The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

WELSH MIDLAND RAILWAY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Engineers
1.11 of the above Company have been instructed and are
now engaged on a Survey of the Country between Leo-
minster and Kidderminster, and between Kidderminster
and Birmingham, with the view of affecting a direct
communication between the Mineral Districts of South
Wales and the Manufacturing Towns of the Midland and
Northern Counties, that portion of the line between
Leominster and Kidderminster being already fully deter-
mined on, and it being the intention of the Welsh Midland
Company to carry out the continuation from Kiddermin-
ster to Birmingham in case no simile Line of Railway
which will equally serve their es shall be projected
by some other Company acting in connection and co-ope-
ration with them.
Dated this 30th day of July, 1845.
BARKER, ROSE, and NORTON,
36, Great George-street,
Solicitors to the Company.

LIVERPOOL, Pill STO AND NORTH
UNION JUNCTION RAILWAY,

WITH
BRANCHES TO SOUTHPORT & WIGAN

[PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.]

CAPITAL £350,000, in 17,500 SHARES of £2O
EACH. DEPOSIT £1 7s. 6d. PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
Col. Rawstorne, Penwortham Priory, Lancashire.
W. Taylor, Esq., Preston, Director-nrihe Preston and
Wyre, and the Fleetwood, I;refton, and West. Riding
Junction Railways.
W. Rubinson, Lipt6"aster, Director of the North
Western, and Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction
Railways.
James Thomas Bourne,

sq., Liverpool and Newsham

Hall. Lancashire.
John Dewhurst, Esq., Preston, a Director of the Preston

and Wyr' Railway.
Samuel Perrott, Esq., Liverpool.
Thomas Morris, E,q., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan, and
Brunswick Villa, Southport, Director of the Blackburn,

(Thorley, and Nurth Union Junction Railway.
Thomas German Esq., theChire,Preston, Director of the

Fleetwood, Presto4and West it iding Junction Rai►way.
William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham

District Railway.
W. T. Cox, Esq , Sponden, Derbyshire, Director of the
Derby and Crewe, and Tean and Dove Valley, and

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Eastern and Western Juncticm Railways.
Samuel Walker Cux, Esq , Bransdale Lodge, Derbyshire,
Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and Birkenhead
and Holyhead Jur-1(.00n Railways.
R. G. FeHowe, Esq., Houle, Preston.
James Duncan, Esq , Liverpool, Director of the Birken-
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head and Holyhead Junction Railway.
Oliver Anderson, Esq., Q.C., Lincoln's Inn, London.
Robert Fisher, Esq ,_Highbury Park, near London, Di

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rector of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway.
Captain Fisher, junior, United Service Club and Regent's
Park, London, Director I,f the Manchester and

mingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway.
George Holt, Esq., Crumpsall, Manchester.
John Holford, Esq., Rusholme Hall, Manchester.
Frederick Ramsdell, Esq , Seymour tiousia,OldTrafford

Manchester.
Richard Atkinson, Esq., Cockerham Hall, Lancaster.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEFIRS.
Messrs. Gandell and Brunton.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and uoats,

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Brabner and Liverpool

Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood

King's Bench Walk,

Temple, London. -
LOCAL SOLIC ITOR S •
Mr. Wareing, Ormskirk I Mr. Cunliffe, Preston
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths.
Liverpool—The Royal Bank of Liverpool.
Preston—Messrs. Pedder, Fleetwood, and Pedder.

T is admitted that a more direct Line of comnannication
I between Liverpool and Preston and the North is much
wanted, and that it is eesirable there should be a Railway
communication from Manchester to Southport, this Com-
pany is therefore formed fort e purpose of accomplishing
these objects, which it. proposes to do at less cost than any
other Line as yet before the public, and without inter-
fering to the same extent with the interests of existirg

Companies.
It is intended to commence the main Line at a point
en the Liverpool and Bury Line, now before Parliament,
at or near the village of Kirkby, which is distant about
six miles from the Liverpool terminus; proceeding north-
ward, it passes east of Waddicar and Melling-cum-Cons-
cough, thence in a direct line to ORNISKIItK, running
to the east of 11d.os End,,croising the Leeds and Liverpool
Canal, at or near Glover's Bridge, leaving Raiford to the
north, and thence proceeds to 14.1ccleston, and 'crossing the
river Yarrow, runs into the North Union Railway, at the
Junction of the Bolton .and Preston Railway near

Buxton Station.
The distance from :Kirkby ,to the Junction of the Bolton
and Preston Line with the North Union Railway-is about
In miles, and that length of Line will only be required
to effect, in connection with the Liverpool and Bury and
North Union Lines, a direct Line from Liverpool to
Preston, the entire distance:being 29 miles, which will be
traversed in one hour at•the most.
It is also proposod,to.connectSouthport, with Oimskirk,
Wigan, Bolton, Manchester, and other populous.clistricts,
by making Branches from the main Line at .oroaskirk,
passing south of Scaribbrick Tank to Southport, and east-
wardly, towards Skelmersdale, meeting the proposed
Branch of the Liverpool and Bury Line at a convenient
point near Blagitegate Collieries.
The Passenger Traffic between the localities connected
Ey this Line of Railway is at present very, considerable,
and will be much increased when the Lines in the course
of construction and those proposed form an unbroken
Railway communication between Liverpool, Preston, Lan-
caster, Carlisle, Newcastle, .Glasgow, Edinburgh, and the
whole Of the North of Great Britain.

41 conjunction with the Preston and Wyre Railway to
Fleetwood, this proposed Line will form a anode of ,con-
veyance for Passengers and Goods to Belfast and the
North of Ireland. _ . . .

The facility of communication which this Line affordsto
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the t::lllahie Coal fields a Bickerstaffe, Lathatn, and the
rest of this important Coal district, insures to the proprie-

tors the most important advantages

Thine are no difficult or expensive Engineering Works
on the Line. thus rendering it all but certain that the esti-
mate of .1:350,C0'J is amply sufficient, which, when com-
pared with some of the projects now before the public,
shows a very considerable saving in the cost of obtaining a
DIRECT communication.
The Branches to Southport and Wigan will afford
mutual advantages, as they offer easy access to the de-
lightful andsnuch-frequented watering place of Southport,
and a very great increase on the present traffic may fairly
be calculated upon.
The estimate of revenue, based upon the existing
traffic, shows a good return for the capital invested.
Means will be taken to obtain an Act of Parliament in
the ensuitig Session, with the customary clauses for
restricting the liability of each Shareholder, and it is pro-
posed to allow 4 per tent. interest on the paid-up capital.
A number of Shares in this Line will be reserved for
the Shareholders of Lines immediately connected with it.

Applications for Shares may be made in the form below,
to the Solicitors for the Company, to Mr. BURDETT,
Solicitor, Marsden-street, Manchester, or to any of the
following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. NEILSON, Liverpool;
Messrs. FLETCHER and SHARP, Liverpool; Mr. W.
G. SEED, Spring Gardens, Manchester; Mr. THOMAS
WREN, Preston; and Mr. HANnuaY, 4, Angel Court,
Throgmorton-street, London.