The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-27 00:00:00

BLACKBURN AND PRESTON RAILWAY

THE PROPOSED LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK,
AND PRESTON RAILWAY.
THE Public are respectfully informed, that at a
MEETING of the Directors and Provisional Com-

mittee of the above-named undertakings, held at Black-
burn, on the 17th day of May.; 1845, an arrangement has
been entered into by which the'respective parties pledge
themselves to use every effort for obtaining, in the next
Session of Parliament, the sanction of the Legislature for
the construction of the Liverpool, mskirk, and Preston
Railway, with its Branches.
NEVILLE an NSWORTH, Solicitors,
Black n and Preston Company.
LLOYD and WALN Solicitors,
Proposed Liverpool, Ormskirk, & Preston Railway.
Blackburn, 17th May, 1845.

LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK,
RAILWAY

AND PRESTON

THE Provisional Committee beg to inform the Share-
holders that they are prevented from proceeding for
an Act of Parliament in the present Session, by the late
decision of the Select Committee on the Standing Orders
of the House of Commons: but as this obstacle to their
immediate progress has been caused by trivial acts of non-
compliance with standing orders, in no way diminishing
or affecting the real merits of the project, (which, as yet,
have not been submitted to any parl'Eunentary inquiry.)
the Provisional Committee h etermined to
m„g.seepte,„,
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every available means duri the present sec-'
tect the interests of the areholders, to maintain pos
session of the advant s e already obtained, and to preparefor an Application ran Act in next session of parliament
By order of the Committee,
JAMES J. GRAHAM, Secretary
, .
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway-office,
No. 6, Lord-street, Liverpool, 24th May, 1845

ion to pro

LIVERPOOL, ORMSKI K,
RAILWAY,

AND PRESTON

A T a numerous and respectablip MEETING of th
INHABITANTS of ORMSKIRK, on MONDAY
the 19th May, 1815, convened by the Constable, in corn ,•

pliance with

Requisition, the following Petition to
lianaent was unanimously agreed to :
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingd
of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament
The humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants oj
the Town of Ormskirk and it;s7einity,in the County
of Lancaster.

assemblec

SHOWETH,

That the population of/fhe Town of Ormskirk now
numbers near five thoysand ; that of the Parish fifteen
thousand ; and that 9f the Poor-law Union, of which the
said Town forms tke centre, forty thousand.
That the Tow is entirely cut off from all Railway com-
munication—the nearest point of any existing Railway
being thirteen miles distant.
That the Town of Ormskirk is situate on the- direct
•' .

I BIRKENHEAD AND HOLYHEAD JUNCTION
RAILWAY, WITH ITS BRANCHES.

Brovisionally registered pursuant to 7M and Bth 'Vic-
cap, 110.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
rr HE object of this undertaking is to provide a more
1 direct Railway communication for Birkenhead, Li-
verpool, and the Manufacturing Dis ictr. of Manchester
with Holyhead and North Wa .
The Main Line of this i way 'will coma
near the Docks now riming at Birkenbe
through a country p sessing great- facil
struction, and wil orm a
Holyhead Railwa
the town of Flint

It is proposed to_ make a B.

Main Line,to j
at or near Little Sutton
thus, by means of the

Cheshire Junction Railway , t
with Manchester and the M

Lancashire

for its con-

It is also contempt
nexion with the M

Chester and
at at or near

divergin

Wallasey-pool

,„ from the
d 13irkenhead Railway
f Chester, and

Birkenhead,' ;il-a.

Connected wits.,
of this Line of Railway are tF

vantages

At Dawpool it is