The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

DUDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
Combining the broad and narrow gauges, in continuation of the

Oxford, 'Worcester, and Wolverhampton line.
Capital 200,0001., in 8,1:00 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
This line will commence at the station of the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton Railway, at Dudley, and run into the line of
the Grand Junction Company near to Birmingham. It will traverse
or pass in the Immediate vicinity of the following populous manu-
facturing towns and places, viz., Great Bridge, Swan Village, Old-
bury, West Bromwich, Randsworth, and Smetliwick, and In its
-course it evil afford railway accommodation to a manufacturing and
.mining population of upwama of a quarter of a million.
The names of the places of the proposed termini, and the above
indication of the course of the intended line, must abundantly sa-
tisfy every one that it presents the certainty of a lucrative traffic
both in goods and in passengers. It is :tiniest unnecessary to speak
further of so plain a necessity as that of railway accommodation for
such a district.
The wonder would be that the propose ad not been es/a--
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Minh: d long belbra, were it not for one very obvious and very poten-
tial reason lo which it is owing that this rich district has hitherto
been suffered to remain destitpte of railway accommodation. The
district has been up m this time deprived of the laents of railway
means- of transit because it
.w.is one or of the
Bit minginun Canal cuier,:itiy ; ant IL is to overet,me • the depressing
iniinence-of such a destitution that the present plan has been pro-
jected. _ _

The intended line will not interfere with any existing Tine of
railway, but it will materially extend the usefulness of the several
lines about to be connected with Dudley, and -in particular that
great mining district trunk line, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver
hampton Railway, as also the Shrewsbury and South Staffordshire
Junction; besides, it will afford to the populous; districts around
Dudley and Birmingham the dirict benefits of fair and liberal com-
petition in pass ginger conveyance and in the transit of their industrial
products to their tr;ncipal market.

The number of omnibuses, coaches, and swift canal packet-boats-
continually travelling between the termini, aftbrd the strongc st as
surancc of the prospect of a lar e pueseuger traffic : while the bulky
nature and vast extent of the mining and m ,nniacturing produce of
this well-known district equally vouch for that In goods; and the
whole leaves no doubt but that the financial returns of such an un-
dertaking must yield an ample remuneration fur the capital ex-
pended.

In an engineering point of view, it has been ascertained, by careful
surveys, that the line is highly favourable, and presents not the
slightest difficulty, so that altogether there is probably no line of rail
way now before the public so much entitled in every way to the
favourable consideration of the parties locally interested, or of
capitalists in general. The former have aireaoy evinced the warmest
interest in the proposed line ; and indeed it is mainly owing to
urgent local suggestions that the projected railway has been under-
taken. _ . .

No fluffier call (beyond the deposit) will be made until the Act
shall be obtained ; and power will be applied for in such Act to
allow riatertst at fonr per cent. per annum on the deposits and
calls from the date of cacti payment until the opening of the line.
Art influential .P;ovisional Committee will be published in
few days. _ _ _ _

Application 4. for shares may be addessed to
Mr. F. T. ELG I E, Solicitor, Worcester, or
Mr. JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley, i Joint Solicitors.
Oct. 7, 180.