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London, England, 1845-06-28 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS,

NOTTINGHAM and BOSTON RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 750,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
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Subscribers will not be answerable beyond the- amount of their re-
spective Shares.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

John Rawson, Esq., Mayor of Boston
Sir James Duke, Knt., M.P.
Thomas Gee, Esq., Banker, Boston
Sir George Lefevre, M.D., 60, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, Di-
rector of the Wells and Dereham Railway Company
John Oldrid, Esq., Magistrate, Boston
Thomas Spalding, Lag., London
Charles Wright, Esq., Alderman, Boston
Thomas Wise, jun., Esq., Banker, Boston
William Porter, Esq., Rochford Tower, Boston
John Noble, Esq., Boston
John Churchill. Esq., Bayswater, London, Director of the Manches-
ter and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway
Company
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 198, Strand, London
John Dodsley, Esq.
John Hardy, Esq., Banker, Grantham
Sir John Hare, 11, Langham-place, London, Director of the London
and Windsor Railway Company
Nathaniel Wedd, Esq., Merchant, Boston
William Mann, Esq., Banker, Boston
Robert Palmer, Esq., Kennington, near London
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve, Manchester
Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, Whitehall
John Elsam, Esq., Magistrate, Boston
Daniel Jackson, Esq., Boston
Charles Wright, jun., Esq., Merchant, Boston
Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Sherwood Cottage, Bayswater
Jelin Sturdy, Esq., Magistrate, Boston
James Edward Tuxford, Esq., Magistrate, Boston
William Little, Esq., Eye, near Peterborough
George Bacon, Esq., Nottingham
William Hannay, Esq. Nottingham
Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq., Nottingham
William Bridges Adams, Esq., Adam-street, Idelphl
John Pap. Esq., Boston
John Holliday Thomas, Esq., Boston.
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir James Duke, Knight, M.P., Chairman
Sir John Hare, Knight, Vice-Chairman
John Rawson, Esq. William Hannay, Esq.
John Oldrid, Esq. Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq.
Herbert Ingram, Esq. Nathaniel Cooke, Esq,
John Hardy, Esq. Thomas Spalding, Esq.
William Mann, Esq. William Porter, Esq.
Captain Douglas K. Pulteney
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Co., Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, Lombard-street,
London
Messrs. Garin, Claypons, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Hardy, Walkington, and Hardy, Grantham
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, Boston
Messrs. Henry and Thomas Gee and Co., Boston
Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottingham
The National Provincial Bank of England, Bolden
Liverpool and Manchester District Bank.
ENGINEER.—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., F.S.A.
ASSISTANT ENGINEER.—WiIIiam Lewin, Esq., Boston.
SECRETARY.—B. Brough, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL.—W. H. Adams, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Middle

Temple.
SOLICITORS. •
Messrs. Hopkins and Rice, Boston
Messrs. Thomas and Moore, 7, South-square, Gray's Inn,
Londoa
Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham
T. Winter, Esq., Grantham.
Office of the Company, 14, Birchin-lane, Lombard-street, London.
The formation of a railway from Nottingham to Boston is, unques-
tionably, of the greatest importance to the whole of the districts and
towns which it will connect, and will prove highly advantageous to
the manufacturing and agricultural interests. By reference to the
map of England, it will be seen that Boston is only about forty-eight
miles from Nottingham, while all other sea-ports, on the east coast,
are at a much greater distance from Nottingham. A very great
traffic already exists between Boston and Nottingham, which may be
increased almost to an incalculable amount when the facilities
of railway transit are completed. The export trade from Boston is
now comparatively limited, by the want of means of conveyance
from the manufacturing districts, which this railroad will supply.
Boston is situate in the midst of the finest land in the kingdom;
and this part of Lincolnshire may be justly termed the garden of the
manufacturing district of England. The produce of the whole dis-
trict, particularly Its wheat, is consumed in the large manufacturing
towns ; and the carriage of corn and cattle, to the great centres of
population, will alone furnish a constant and certain source of
revenue.
In addition to this, a large traffic will be carried along the line,
in manufactured goods, and in coal and lime from the Nottingham-
shire and Derbyshire coal fields, to rural districts through which it
passes, and to the shore of the German Ocean; the latter traffic is
yet to be developed, and with the cheap transit provided by this line
the important article of coal will compete at a great advantage to
the consumer with the prcsent supply, which is now brought by sea
from Newcastle.
A very considerable amount of the vast staple produce of Notting-
nam, Derby, Loughborough, Leicester, and the neighbourhood, which
is exported to Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Germany, and All other
parts of the Baltic, is now conveyed by a circuitous and expensive
route to Hull and London, and thence, after repeated removals by
ship or steamer, to its destination; whereas, on the completion of this
line, it would be transmitted direct to Boston, and thence to the be-
fore-mentioned places, in much less time, and at a much less expense.
Boston is not only the nearest seaport town to Nottingham, but it
is the natural seaport of the manufacturing towns of the whole of the
midland district, and it is the most convenient, safest, and best
situated on the eastern coast, for the shipment and transhipment of
merchandise. By recent improvements the river, or arm of the sea,
which runs through the centre of the town, has been widened and
deepened, thus affording means for vessels of from three to four hun-
dred tons burthen, to take in and discharge their cargoes at the
wharf-side, without risk or damage, an object of importance not only
in point of security to the goods, but also in the saving of expense
usually incurred for lighter charges.
The nature of the country through which the line will pass is most
favourable in its facilities for construction : it is nearly all a dead level.
The cost of construction will be as low as that of any line in the
kingdom ; and the Company will not have to encounter the opposi-
tion of the owners of the land and estates through which the line will
pass, they being, as far as can be ascertained, most favourably dis-
posed towards the undertaking.
It will be seen that the proposed line combines all the elements of
a profitable railway ; it has a seaport town at one of the termini ;
it passes through a rich and productive agricultural district, to the
great seats of manufacture and consumption, each being a certain
source of traffic ; and it affords ready communication with the
southern, northern, and midland counties.
It is intended to apply for power in the Act to allow four per cent.
interest upon deposits, until the completion of the line.
Applications for shares may be made in the subjoined form, at
the Office of the Company, 14, Birchin-lane, Lombard-street, London;
or to the Solicitors.
No person need apply for shares unless the application is accom-
panied by an unexceptionable reference. A certain number of shares
will be reserved for owners of land on the line, and for parties resident
in the locality through which the line will pass.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Boston Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares,
of twenty-five pounds each, in the above undertaking ; and I agree to
accept the same, or any smaller number that may be allotted to me,
and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary contract
and subscribers' agreement when required.—l ant, Gentlemen, your
obedient servant,
Residence.. • • • • • . • • • • • • " • •
Profession •••• • • • • • "

