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London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

BANKERS

London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Co., Lombard-street
" Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane
Leicester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Tamworth—The National Provincial Bank of England
Lichfield—Messrs. Palmer and Greene
Manchester—The Manchester and Salford Bank
Liverpool--The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.
The Managing Committee of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company have determined upon making au extension from
their line, commencing at ornear Market Bosworth or Twycross, and
running from thence by or near Atherstone and the Whitacre Junc-
tion of the Midlands (late Birmingham and Derby) Railway to Bir-
mingham. In the allotment of shares, due regard will be had to the
interests of the scrip holders in the Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company. The surveys are in progress, and the line is re-
ported as easy of construction, and free from engineering difficulties.
The twofold advantages offered by this project give it a manifest
superiority over every other scheme which has yet been devised for
traversing this rich and extensive, but hitherto unintersected portion
of the Midland Counties. The Leicester and Tamworth Junction, as
originally projected, brings, by means of the Trent Valley Railway,
the important manufacturing town of Leicester and the Midland and
Eastern Counties into immediate communication with the mining
districts and wool markets of Staffordshire and Shropshire, the great
towns of Liverpool and Manchester, and the intervening localities ;
whilst the projected extension affords the shortest practicable railway
route from Leicester to Birmingham, and the western and south-
western counties of England. The saving in distance between Lei-
cester and Birmingham will be seen by the following scale :
By Rugby By Tamworth Saving
Leicester to Liverpool ...• • • 147
Leicester to Manchester .. • . 134 .•
Leicester to Birmingham .... 49 .......... 35 .... •. • • 14
The construction of the Birmingham extension in conjunction with
the Leicester and Tamworth Railway gives this project an evident
advantage in point of expense over any independent line from Lei-
cester 'to Birmingham ; and, taking the inequalities of the country
into consideration, a more direct line does not appear desirable or
practicable, and the saving which which will be effected of more than
half the expense which must attach to the construction of an inde-
pendent line from Leicester to Birmingham is a most important
consideration.
Application for Shares may be addressed to the Secretary at the
Company's offices, 4, Coleman-street, London ; to the solicitors ; to
Messrs. Aston and Scott, Throgmorton-street, and to Messrs. Oswin
and Co., Angel-court, London.

No applieations will be attended to unless accompanied by a re•
ference to a member of the Managing Committee, or to ono of the
solicitors.

FORM OF APPLICATION.

To the Managing Commitee of tile Leicester and Tamworth Junction
Railway Company's Extension to Birmingham.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me - Shares of 201.
each in the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same
or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit
thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary contract and sub-
scribers' agreement when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
I am, Gentlemen, ycur obedient servant,
Profession or business
Reference • •• •• • •••••• •• •• • • •• •• .
Numbers of Scrip Certificates in the
Leicester and Tamworth Junction Railway} ••• ••••••••••••••••.

LEICESTER AND TAMWORTII
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
A meeting of the Committee of Management was held on Monday,
the 15th instant, at the offices of J. Hemel, Esq., in Tamworth, at
which Edmund Peel, Esq., Chairman of the Leicester and Tamworth
and the Trent Valley Railway presided.
The engineering report submitted to the meeting was highly satis-
factory, both as to gradients and distances, showing that the line is
easy of construction, and forms the nearest possible route from
Leicester to Liverpool, Holyhead, the whole of North Wales, and the
counties of Chester, Stafford, and Salop, whilst the extension of only
10 mlles running from Bosworth or Twycross, by the manufacturing
:Own of AthOrstOne, will Priag Leicotter as near to Dirnaiagliam as