The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

'IIIHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
AL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, lIUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSIIALL.

(Provisionally registered.)
Capitall,2oo,oool., in 43,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 15s. per. Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

Th 3 importance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is how proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a conspiete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of commun'eation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borouth of Abingdon,
the market towns of Wastage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for tho interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.
The want of railway, accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the Important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedli ne at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to "%Vantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, llungerford and Ludgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis-
tricts. _ . _ _

A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica-
tion for ;hares may be made.