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London, England, 1845-11-03 00:00:00

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE,

The Rigid Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatehe-house, Henley-on•

Thames, Oxon
Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormeau, Antrim
Edwin Leaf, Esq. Cumberland-street, Bryanston-square, director of
the Bristol and Dover, and London, Staines, Ascot, and Reading
Junction Railways
Wm. Bastow, Esq. Surrey-place, director of the Worcester, Warwick,
and Rugby Railway
Col. Douglas, C.B. Senior United Service Club, director of the Trent
Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction Railway '
Lieut.-Col. Cruttenden, R.A. Percy-street, Bedford-square. director
of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway
Benjamin Webster, Esq. Old Bremptoa, director of the Brighton,
Lewes, aid Tunbridge-wells Rail Way
William Banks, Esq. Honey-lane-market, director of the Great
Leeds and London Direct Railway
Robert Bastow, Esq. 112, Cheapside, director of the Great Eastern
and Western Railway
J. Chandler, Esq. director of the Sheffield and Macclesfield Railway
John Perring, Esq. Smaley-lodge, near Buntingford, Huts, director

of the Northera and Southern Connecting
Richard King, Esq., 11, Regent-street
Charles Wiliam Hoyland, Esq. 23, York-
place, Portman-squire
Edward Shirley Kennedy,Esq. Lorraine-place,
Holloway
J. M. Levey, Esq. Great Coram-street
George Newen, Esq. 1, Hyde-park-terrace,
Kensington-gore'
John Angus Walmisley, Esq., Clapham-rise
Henry Lewellin, Esq. Edward-street, Re-
gent's-park
Ellis Treacher Bowden, Esq. Stamford-hill
The Baron de Golstelu, Captain and Cheva-
lier de I'Ordre Teutonique, 6, Hones-street,
Cavendish-square
John G. Sparke, Esq. M.D. Finsbury-place
Bondi('
J. A. Layard, Esq. 40, Keppell-street, Russell-square, director of
the Ca.cutta and St. George's Point, and Hull, Birmingham, and
Swansea Junction Railway
Charles Jack, Esq., Inverness-lodge, Ealing, director of the Hull,
Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
John White, Esq. Alpha-house, Ranelagh-grove, Pimlico, director of

lailwai

Directors of ills Lon-
don, Staines, As-
' cot, add Beading
Junction Railway

the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
Blagdon Harrall, Esq. 31. D. director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith,

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and Central Wales Railway
Wm. T. Elliott, Cowper-house, Old Brompton, director of the Great
Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties, or Ipswich and south-
ampton Railway
Henry Dingley Cockburn, Esq. Woolwich, Kent, director of the Shef-

field, West /tiding, and midlands Junction Railway
James Saynes, Esq. Great Dover•street, director of the Tunbridge

and Rye Railway
William Morgan, Esq. Lewisham
Edwin James Bennett, Esq. Commercial-road, director of the Hull,

Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
J. Godwin, Esq. director of the Birmingham, Hull, and Swansea
Junction Railway
John Jackson, Esq. 12, Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico, director of
the Reading and Reigate Railway
William Pyne, Esq. Bean-house, Cradley, Herefordshire, and Temple,
director of the Great Grimsby and Midland Junction Railway
'James Mackay, Esq. Tower of London, director of the Hull, Bir-
mingham, and Swansea Junction Railway
William Henry Tardy, Esq. Quebec-street, Montagu -square, director
of the Bosteu, Louth, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway
Henry Webber, Esq. 58, Lower Brook-street
Robert Bissett Richmond, Esq. M.D. 40, Great Castle-street, Caven-
dish-square, director of the Direct Macclesfield and Sheffield Rail-
way
Robert Remmets, Esq. Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, director
of the G{and London and Dublin Approximation, and London,
Staines, Ascot, and Reading Junction Railways
Watson Coulson, Esq. Mark-lane
James Matthias Gilbertson, Esq, Hertford, director
of the London, Staines, Ascot, and Reading Junction Railway
H. C. Cope, Esq. director of the Dover and Bristol, and London,
Cheltenham, and Brighton Railway
John Lovell Lawton, Esq. Wimpole-street, Cavendish• square, di-
rector of the Great Welsh Junction, and Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway
George A. H. Chichester, Esq. St. Alban's-place, and Oatilelds, Do-
negal, director of the London, Staines, Ascot, and Reading Junction,
and London and Exeter Railways
Charles Davenciert, Esq. 5, Mark-lane, and Egham, Surrey, director
of the London, Staines, Ascot, and Reading Junction Railway
Thomas Holliday, Esq. Clifton-street, Finsbury-square
Henry Reeves, Esq. Cheapside, director of the London, Staines, As-
cot, and Reading Junction Railway
W. Heatrell Dowse, Esq. Chancery-lane, director of the Grand
Trunk Railway
Rev. S. Isaacson, Berners-street, director of the Leeds, Fleetwood,
Liverpool, Hull, Sheffield, and Midland Direct, and Cambridge
and Lincoln Extension Railways
Peter George Patmore,Esq. Highwood-hill, Middlesex, and 7, South-
ampton-street, Fitzroy-square, director of the London, Hastings,
and St. Leonard's Direct Railway
W. Wilson, Esq. M.D. Devonport-street, Sussex-square, Hy-de-park.
director of the Great Grimsby and Midland Junction, and London,
Staines, Ascot, and Reading Junction Railways
Basil C. Willis, Esq. 52, Regent-chambers, director of the London,
Staines, Ascot, and Reading Junction Railway
J. Stevens, Esq. director of the London, Staines, Ascot, and Reading
Junction Railway
Captain A. R. Earle, Royal Artillery
(With power to add to their number).

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Chairman.
Edwin Leaf, Esq. William Pyne, Esq.
J. AlLayard, Esq. J. M. Levy, Esq.
James Matthias Gilbertson, Esq. Edward Shirley Kennedy, Esq.
John Angus Walmisley, Esq. J. L. Lawton, Esq.
Ellis Trencher Bowden, Esq. Captain A. H. Carle. R.N.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-croft
The Commercial Bank of London.
ENGINEERS—Edward Bell, Esq., C.E.; Richard Bell, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Jones and. Wahnialey, 40, Par.

liarnent-street.
SOLICITORS AND SECRETARIES.
Afc.rs. llowden and Son, 66, Alderrnanbury
John K. L. Walmisloy, Esq., 12, Korth-street, Westminster.

Halstead—Messrs. Sperling and Harris
Sible Hedingham—ltielaard Thompson, Esq.
Cambridge—Charles H. Cooper, Esq.

PROSPECTUS.
The object which the promoters of this Company are desirous of
attaining is the establishment of a direct railway communication be-
tween the important towns of Harwich, via Colchester and Cam-
bridge ; and they have most carefully selected that line which, by the
report of the engineers, appears to be the best calculated to benefit
the public, by its direct nature, and by its encroaching as little as
possible on valuable and ornamental property. The line is intended
to commence at the Hythe of Colchester, and extend to the terminus
of the line projected by Mr. Locke from Harwich to Colchester—from
thence the line will be continued through the important and populous
towns of Fordham, Wake's Colne, Earl's Colne, Halstead, Sible Heding-
ham, Castle Hedingham, Great Yeldham, Ridgewell,Sturmer, Haver-
hill, Great and Little Abington, and Unto% and will effect a junction
with the North-Eastern Railway at a point a little below Shelfm•d,

and terminate at Cambridge.
The total length of the line will be 37 miles, and the promoters
have great pleasure in stating that the country offers great facilities
for the formation of a railway, and that there are no engineering
difficulties. The land is of a rich nature, and the neighbouring
country abounds with antiquities and beautiful scenery.
In offerin this project to public notice, the promoters feel them-
selves called upon to explain their reasons for introducing a scheme
which may be considered as competing with a line already adver-
tised from Harwich to Cambridge, and they feel satisfiod that after a
perusal of the facts which have induced them to pursue this course,
it will be admitted that the advantages offered by the present pro-

