The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.

EDINBURGH AND NEWHAVEN RAILWAY
BRANCH LINES TO
WET DOCKS AT LEITH, AND TO
GRANTON PIER.

CAPITAL, £lOO,OOOO, IN SHARES OP £2O BACK

PROVISIONAL COMMITTERS.

The Directors of the Edinburgh and Newhaven Railway.

FOR EDINBURGH :
John Richardson, Esq., Senior Magistrate, Edinburgh.
John Urquhart, Esq., Magistrate, Edinburgh.
D. M'Farlan, M.D., Councillor, Edinburgh.
Henry Bails, Esq., Councillor, Edinburgh.
J. G. Thomson, Esq., Treasurer, Edinburgh.
Thomas Greig, Esq., Vlaster of the Merchant Company,
Edinburgh.
Archibald Thomson, Esq., Chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce, Edinburgh.
Richard Hunter, Esq., Edinburgh.

FOR LEITH :
James Reoch, Esq., Provost of Leith.
William Muir, Esq., Councillor, and Merchant, Leith.
John Smith, Esq., Master of the Trinity House, Leith.
Robert Laurie, Esq., Master of the Merchant Company,
Leith.
Robert Mowbray, Esq., Chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce, Leith.
George Berry, Esq., Deputy-Chairman Ditto, Leith.
James Duncan, Esq., Merchant, Leith.
John Raitnes, Esq., Merchant, Leith.
William Moodie, Esq., Merchant, Leith.

THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY
COMPANY having now determined to extend their
Line to the North Bridge, and a company being in course
of formation from that point to Berwick-on-Tweed, both
of which Lines will thus be connected with the Edinburgh,
Leith, and Newhaven Railway, it has been resolved to
carry on the branches to Leith and Granton Pier. The
Main Line of this Railway, from Scotland-street to
Trinity, has been completed and in successful operation
all this season. The Drift-way through the Tunnel, by
means of which it will be carried into the centre of the
ci'y, is nearly finished, and the Tunnel itself may be coma-
pleted within 18 months.
The Branch to Leith secures the great trade of that
port. More than 40.000 tons of Goods pass yearly be-
tween Edinburgh and Glasgow, by way of the Railway and
the two Canals ; and upwards of 200,000 tons, exclusive
of coals, between Edinburgh and Leith, which the greatly
reduced cost of carriage, as compared with the rates of
cartage, insures to the Railway.
The number of passengers between Edinburgh and
Leith, by coach, exceeds 400,000 yearly.
The passenger-traffic between Edinburgh Granton,
and Newhaven, also exceeds 400,000, and the Newhaven
Railway is besides conveying at the rate of 150,000
yearly.
In consequence of the extension of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway, its junction with this Line, and the
reduced cost of carriage, all Goods coming from, and to,
the West of Scotland, will unquestionably pass along this
Rilway and Branches. The necessary consequence will
be a large increase of traffic, particularly in Iron and Coals
in the Leith export trade; and Leith would add at least
50,000 tons yearly to this trade in these branches alone.

The length of the branch to Leith is 11 mile, and the
estimated cost is £43,441 ; the Branch to Granton would
be one mile long, and the estimated cost is £49,470,—
and after allowing for expenses of Bill and all other con-
tincencies, the new capital required may be stated at
£lOO,OOO.

In estimating the amount of revenue, the average re-
turn from the carriage of goods, along the whole line is
assumed at Is. per ton, and the average of passengers at
4d. each, and the anticipated revenue may then be stated
thus:--

PASSENGERS.
1. Passengers on the main Line to Trinity,
150,000 yearly .
2. Granton and Newhaven Steam-boat pas-
sengers, 400,000 yearly
3. Leith Coach and Carriage passengers,
400,000 yearly, but assume only one-half 3,333

£12,499
Add for anticipated increase, only one-third. 4,166

Total for passengers
GOODS.
1. Between Edinburgh and Leith, 200,000
tons of Goods yearly ; assume only one-
fourth
2. Between Leith and Granton and Glasgow,
(upwards of) 40,000 ...
3. Anticipated increase between Glasgow and
the mineral districts in the west, and Leith,
50,000 tons

£16,665

£23,665

Deduct one-third for working and manage-
ment........

Free revenue .. ....£15,777
Or 74 per cent, on the Capital.
Applications for Shares may be made at the Company's
Office, 35, Scotland-street, Edinburgh ; to RICHARD
DAwsoN, Esq., 10, Exchange-alley, Liverpool Mr. A.
Ross, 27, Tokenhouse Yard, London ' • Messrs. SELDOM(
and IIoyLAND, Manchester; Messrs. MERCER, STEVEN-
SON and Co., Glasgow ; or to the Stock and Share Rio-
kers in town, from all of whom copies of the detailed
Prospectus may be obtained.
914 October. 180.

AT a MEETING within the Council Chambers, Leith,
of the PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE of the
BRANCH LINE of the EDINBURGH and NEW-
HAVEN RAILWAY to LEITH and GRANTON, on
the 9th day of October, /843,
THE HONOURABLE THE PROVOST in the Chair,
The following resolution was moved by ROBERT Mow.
BRAY, Esq., Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce,
seconded by ROBERT LAURIE, Esq., Master of the Mer-
chant Company, and thereafter carried unanimously,
" That this meeting having met and conferred with the
Directors of the Edinburgh and Newhaven Railway, re-
gard with feelings of great gratification the renewed pro-
posal of these Directors to extend a Branch Line to Leith ,•
believing, as they do, that the connection so to be afforded
by an unbroken chain of Railway to Edinburgh and Glas-
gow will be productive of uncalculable benefit to the trade
and prosperity of Leith, for the reasons and in the manner
detailed in the Prospectus of the Branch Lines which has
been issued ;—Recommend that Meetings of the different
Public Bodies in Leith should be immediately held to
take al. matter into consideration ; and earnestly advise
their fellow-citizens to give all the support and counten-
ance to the undertaking in their power."

JAMES REOCH