The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-22 00:00:00

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.

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The line of railway which is now proposed for adoption is a
material link in the general railroad system, not only as connecting
the city of Salisbury with the county town of Dorsetshire and the
seaport and watering-place of Weymouth, but as an essential com-
pletion of the channel of communication from the whole of the
northern, midland, and north-eastern counties to the coast of
Dorset.
The Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Company (already
incorporated by Act of Parliament,) the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway, and the Rugby, Swindon, and
Weymouth Direct Junction Railway (Loth now in projection), will
supply ample means of transit between Dorchester and Weymouth ;
but the city of Salisbury, in which many lines from the east, north,
and west, are proposed to converge, requires the railway now sug-
gested as a natural extension of "The Oxford awl Salisbury Direct
Railway," at present before the public. These two lines would thus
become powerful adjuncts to each other.
Commencing at Salisbury, it is proposed to proceed, in a slightly
curved line by or near to Cranborne, to Blandford, and thence, by or
near to Bere-Regis and Piddletown, to Dorchester, a distance in the
whole of about forty-five miles. A grand trunk line of railway, from
the northern districts of Great Britain to the coast of Dorset, will by
this mean:: be perfected ; and the market-towns of Cranborne, Bland.
ford, and Bere-Regis, and the Parliamentary borough of Dorchester,
will also be furnished with railroad accommodation.
The experience of the last few years has abundantly proved that
the railwa:, system must advance as a matter of indispensable neces-
sity. The hitherto partial operation of that system, whilst it has
afforded unparalleled and unexpected facilities to the transactions of
business in all its branches, to domestic and friendly intercourse,
and to the indulgence of rational enjoyment and recreation, by ex-
peditious and economical means of transit, in those directions and lo-
calities in which it prevails, has to a most inconvenient extent pro-
duced difficulties in other districts formerly sufficiently supplied with,
but now deprived of, the means of posting and mail and stage-coach
travelling. The conveyance of goods is obstructed by similar
obstacles ; it having been found much cheaper to adopt the transit
by the nearest railroad, however circuitous in its route, and thoagh
remote in its most proximate junction, than to resort to the former
means of traffic, which have consequently ceased to exist. It
would perhaps be difficult to point out a district in England to
which these remarks more properly apply than the tract of country
now proposed to be traversed from Salisbury to Blaudford and Dor-
chester.
A prospectus, with a map of the line, and the names of a powerful
Provisional Committee, will very shortly be published. In the mean-
time, further inforthation may be obtained trom Messrs. Elmslie and
Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London, the solicitors to the under-
taking ; or the Secretary, Z. Hubbersty, Esq., at the office of the
Company, No. 37, Gresham-street.

PROSPECTUS OF THE
BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices-5, Guildhall Chambers, Basingkall-street.
Capital, 800,000/., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.