The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry,! and Birmingham, with Nottingham,

Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 450,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. eacb.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Matthew Gishome, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire

Sir Edwin Pearson, 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park, Director of
the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway

Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. .street

William Collins, Esq., ALP. for Warwick, Director of the Leicester
and Tamworth Railway _ .

Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent

Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, POrtman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway

Major Willer, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands

Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., IS, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, Director of the

Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
John Lucena Ross Kettle, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. Cliesham-street, Belgrave-square
Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of
the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Ruding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of

Ireland
John Rawson,Esq., Halifax, Depaty Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
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Director of the tiverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburaham House, Chairman

of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Rsworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crowe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,

London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.R.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Giaborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leioester and

ramworth Railway --
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York

Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park

George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the, Commercial

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Bank of London
Lancelot Llewhellyn Haslope, Esq., Lifford, near Birmingham, Di-
rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway
John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
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Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and

- Crewe Railway
W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway
Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, tipper Hyde Park-street, Director of the
Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway

John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne

John B. Story, Esq., iociington Hall, Leicester

Captain Holden, Locko Park, Derbyshire

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The Mayor of Nottingham
George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
William Charles Boden, Esq., Apslcy Hall, Nottingham

Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham
Henry Attenborough, Esq., Nottingham

_Williim Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham
William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
Lewis Heyman, Esq., merchant, Nottingham
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Alfreton

Joshua Harding, Esq.,Rosliston, Derbyshire

Morris Piddocke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent

Robert Collings eilbertson, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITM.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.

Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arma-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchonge-buildings,

BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.

The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,

Covent-garden.

The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.
This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, M easham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time a rich mineral and agricultural district will be supplied with
railway advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln. and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and It
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be very great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about twenty miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham, the saving will be about
six miles. Being the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from► Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be about 28 miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative.
Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their Subscriptions. ;4
TABLE OF DISTANCES.

By proposed
Present Distances. Miles Saving
Route, about
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Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby .. about 71 z 5 20
Warwick to Nottingham, by 51
Rugby and Leicester • • ....do. 65 Z 14
Warwick to Lincoln ........do. 97 83 14
Coventry to Nottingham •• .. do. 62 42 20
Coventry to Lincoln ........ do. ..............20 •
Birmingham to Nottingham.. clod 55 49 6
Birmingham to Lincoln ......do.i •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby ....do.l 100 86 14

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will he
attended to.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and

Coventry Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such loss number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
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