The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-18 00:00:00

BRISTOL and SOUTH WALES JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Extension Line of about fifteen miles from the New Passage to
Monmouth, from whence Lines are about to be made to Ross, Here-
ford, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, &c.
Provisionally registered.
Capital, 250,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21.
per Share.

PR DIRECTORS.
James Gibbs, Esq., ChaiO
rman,VISIONAL Director of the Bristol and Exeter,
and the South Devon Railways.
Rickard Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester
Railway.
William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter, South
Devon, and Bristol and Gloucester Railways,
Samuel Lang, Esq.
Francis Fry, Esq. 2 Directors of the Bristol and Glouces-
Robert Leonard, Esq. s tor Railway . - -
--
-Richard Fry, Esq.
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester
and South Devon Railways.
William Day Wills, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter and Bir-
mingham and Gloucester Railways.
Charles Bowles Fripp, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter and
South Devon Railways.
ENGINEER.—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Savery, Clark, and Company, Bristol.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, London.
SECRETARY.--George Shapland, Esq., Exchange Buildings, Bristol
On the formation of the Bristol and South Wales Junction Rail-
way Company, in April last, the Directors requested their engineers
to survey the country on the Monmouthshire side of the Severn,
with a view to ascertain the most eligible line for a railway to Mon-
mouth, as that town and district would not be conveniently connected
with Bristol by any of the railways then projected. Various circum-
stances delayed the Engineer's report, and during the interval a
scheme, of a more extensive character, has been brought forward—
viz., one for a railway from Bristol to Hereford, with a fixed
bridge across the river Severn, at the Aust Passage.
After the most full deliberation, the Directors consider that the
announcement of this project ought not to alter the course they
had intended to pursue, of providing the public with a mode of tra-
velling from Bristol to Monnlouth suited to the resources of the coun-
try, and to the surmountable difficulties incident to a large navigable
river. They can see no reason to expect that the Lords of the Admi-
ralty (whose sanction the recant Land Clauses Consolidation Act has
rendered necessary when a railway is to be carried over a tidal
river), will look on a bridge across the estuary of the Severn, where
it is nearly a mile and a half in width, with greater favour than they
have lately shown with regard to one where the same river is only
six hundred yards wide, and is not navigated by large vessels ; and
from long experience in railway business, the Directors are convinced
that no adequate revenue for an outlay of two millions upon forty-
eight miles of country, possessing no peculiar resources, can justly
be anticipated.
They have carefully examined into all possible sources of traffic 1
and though they are of opinion that a gross Income might be pro-
duced, of about two thousand pounds per mile, per annum, which
would yield a fair return on the cost of a railway connecting
.Chep7
stow and Monmouth, as a link in the general railway scheme for
that district, they believe that no person acquainted with railway
statistics can justly anticipate an additional net revenue of Five per
Cent. upon one million pounds, the smallest sum at which the
bridge can be estimated.
It should be recollected that many years must elapse before such
a stupendous work across a rapid navigable river of such depth
and width, and with the greatest rise of tide known in the world,
could be completed, even if subscribed capital for such a purpose
could be relied upon, and also that ere long the distance between
Bristol and the north, and north west of England will be so much
lessened by the lines of railway now before Parliament and the
public, that sixteen miles will be the utmost saving in travelling from
Brisk)]. to Liverpool via Monmouth, while to Manchester, the rail-
ways via Gloucester must still afford the most direct communication.
Whenever two routes of equal facilities are open to the public, the
proprietors of either ought not to anticipate more than half the
travelling, and therefore the Directors believe that any expectation
of monopolising the long traffic between Bristol and Liverpool, or
the adjacent districts, is fallacious. For these reasons the project for
a bridge across the Severn, and for the 48 miles of railway, to be con-
nected with it (requiring a gross revenue of 150,000/. per a nn mrnt
pay the necessary expenses, only five per cent. upon the peso
estimate of two million pounds), can never be regarded favourably
in a financial view by any parties who inquire into the average re-
ceipts per mile resulting from railway or bridge traffic.
The Directors have felt it necessary to make these observations on
the undertaking referred to as an explanation why they still pro-
ceed with their own plans precisely as they would have done had
such a scheme never been announced.
They have the great satisfaction to state, that the Bristol and
South Wales Junction Railway, together with the improvements at
the New Passage Ferry, and the proposed extension line to Mon-
mouth, will be constructed under the superintendence of Mr. Brunel,
and they are confident that through his skill and experience the in-
conveniences of a ferry will be modified far beyond public expectation.
When the Severn is reached by the Railway from Bristol and
crossed at the New Passage, the traveller will be in the direct route to
Newport, Cardiff, and South Wales on the one side, and on the other
to Chepstow and Monmouth, from which latter town various lines
are aboat to be constructed to Hereford, Shrewsbury, North Wales,
Chester, Liverpool, &c.
The Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway was promoted to
maintain the very ancient connexion between Bristol and the Prin-
cipality, and the proposed extension of It to Monmouth will have a
similar tendency in reference to the towns of Chepstow and Mon
mouth, and the districts in which they arc situated.

The Directors therefore believe that it will receive the strong sup-
port both of the Shareholders in the Bristol and South Wales Junc-
tion Railway, as a protection of :heir interests, and of the inhabitants
of South Wales and Monmouthshire, as a certain and early means of
securing railway communication with Bristol and the districts to be
reached by the various railways connected with that city.
It has been considered more judicious to form a separate Company
for the extension lin• to Monmouth than to alter the Bristol and
South Wales Junction Railway Company at present, but powers are
proposed to be taken for uniting the two Companies hereafter with
the assent of their respective Proprietors. It is also intended to pay,
interest on the calls at 4 per cent.
The Shareholders in the Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway
Company will be considered entitled to shares in this Company, and
therefore such of them as may be applicants are requested te state
the number of Shares they already holftin the former.
Prospectuses and Forms of Application may be obtained, on ap-
plying personally, or by letter, to the Solicitors and Secretary,
and also,

At Exeter—To Mark Kinnaway, Esq., Solicitor.
At Liverpool—To Messrs. Littledale and Bardswell, Solicitors.
At Manchester—To Messrs. Slater and Heelis.
At Chepstow—To J. L. Baldwin, Esq., Solicitor.
At Newport—To Messrs. Protheroe and Towgood, Solicitors.
At Cardiff—To Thomas Dalton, Esq., Solicitor.
At Swansea—To I. J. Price, Esq., Solicitor.
FORM OF APPLICATION..
To the Provisional Directors of the Bristol and South Wales June.

Bon Railway Extension Line to Monmouth, -- s.—.V
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 251.
each, in the proposed Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway
Extension Line to Monmouth, on the terms and conditions of the
Prospectus; and I undertake to pay the deposit and sign the neces-
sary Deeds, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.

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" Hat" kept out the rain, like a famous " repeller,"
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Till the struggle was o'er, and his foe cried—" Enough ."
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tions for self-measurement, may now be had on application, Or for-
warded post-free.

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