The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

ST. HELEN'S & SOUTHPORT, WIGAN, RAIN-
FORD, AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY.
THE Public are respectfully informed that arrangements
have been made with the Liverpool and Manchester
and North Union Rail av Companies to CONSTRUCT
a LINE of RAILWAY, with the I, quisite Branches, to
accomplish the following important objects:—
First To bring the extensive Coal Districts to the west
of Wigan, comprising the Coal Fields of Winstanley, Bil-
linge, Rainford, and Kirkby, into a}:heap and easy com-
munication with Liverpool, via he Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway.
Second: To effect ash er and more direct communi-
cation between Liverpo and the North, by the proposed
new Line, to Wiga
And Third: B a Railway from St. Helen's, through
the Coalfields of Bickerstaff and Latham, to join the
Euston and Southport Railway at a place west of Rufford;
thereby affording to the Town of Ormskirk a good railway
communication with Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, and
other places already connected by existing railways, be-
sides completing a railway communication between Man-
chester, Stockport, and the Manufacturing Districts as
well as between Wolverhampton, Birmingham and the
great Iron Districts, and the agreeable Watering-place of
SOUTHPORT.

The peculiaradvantage of the proposed scheme of Rail-
way is, that it will afford, at a comparatively small outlay,
(by making u-e of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
and by arrangements with St. Helen's Railway,) the
valuable option of several distinct modes of outlet for the
produce of Ike great Coal Field which it is proposed to
intersect, naine!y:

Find.; By the Liverpool and Manchester Line, to effect
a direct railway communication with those towns.
Second:: By the St. Helen's and Runcorn-gap Railway,
to obtain a short and direct communication with the river
Mersey, either for export to Ireland, for the supply of the
Salt-works in Cheshire, or for the Steam-vessels which
now-sail from the river Mersey to all parts-of the world.

And Third : In addition to a new railway 'communica-
tion from Edge-hill to the north end of the town, which
the 'Liverpool and Manchester Company have in contem-
'Action, and will be prepared to execute as soon as the
trade of the port shall require increased accommodation,
a•connexion will alko be formed with the Leeds and Liver-
pool Canal, which the proposed Line will -cross between
Ormskirk and Bo fford, by which a water conveyance to
the-north end of Liverpool will be effected.
By the proposed scheme, while ample facilities will be
afforded to the Proprietor to bring his Mineral Products to
the general Market, existit g interests will be respected,
and that waste of the national capital be avoided, which
must be sustained where a million of money is expended
'to accomplish objects which by more judicious arrange.
•ments could be effected by a quarter of that sum.
To ensure the mast skilful, comprehensive, and at the
-same time economical system of ,Liees and of Working, of
which the district is capable, the Promoters are-happy to
announce that they have engaged the services of George
Stephenson, Esq., who has consented to act as Principal
Engineer for the setting out and construction of-the Line,
—in regard to which the interests of the Landed Proprie-
-turs Of the country proposed to be traversed will as far as
possible be consulted.

Fu, Cher particulars, with the names of the Provisional
Committee, will shortly be published.

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CLAY and SWIFT.
Liverpool, 7th October, 1841.