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)AST AND WEST OP ENGLAND JUNC-
TION RAILWAY,
ALA

FROM NORTHAMPTON TO CHELTENHAM.
Broad Gauge.
The deeds of this Company will lie for signature each day during
this week at the Offices, 35, Charing-cross; and they will lie for sig-
nature at the following towns between the hours of Eleven and Four
o'clock :

MANCHESTER, on SATURDAY, September 13, at Messrs. Stang-
land and Leese's, King-street.
LIVERPOOL, on MONDAY, September 15, at Messrs. John Wills
and Co.'s, Royal Bank-buildings.
„LEEDS, on TUESDAY, September 16, at Messrs. Wellbeloved and
Oastler's.

SHEFFIELD, on WEDNESDAY, September 17, at Messrs. Garton
and 'Wright's.

BIRMINGHAM, on MUMMA; September 18, at J. R. Lanes,
En, Stockbroker.
BANBURY, on FRIDAY, September 19, at the White Lion Hotel.
g 5, Charing-cross, Sept. 11, 1845.

THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN-
SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with
Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On the Broad Gauge.
(Provisionally registered.)
Capital 2,250,000/., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House
The Hon:-Douglas Kinnaird Poultney, 4, Parliament-street, Director
of the Nottingham and Boston Railway
Major Beresford, M.P.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director
of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways
Sir Wm. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman of the North Waleaßallway
Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Worcester and Warwick Railway
Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension
Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and
Birmingham Railway
Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Director of the South and Midland
Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the
South and Midland
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester
and Chester Railway
Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place
Captain S. M. Fisher, jun., Director of the 'Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway
Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Great Paris and Lyons Railway.
Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon-
don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation,
Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, Scca
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
John Khanersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland
Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South
Midland Railway
Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury
Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff ef London and
Middlesex
Captain Jas. Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Stag
Fan-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of
Dean Railway, &c.
Captain Alex. Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club.
John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Ragby
and Southampton Railway
Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath
Wm. Lee, Esq. Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex
and Suffolk Railways
Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Chas. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Rail-
way
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Rail-
way
John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Thomas Collingridge, Highgate, Middlesex
Chas. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
John Brock Walbanck, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester and
Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties
Railway
Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment
Railway
Major-General Brooks Parlby, 18, Rutland-place
W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and
Cheltenham Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester
Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Italian and Austrian Railway
W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director ef the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director ef the Colchester and Cambridge
Railway
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Director if the Norwich and Worcester
Railway
Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Railway
Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bides
ford and Tavistock Railway
Captain C. W. Tyndall, Director of the South-Eastern Railway
J. P. Gipp, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
Railway
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the London and Dover Railway
C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex
It. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the
North Metropolitan Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway
Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway
Wm. Alfred 11111, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Junction
Railway
Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway
Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton
Warren S. Hale, Esq., Greesham- street
Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon-
don Extension Railway
Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq.
The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge
Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches-
ter Railway
Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith
Railway
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford
E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford-
shire Railway
Martin "'units, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and
Boston Railway
W. S. Cross, Esq., Director if the Birmingham and Manchester
Extension Railway
W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway
Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire
Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbrldge, Staffordshire
Alexander Greig, Esq., Loa-ndes-street, Belgrave-square, DirectOr of
the Leicicester and Birmingham Railway ao•-•
•
Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Wades, near Birmingham
William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railway
Win. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Railway
James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract
David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and
Thirsk Railway
Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester
aoss
Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways
fitiedr
John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton
Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Railway
J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and
Birmingham Extension Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction
Railway
Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and
Leeds Railway
John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds
J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth
Railway
W. Sloane, Esq., Winmole-street
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Railway
W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square
Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May Fair
John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Lothbury
Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond
W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place
James Darness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex
G. N. Wright, M.A.
John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway
(Wi.h power to add to their number.)
The names of as influential Committee formed at Worcester and
Chester will be published in a few days.

BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London
ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq.,
5, Basinghall-street.
SECRETARY—HiIton Thomas Jenkins, Esq.
The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as
the point where the broad guage trunk lines of the west are to have a
common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have
decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the pa-
tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,
uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be
carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations
on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com-
plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification
from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly
accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where
it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches
Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at
Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu-
factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening
districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbrldgo
a little to the east, the line is taken to Bridgenorth, a town enjoying
an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron
works, that gives employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass-
ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from
which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends
roociii, and
and
Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Nem,
enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed.
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Railway.
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passing through or near Malpas, have its northern terminus in the
city of Chester.
In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worms-
ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of
profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along
the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry
in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned
the China manufactories of Worcester ; the iron, coal, and earthen-
ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce
brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal strati
mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and
the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally.
In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also
obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several
miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi-
dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro-
jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula-
tion_er being familiar with mining operations, will be found better
localities.
qualified for the execution of railway works here than In many other
in various directions, few
or as auxiliary
to existing or projected lines pessing
As a link in the railway networktoofaffEo
schemes hitherto proposed appearf accommixiation for traffic and
England, or
ter Inducement
for investment, or a wider range
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_ristol,thencd link in the chain
the grand trunk of Om
t nnlnus, Worcester, Is the half-
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willing. This
connect pLrotrecrtpocoolnsmt,itttith B
West of England ;—its n and Port Dynntlaen broad gauge line :
way station of
!aid Aberystwith, and, eastward, to Warwick and
projected linesthe London
communication will be afforded west-
wardUy
d e Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln,
pr oj
Northampton, Camlni g ,
ant Hull.
to
Swansea and
repeatedly and carefully examined by the The line
Com-
pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may
be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in-
stance favourable—that the geological structure of the distriCts to
be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com-
munication is acknowledged by the interests seated en its proposed
course.
Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms
of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and
Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; also of W. B. James,
Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the
following gentlemen:-
11h. Samuel rianbury, 4, Angel-court,
London
Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street
Liverpool.. ..... Messrs. Alston and Gage.
Manchester • • •• . Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Wil-
tliam Marshall.
Hull— . Messrs. Collinson and Flint.
Messrs. Watson and Co., and
Leeds ••• • • ••• • • Messrs. Smith and Perfect
Stratford-on-Avon..Mr. William Bolton.
Exeter.. .. Mr. Thomas Sanford,
Plymouth Mess s. Hayward and Palmer.
Birmingham .. Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright,
Glasgow.• ...... • . Messrs. Lassie and Co.
Messrs. Robertson and Cog and Messrs.
Edinburgh • ..... mum and Co.

Huddersfield
Worcester
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To tho Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Cheater
Railway.
• •

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shires of
201. each in this Company, and I undertake to aceept the same, an
to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lees number that may be al.
lotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary'
Centract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name (in full).• ..... ........... . . ...
Residence .• • • • • • • •... • • ••••••• •• ••
Trade or Profession .......... •• •• ••
Befereuce.. • . •4 •I• • ••
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