The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-08-12 00:00:00

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HULL AND sELta- 4RAILWAY COMPANY._
N Act of Parliament lige:in, been obtained for the forma-
4. of this Railway, the Directors have the pleasure to
inform the Shareholders that they are taking measures for com-
mencing the execution of the work with the least possible
delay.
All Persons holding Scrip Certificates, and claiming to be
Proprietors of Shares in the Company, are requested to send a
statement of their claims,.with their Christian and Surnames at
full length; also their Residence and Occupatio or Profession,
to Mr. LOCKING, the Secretary',7at the Railw y-office, No. 3b,
Salthouse-laue. Hull, (postage free) on o efore SATURDAY,
the 20th day of August next, in order to th r being registered
reparatory to the General Meeting of the Proprietors, to be
held pursuant to the provisions of the Act, and of which due
Notice will be riven.
The Scrip Certificates must be sent for examination at the
same time, for which Receipts will be given until the sealed
Certificates, in the form prescribed by the Act, are ready for
delivery; and in those cases in whicn the particulars above
required are not received within the time limited, the Names of
the originai Subscrii,ers will be entered in the Sealed Register
of Proprietors.

HENRY BROADLEY,
Chairman of the Directors.

Hull, 26th July, 1836.

NORTHERN ANDEASTERN RAILWAY.

AT-anumerous and highly respectable MEETING of the
PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY, herd for the first
time under the authority of the Act of Parliament ncorporating
the Company, and in pursuance of notice accor ug to the pro-
visions of said Act, at the City of London Ta rn, in Bishop-
gate-street, at Twelve o'clock- on FRIDAY, th th instant,
JOHN BAGSHAW, M.P. in Chair.
After the Report of the Directors had be read.
It was moved by Henry George Ward,: q., M.P., seconded
by Charles Downes, Esq., and carried unanimously,
That the Report of the Directors now read be received and
adopted, and that the Directors be requested to print and circu-
late the same.
It WAS moved by Rowland Alston, Esq., M.P., seconded by
Christoph.n. Pemberton, of Cambridge, and carried unani-
mously,
That the Thanks of the Proprietors be given to the Provisional
Committee and Directors for their able and successful manage-
ment of the affairs of the Company.
It was moved by Henry Handley, Esq., M.P., seconded by
Edward Fletcher, Esq., and carried unanimously,
That the following Gentlemen be the Directors of the Com-
pany under the authority of the Act of Parliament:—
Rowland Gardiner Alston, Esq John Marshall, Esq.
John Bagshaw, Esq., .M.P. William Marshall, Esq.
Sir W. Plunkett de Bathe, Bt folin Masterman, Jun., Esq.
John Carruthers, Esq. William Rhodes, Esq.
Sir William Gossett Reek Goring Thomas, Esq.

Charles Johnston, Esq. Hen-fy Usborne, Esq.
Francis Kemble, Esq. Wm. Gordon Thomson, Esq.
Robert Wm. Kennard, Esq. William Vizard, Jun., Esq.
Roger Kynaston, Jun., Esq. Henry Geo. Ward, Esq., M.P.
It was moved by John Masterman, Jun., Esq., seconded by
Wm. Gordon Thomson, Esq.. and carried unanimously,
That the Thanks of the Proprietors be presented to Mr.
Walker, the Engineer to the Company, for his zealous and
valuable services since his connection with the Company.
It was moved by Rees Goring Thomas. Esq., seconded by
Wm. Rhodes, Esq., and carried unanimously,
That the Thanks of the Proprietors be presented to Messrs.
Vizard and Leman, the Solicitors to the Company, for the judg-
ment and success with which they have conducted their depart-
ment of the Company's affairs.
It was moved by Charles Johnston, Esq., seconded by Roger
Kynaston, Jun., Esq., and carried unanimously,
That the Thanks of the Proprietors be given to Mr. Rowcroft
and Mr. Hodges, the Secretaries to the Company, for their
zealous, constant, and persevering labours in the service of the
Company.
(Signed) JOHN BAGSHAW, Chairman.
9 CHARLES RowcaoF Secretaries.
SEPTIMUS HODGES,

WORCESTERAND OXFORD RAILWAY. AND CHEL-
TEN HAM AND OXFORD RAILWAY.

AN Advertisement having appeared in the Worcestershire
and other Papers, setting forth certain facts relative to
these Railways, which are calculated to mislead those who are
not perfectly acquainted with the subject, the following State-
ments are placed in juxta-position, to show h w the case really
stands; and are published by authority of t Directors of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and London, and iriningham Union
Railway Company. By order,
ROBERT WILLIAM JEA RAD, Secretary.
" The Grand Connection comrA ATIVE DISTANCES.