ject are superior in every respect to those of any other line.
The Commissioners on Harbours of Refuge have dotermincd on
improving the pert and harbour of Harwich, and, us in severe
weather this is the only port on this coast for which vessels can
make, it becomes of importance that a speedy communication with
London should be opened. During the last winter the mails from
Holland and other countries were landed here in order to avoid the
delay and danger attendant on a prolongation of the voyage up the
Thames. The line projected by Mr. Locke from Harwich to Col-
chester there is no doubt will be carried, and by the proposed con-
tinuation of that line from Colchester to Shelford, and thence by
the North-Eastern Railway to Cambridge, a saving in distance of
18 miles over any other projected line is ebtained,—and conse-
quently no Decessity exists for the obstruction to, or deterioration
of, ornament►tl property along so many miles of road, the
most valuable portion of the line; and this railway also passes
through towns tjt, tter suited for railway communication, and through
a country with a less undulating surface. It is also confidently be-
lieved, that by the construction of the branch line to the hythe or
port of Colchester, the aid of the Commissioners of that port will be
obtained, as great traffic exists between the port and the town of
Halstead, and thereby the profits of the Commissioners will be greatly
increased. The traffic from the tables, which have been most care-
fully prepared, and with moderation, appears to warrant a return of
at least 3 per cent. on the capital, without taking into consideration
the important additions which must result from the contemplated
improvement in the port and harbour of Harwich, by- which there
can be little doubt the number of passengers from and to the Con-
tinent will be enormous, for by this line a saving of time will be
effected to the following extent:—
The journey from London to Rotterdam will be performed in 12
hours, ttom London to Antwerp in 14 hours, and from London to
Hamburgh in 25 hours. The traffic in merchandise of all descrip-
tions will be greatly increased from the accommodation which will be
afforded by the improved port to vessels of every tonnage, in all
weathers, and at all times of the tide.
There is one point, however, to which the Committee beg most
particularly to invite the attention of the public and the commercial
world, which is, that not only will rapid railway communication be
opened with Bury St. Edmunds, Norwich, Yarmouth, and the metro-
polis, but a direct line of railway will be constructed between the
two coasts of England—the valuable commercial and continental
port of Harwich, in the east, and the manufacturing and densely-
' populated district of Liverpool and Manchester, in the north ; and it
is impossible to calculate the advantages which must result to share-
holders in this important project.
The public will perceive, therefore, that the benefitti to be derived
from this line over any other must be these :-
1. A more direct.
2. A saving of 18 miles.
3. A less expensive outlay,
4. Less opposition (if any at all) from landowners.
The Committee beg to state that the necessary forms will be ob-
served, and the documents prepared to enable them to offer the pro-
ject to Parliament in a complete form in the ensuing session ; and
they hope, from the favourable opinion which many noblemen and
gentlemen upon the route entertain of the superior advantages of
this project, with their offers of support, that other gentlemen locally
interested will be inclined to aid in carrying out a scheme which has
been prepared with the utmost care and attention to the interests of
the landed proprietors and the public generally.
The local population alone which will be benefited by the measure
is upwards of 70,000.
The Committee reserve the power of adopting such principle of
railway traction as may be found best calculated to attain the greatest
speed with economy and the public safety.
No calls will be made beyond the deposit until the Act be obtained,
and power will be taken in the Act to allow the usual interest upon
all calls.
The sources from which the traffic will be derived are :
I. From passengers proceeding from the midland and northern
counties, viz., Harwich, to the Continent and various parts of the
world, and from foreign passengers.
2. From local passengers between the termini.
3. From the carriage of the mails, merchandise, luggage, &c.
4. From the carriage of fish, which will be considerable.
5. From the agricultural produce and merchandise between the
important districts and populous towns on the line of road.
Applications for shares may be made to the solicitors, at the tem-
perary offices of the Company, 66, Aldermanbury, and 12, North-
street, Westminster, or to the under-mentioned brokers :—Mr. J. S.
Yeats, 6, Bank-chambers; Mr. Samuel Smith, 7, Bank-chambers;
Mr. P. M. Moorhouse, 9, Shorter's-court, Throgmorton.street ; Mr.
John Duncuft, Manchester; Messrs. Healy, Liverpool; Mr. David
Kinnear, 46, Hanover-street, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal,
Hull; Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds; and Messrs.
Edwards and Son, Bristol; Messrs. Girdwoods and Co.. Bernard-
street, Leith ; of whom prospectuses may be obtained, and no ap-
plication will be entertained unless made in the annexed form, and
accompanied by a respectable reference.
To the Provisional Committee of the Colchester and Cambridge
Direct Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201.
each in the above undertaking ; and I hereby engage to accept the
same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay
the deposit of 21. ss. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated this day of
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