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

GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION

RAILWAY.
CAPIT4L, Z-600.00(1, IN 12,000 SHARES OF £5O
EACH; DEPOSIT, £2 15s. PER SHARE.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Yarborough.
Lord Worsley, M.P. for Lincolnshire, and Chairman of
the Grimsby Haven Company.
The Mayor of Grimsby.
Edward ileneage, Esq., M.P. for Grimsby.

John Parker, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Sheffield and
Manchester Railway Company.
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester. Directors of the
Michael Ellison, Esq., Sheffield. Sheffield and
Joseph St. John Yates, Esq.., Man- Manchester
chester. Railway.
Sir John Nelthorce, Bart., Scawhy Hall, Lincolnshire.
Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., Barton, Lincolnshire.

John Angerstein, Esq., Wectine: Hall, Brandon, Suffolk.
Ayscough'Boucherett, Esq., Willingham. Lincolnshire.
J. G. Corbett, Esq., Elsham, Lincolnshire.
G. 'F. tieneage, Esq., Hainton, Lincolnshire.

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fießev. C. J. Barnard, Bigbv, Lincolnshire.
Alfred Arthur Wallace, Esq., Healing, Grimsby.
Richard Thorold. Esq., Weelsby, near Grimsby.
W. Field, Esq., Ulceby Grange, Lincolnshire.
George Skipworth, Esq., Moortown Hill, Lincolnshire.
G. 'll. Vernon, Esq., M.P., The Grove, near")
Retford.
T. A. Ward, Esq., Townßcgent of Sheffield. Directors
Junes Dixon, Esq., Page 'Hall, Sheffield. 1 of the
Mr. Alderman Woodcroft, Bennett Grange, I Sheffield &
Sheffield. Lincoln-
G. C. Roland, Esq., M Sheffield. I shire
Wm. Frederic Dixon, .Esq., Birley House, Junction
Sheffield. I Railway.
James Wall, Esq., Attercliffe, Sheffield.
Abraham Howe, Esq., Broadfield, Sheffield.)
George Walker, Esq.-0-gathorpe, Sheffield.
'Colonel Dalton, Sleningford Park.
With power to add to their number.
'ENGINEER.
John Fowler,%sq., Mem. Inst. C.E.
LEANKERS.

The Sheffield and Retford Bank, Sheffield.and Retford.
Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., Grimsby, Lincoln,
Gainsborough, Brieg, Caistor, and Market Rasen.
The Union Bank of Manchester, Manchester.
The Royal Bank, Liverpool.
The London and Westminster Bank, London.

SECRETARY.
Lieut.-Col. Humfrey, P.R. A.S.
PARLIA4TENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Haywood, Bromley, and Gainsford, and Messrs.
Smith and Hinde, Sheffield.
LOCAL AGENTS.

Mr. George Babb, Great Grimsby.
Messrs. Marris and Smith, Caistor.

Mr. Thomas Rhodes, Market Rasen.

Messrs. Nicholson, Hett, and Freet,7Gllanford Brigg.
PHIS Railway, by continuing the Sheffield and Lin-
colnshire Line from Gainsborough to Great Grimsby,
will complete, from Sea to Sea, from Liverpool on the
Western, to Grimsby on the Eastern Coast, that direct
East and West main trunk Line, which the Liverpool
and Manchester, the Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railways, extend
eastward as far as Gainsborough, and will furnish to most
important Manufacturing and Agricultural Districts, the
double advantage of rapid communication with each other,
and easy access to a near, cheap, and safe Port on the
Eastern Coast.
An Arrangement has been entered into, of the most
satisfactory cbaracter, withthe Grimsby Haven Company,
by which they undertake to apply for extended powers in
the next Session of Parliament, to improve the Dock
accommodation at Great Grimsby, so as to make it very
complete, and capable of receiving first-class Steamers
and other large Vessels engaged in the Continental and
Foreign. trade ; and the convenience afforded by the pro-
posed extensive Wharfs, and the Railway and Dock to-
gether, for the export and import of goods, will be second
to none in the kingdom. Mr. Itswner., the eminent En-
gineer, is now occupied, on behalf of the Grimsby Haven
Corn pany,in completing their part of the above arrangment.
Great Grimsby being situated at the mouth of the
Humber, Vessels entering its Dock will save at least one
tide in time, and avoid the risk, cost, and delay of a dan-
gerous river navigation; the dues are considerably lower
than at Hull.; and, besides the shorter voyage and safer
and cheaper port, the distance inland by rail both to Shef•
field and to all the large Towns in the Midland Counties,
wil be less from Grimsby than from Hull. The imports
and exports, therefore, to and from these Towns, and also
a fair proportion of the Manchester Continental Trade,
may confidently be calculated to travel upon this line of
Railway.
To Passengers, the advantage wil! be still more re-
markable, as a person will ordinarily be able to land at
Grimsby, and reach Sheffield before he could have landed
at any other Port on the Humber.

This Railway, from the Port of Grimsby, by communi-
cating with the Southern Line to London, will also form
by far the quickest route for the Mails from Hamburgh
and the Baltic to London.

The rich and productive districts through which it
passes, guarantee to this Line a large traffic in Corn and
Agricultural Produce, both W estward towards the Manu-
facturing Consumer, and Eastward for Shipment Coast-
wise, whilst the present prices of Coal at Grimsby, and
throughout North Lincolnshire, ensure a return traffic
in Coals and Coke from the Yorkshire Coal Field to all
places on or near the line of Railway, and at the same
time an important saving in cost to the inhabitants.
_ _

Though forming a distinct and independent Company,
this Lire will have the active co-operation of the Directors
of the Sheffield and Manchester and Sheffield and Lincoln.
shire Junction Railways, to both of which, as well as to
the North and South Lines, it must act as a valuable
feeder; and as the most convenient and economical mode
of working the Line, power will be taken in the act to
lease it to the former Company, on terms to be mutually
agreed upon._

-This Railway has also the important advantage of the
cordial approval and support of the principal Landed
Proprietors through whose Estates it will pass.
The Line will be peculiarly favourable throughout for
cheap construction, and, from the excellence of its gra-
dients, will be capable of being worked at as low a cost
as any in the kingdom. The traffic now passing along and
near it is ascertained to yield a remunerative return upon
the capital required ; and this Railway, combined with
the improvement of the Port of Grimsby, must make the
whole length of rail from East to West of the most im
portant national character, and embrace an extent of
Traffic in the highest degree advantageous both to the
Proprietors in the present Company, and to those who
have invested in either of the above Lines.

Applications for Shares to be address d to the Souct-
TORS, or the SECRETARY, at Sheffield ; to any of the
LOCAL AGENTS ; or to the undermentioned Sharebrokers :
—Mes-rs. JOSHUA HUTCHINSON and SONS, Lothburv,
London ; Messrs. JOHNSTON and BRADLEY, and Mr. J.
B. LocuE, Manchester; and
Messrs. HENRY DAVIES and Co., Liverpool.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Great Grimsby and

Sheffi,ld Junction Railway.
I request that you will allot me Shares in the
proposed GREAT GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION
RAILWAY, on the terms mentioned in the Prospectus ;
and I agree to take alt such Shares, or so many thereof as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers'
Agreement, when required so to do.
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Proprietors of Shares in the Sheffield, Ashton•uuder.