leeds.
Charles Clough, Bradford.
The objects of the Midland and Thirsk Junction Railway are three-
fold ; firstly, to open up and fully develop one of the richest fields of
Coal and Ironstone in the kingdom ; secondly, to make a Trunk Line
of communication from South to North, between the Midland andw
d
the Leeds and Thirsk Railways; and, thirdly, in coujunction
the Midland at Oakenshaw, the Manchester and Leeds and the Wake-
field, Pontefract and Goole at Wakefield, the Leeds and Dewsbury at
or near How:ey Mills, the Bradford and Leeds at or near Calverley,
and the Leeds and Thirsk at or near Horsforth, to afford to the densely
populated and important manufacturing district through which the
line is intended to pass, the best facilities for the conveyance of pas-
sengers, merchandise, &c., to all parts of the country.
The intended line runs parallel with none of the projected schemes
of last session, and cannot be said to interfere with any of there ; it
is perfectly independent, and imperatively called for.
The quantity of coal procured from different collieres now
ar work-
ing in the Howden Clough and Cockersdale Valleys (which eon
the intended line of railway) is about 6,000 tons per week, and when
the railway now projected is formed, it is believed that the average
supply weekly will be upwards of 20,000 tons,
more so that from
othis vast
and inexhaustible field of coal, occupying t 10,
and averaging twenty feet in thickness (of workable coal) an unli-
mited supply of the best and cheapest coal in the kingdomth will
more
be
available for the London market (via Goole), as well as e
neighbouring towns of Wakefield, Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, Dews-
bury, Bingley, Keighley, Skipton, Otley, Harrogate, Knaresborough,
Ripon, &c., tee., where in most cases the reduction will be at least
one-half, and in the more distant places much more than this amount
of reduction, and in all which places an abundant supply of good and
cheap coal is of the highest importance. The revenue to be realised
from this source alone, it is believed, will yield a most ample return
for the capital required.
Besides passing through the centre of this immense coal field, the
railway traverses a district affording accommodation to a populat.on
of upwards of 115,000 inhabitants, and whilst affording every accom-
modation to this vast populstion, whose internal traffic must neces-
sarily be very great, it receives an additional indemnity from the
relative position iu which it stands to other lines, so that for inter-
nal resources and external relations its advantages :are almost un-
rivalled.
This .line afforh most direct comunication from North to
and will bet ae nearer route frame Huddersfield, Wakefield,
South,
Manchester, South Lancashire, Cheshire, and all parts et the South,
to that much frequented waterin:.-place, Harrogate, and will form a
most eligible line, with appropriate stations at Wakefield, Alver-
thorpe, Batley, Drighlthgton, Tong, Pudsey, Stanningley, Calverley,
and Horsforth, The length of the main line will be about sixteen
miles, and the branches six miles.
The project is warmly supported by the landed and local interests,
and by a large body of mercantile and wealthy individuals in the
above districts, who, confident of a successful issue, will use every
means for bringing the project before the Legislature next session.
The Company reserve the power of making an extension from
tteir line to Bradford, at the most convenient point for the convey-
an e of the minerals, B:e., it' adequate provision be not made by
another Company.
The liability of each Shereholder will be restricted to the amount
of his indiTidual subscription, and interest will be allowed upon all
calls after the rate of 4 per cent• per annum from the time the Act is
obtained.
be obtained of the Solicitors at Leeds
Further information may
or Bradford. and applications for shares may
be addressed to them in
the form subjoined.
ms of appl;cationmay also be had of Mr. R. M.
Prospectuses and fcr
other respectable Stock and Share Agent in
Scholefield, and any
Bradford, Leeds. Ern.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Midland and Thirsk Junction
Railway Company.
Gentlemm,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 251.
each in this Company, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or
any less number that may be allotted me, and to pay the deposit of
21. 12s. Cd. per share thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary
Contra.a and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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