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NOTTINGHAM and BOSTON RAILWAY.
No'irT berel,Y rtivci, that no further Application for
Shares will be r: c, iv 30t11

By order of the Committee of Management,
14, Eirchln-lane, London. B. aBouGH, Seeretary.

The morn line of this important undertaking will commence at the
abrupt termination of the Macclesfield branch of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway at Macclesfield, and proceed thence in an
almost direct line to a point on the Trent Valley Railway near to
Atherstone, and about fifteen miles north-west of Rugby.
It will therefore embrace in its course the towns of Leek, Cheadle,
Tean, Littoxeter, Tutbury, and Burton-upon-Trent, the coal-fields
and Potteries of Swadlincote and Gresley, and the baths and coal-
fields of Moira, the whole of which wealthy and important tract of
country (with the exception of the town of Burton) is wholly destitute
of railway accommodation.
From Tean it is intended to construct a branch through the Staf-
fordshire Potteries by way of Longton, Lane End, Stoke-upon-Trent,
and Newcastle-under-Lyre, to Crewe and Nantwich, uniting at
Crewe with the numerous railways centering there, and joining at
Nantwich the railways about to be formed by the conversion of the
Ellesmere and Chester, and Birmingham and Liverpool Junction
Canals.

It is also intended to construct a branch from the main line, at or
near Tutbury to Derby.
Such is the project, comprising the best parts of the old and well-
known " Manchester South Union" Scheme, which, in the year 1836,
elicited from a Committee of the House of Commons the most un-
qualified expressions of approval, and which an inspection of the map
of the country will show to be highly desirable, indeed almost India.
pensable for the public interest.

It will open a shorter communication from Manchester, Stockport,
and Macclesfield, to London (by Rugby), and from Derby (and the
towns northward) to London, than any other line now before the
public.

It will unite Manchester with Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, and
the whole of the Midland and Eastern Counties.
It will afford to Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, and Burton-upon-
Trent, the most direct communication with the Staffordshire Potteries,
Crewe, Chester, Runcorn, Liverpool, and the new Docks at Birken-
head, as well as with North Wales and Ireland.
By its means the towns of Leak, Cheadle, Teen, tTttoxeter, Tut-
bury, and the surrounding country, will receive, for the first time, the
benefits of railway communication, and the rich and extensive coal
fields of Biddulph, Poynton, Adlington, Cheadle, Gresley, Swadlin-
cote. and Moira, will be opened to the whole kingdom.
The traffic must necessarily be immense, and the returns highly
remunerative.

Thus the Committee are enabled to bring forward a legitimate and
independent undertaking, having due regard to a profitable invest-
ment of capital, as well as to the interest and accommodation of the
public.

The Committee desire to add, that in presenting, in its present
shape, their complete and comprehensive scheme independently of
another Railway not actually formed, or now under the consideration
of Parliament, they are not influenced by a wish to supplant other
parties who may have a legitimate claim to any portion of the ground
they propose to occupy, but simply by a desire to form a shorter com-
munication between the great towns of Lancashire, Cheshire, and
Staffordshire, and the Metropolis and the Midland and Eastern Coun-
ties, and to secure to a great district yet unopened, that Railway accom-
modation which its wealth and importance demand, whatever may be
the fate of other projects which may have in view the partial or im-
perfect attainment of somewhat similar objects.
Powers will be taken in the Act to allow interest at the rate of 4/.
per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls until the opening of the
Line.

Applications for Shares may be addressed to the Solicitors ; or to
the following Sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Co.,
Messrs. Barry and Co., or Mr. D. B. Major, London ; Messrs. Earp
and Son, Derby; Messrs. Scholes and Horsfall, Messrs. Fletcher and
Shit' p, or Mr. John Greaves, Liverpool ; Messrs. T. Cardwell and
Sons, Manchester ; Messrs. Hartley and Ingham, Leeds ; Mr.
Tatham, Nottingham ; and Mr. Charles Townsend, Chester.