The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

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KENT RAILWAY', from
, Greenwich; Woolwich,
.Rochesthr,' Chatham, Sittingboi
Sandwich. and Deal; alit' to ftz
CAPITAL £2,000,000, IN 40,
Deposit £2
PROVISIONAL
Lieut.-Col: Sir A. Leith Hay, I
K.C.C:S., M.P.
PeterHeskethFleetwood,Esp,
William Pinney, Esq., M.P. •
Owen T. Alger, Esq.
13orradaile; Esq.
John Btothers, Esq. •
Edward HUghes, Esq.
George Money, Esq. •
.Robert Page, Esq.
'Bankers—Messrs. Spooner; Attwoods, and Co.
Solicitors—James' Valiance, Eiq., Messrs. Currie and Wood,
gate, A: H. Macdongall, Esq.
Bngineers—James Walker, Esq., F.R.S. L. and E., Alfred
Burgcs, Esq.
Secretaries—William Green, Esq..; Colin Smith, Esq.
Surveyor—George Smith, Esq.
The Kent Railway •will connect the Government Dockyards
and Garrisons, the populous towns and districts, and the princi-
•pal ports in the county of Kent, with the Metropolis.
The line selected by Mr. Welker, the engineer_ ie eonti-
nuation of-the- Greenwich Railway at Deptford, and will pass
through Greenwich, Woolwich, Erith, Dartford, Gravesend,
Rochester, Sittingbourne, Ospringe, Canterbury, Fordwich, and
upon the south side of the river Stour, .near Ash, where the line
divides into two parts, the one proceeding to Ramsgate by the
upper end-of Pegwell Bay, and the other via Sandwich and Deal
to Dover, the terminus being in the town close to the sea.
The distances to all the towns, except Dover, aro nearly the
same as by the Turnpike-road, viz.:—
From London Bridge to Woolwich 7 miles.
To Gravesend 2l miles.
I:, Rochester 291
ToCanterbury 57 miles..
Tq Ramsgate 73 miles.
TO Sandwich 702 miles.
To Deal 75 miles.
To Dover B3 miles.
The features of the line are peculiarly favourable, a length of
50 miles being nearly level; while, With the exception of three
furlongs at the junction with the Greenwich Railway, no gra-
dient will exceed one in 330, or 16 feet per mile.
All the deep cuttings and principal works, with a single ex-
ception, will be in chalk.
It is proposed to pass through Greenwich Park by a tunnel so
constructed as to admit of apertures at the side for light and
ventilation ; through Woolwich by bridges, and over the Med-
way by a viaduct. Boughton-hill will be avoided by a short
deep cutting or by a short tunnel of from a quarter to half a
Mile long at Selling, and near Ramsgate will be a deep cutting
or a tunnel not more than 400 yards in length, thus the whole
extent of tunnelling is not likely to exceed a mile or a mile and
a half, divided into three or four short tunnels at different parts
of the line.
In this description of the projected line will be recognial_l
that can give it value as an investment, and importance d sedensas
le
truly national work. Running through a cultivated an
neopled country, embracing in its course the GoverniuneenstsD,
ee,ncka
'Y
Wards :and Garrisons at Woolwich, Chatham, S
Deal, and affording communication between the Ahl ee ter' olis. the
p ree, the ob-
jectsode rts, op
the Kent
towns before enumerated, and the continental
Railway will be found g
It remains for
the Directors only to state, that the capital being
.provided by
to blend, in no ordinary
of public utility and private convenience
the arrangement under which the.property and interest of the
late Gravesend and Dover Companies have been transferred to
.the Kent, they are prepared to appr.bach Parliament in the
in_ every. respect the
ensuing session with a case. presenting
strongest claims to legislative protection and support.
Copies of this Prospectus, with Plan of the line attached, may
he obtained of Mr., THOMAS HARRIS, 7, Exchange-street
East; Mr. RICHARD DAWSON, 10, Exchat3ge,alley, Li-
verpool; and at the Company's Offi
Gcee,.R 7
E 6,.
NCoruhill, Loudon.
W. E,
C. SMITH, Secretaries.
Kent Railway-office, 76, Cornhfll, Nor. 1.

LONDON to DOVER, via
Dartford, Grave Send, Stroud,
I urne, Faversham, Canterbury,
,amsgate.
),000 SiiatiEs or £5O EACH.
per Skre.
DIRMTORS.
Charles Perkins, Esq.
Thomas. Phillpotts, Esq.
Rowand Ronald, Esq.
Georgeltobertßowe,Esq.M.D.
Lieut.-Col. Skerret
Henry Short, Esq.
John Rodway Stuck, Esq.
John Twells, Esq.
George Walter, Esq.
John Yates, Esq.