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with Stourport, Kidderminster, Z.'. S- •
Stourbridge, Dudley, and Wol- x •,-, 'O-
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verhampton, and also by means s ss.
of the Grand Junction Rail-
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" The populous manufac- a •..
turing•towns thus communicat 7
ing with Worcester, impera-
tively require the advantage of P
a continued Line of Railway Worcester to miles.
to London." London 124
Stourport 136
KidderininSter 139
Stourbridge 146
. . Wolverhamp-
ton
Dudley
Cheltenham l2l 93
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Gloucester
I. "ewkesbury . 13'2 l 106
"The extensive district he- The fact is, the section made
yond Worcester, is no less in- through North Wales, in the
terested in promoting. such a direction of Worcester, has
measure, and especially in been abandoned as unpractica•
contemplation of a projected ble; and the section to the Li-
Railway to a tart on the coast verpool and Birmingham Rail-
of Carnarvonshire, designed as way, near Wolverhamton, has
a new line of communication been adopted by the parties
between Dublin and London, making the surveys. And, as
which would naturally adopt is above stated, Worcester and
Worcester as a fixed point in the districts beyond are fur-
the mcA. direct course. nished with a Line to London
from 5 to 30 miles shorter by
way of Cheltenham, than by
means of the projected Worces-
ter and Oxford Railway.
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" Under these circumstances The truth is, that no direct
the promoters of this under- line to Oxford can be found
taking resolved to secure the even 120 feet lower than the
line best adapted to Locomotive south pass of the Cotswolds at
Power, embracing in the high- Dowdeswell—and the addi-
est degree the requisites of tional fact in this case of a
speed and economy ; and having summit of more than 400 feet
caused a general survey of the to rise over iu 13 miles, or a
country to be made, consulted gradient of one in 170, and
Engineers of eminence as to which can only be reduced to
the most eligible mode of ac- an average gradient of one in
complishing their object before 210 by cutting and embank-
they could finally determine snouts, such as no engineer has
the course to be pursued." ventured to adopt on any ex-
" The result of that investi- istiug line of Railway, is
gallon has shown that aline as evidently a formidable, if not
nearly direct as practicable to an inSurmournable obstacle to
Oxford would surmount the the whole schetire.
Gloucestershire range of hills
by a summit at least 190 ft. lower
than any other southerly pass
across the Cotswold hills; arid
there does not appear to be any
natural obstacles to the forma-
tion of a Railway capable of
being worked, for tine whole dis- ,
tance, by locomotive engines."
" The summit of the ground The summit selected for the
which was selected to the east Cheltenham and Oxford Rail-
ofCheltenhamforaline towards way, is only 405 feet above the
Oxford, is 650 feet above Glou- depot in. the former town, and
cester.—The summit between is at once surmounted in the
Worcester and Oxford is only most advantageous and econo-
-400 feet above the same point, mical manner; while the sum-
and the section taken shows wit level between Worcester
other comparative advantages and Oxford, is 404 feet above
in favour of this undertaking." the River- Avon, and can only
be surmounted by a continued
• series of gradients, highly un-
favourable to the whole line as
regards the employment of Lo-
comotive Power.
"The country between Eves- On the Worcester and Ox-
ham and Cheltenham is nearly foal Line,
there would be 82
level,and presents everts facility miles of new Railway to be
for the construction of a Rail• made to .connect Wt;reester,
Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, and
way, if circumstances should
render it desirable." Oxford, (leaving out Glouces-
" The line to Oxford will be ter,) with London—whilst on
about 57 miles in length." the Cheltenham and Oxford
Line there will be only 58 miles
..: of new R ailway to be wade to
connect Worcester, Chelten-
ham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury,
and Oxford, with London, with-
out the necessity of taking the
traffic of Cheltenham end
Tewkesbury 15 miles round to
swell the receipts of the pro-
posed new Railway. .
"There are inclinatiookf 16 „The truth is, that the Great
feet per mile on the LonSis:.:nt.l
Birmingham Railway, between 8 feet per mile
Western Railway has inclina-
tions of nearly
London and Tring, for a consi-
on th,, portion bet
derable portion ot thedistance ; between Oxford
and London. 13ut to
.dispose
while the greatest inclination
upon the Great Western and of the practical question :
Oxford Railway will be only 4 A locomotive Engine, such
feet per mile." as that now in use, (without.
contemplating what may be
done hereafter) will take 150
passengers, in one train, at a
speed of 20 to 25 miles per hour,
, the greatest average speed yet
maintained on any Railway up
a rise of it; feet in one mile.
A contract to perform this,
upon the London and Birming-
ham Railway, for one farthing
. . per mile for each passenger,
has been entered into by the
Directors of that Company.
We challenge the Great West-
ern, or an other Railway Com-
pany, to show any contract for
working their line either quick-
.. This Railway will • er nr cheaper." . .
all the Trafli,, f ' --combine The Traffic of Worcester
11, Kidder-
Worcester, stortierm the towns of supports three long Coaches,
minster, Stourbrridn (the Sovereign, Telegraph, and
wick, Bewdley, 4,,• Droit- Mail,) to London.—The Traffic
Ludlow, Leominster,Risslrove, of Cheltenham supports eight
Evesham, and the ad" aren't long Coaches to London.
districts; and also, for the s
mostt Let those who may have en-
part, from Herefordshire, tertsined the idea of involving
Shropshire, and Wales."
themselves in the shares of this
ipec."lnok well to these facts.
Scheme,i,3.., and its " combined
" Having upon these groundi
parties, to inquire
established the general dire,. shungwgfiottiun,eld, in the last place,
uential gentle_
undertaking, have
with
lion of the Line. proposals were
made by the Worcester Coin- men nominally
made
ae been
as
ittria,,inted
mittee to associt'te some Gen- the
or
tlemen connected with Oxford consulted,
o f large Roll
and London in the manage- with the'details—
ment of the undertaking ; and known that the estates
arrangements have been made proprietors will be cut up by
to that effect:" the proposed :Railway in a
manner that will meet with the
most decided opposition.

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