The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.

REDUCTION OF FARES.

THE Public are respectfully informed, that on and
after SATURDAY, the 2d of November next, the fol-
lowlug will he the Passenger Fares between Liverpool and
Manchester :
First Class Fares..
Second Class
Thu? d Chess

. 6s. Od.
. 4s. Od.
.2s. Gd.

DAY TICKETS (not Transferable) to Manchester or
Liverpool and Bock on the same day Ten Shillings,
equalling each way Five Shillings, -
The l'ublic ate further informed that from and after
the same date there will be Two Third Class Trains per
Day, one in the Morning, and one in the Evening, from
each end of the iine.

The Times of Departure be published in bills of
the jay,.
The Directors feel that some explanation is due to the
Shareholders upon the announcement of so large an ad-
ditional measure of accommodation, and so important a
reduction of fares, within six months after the opening of
the Extension Line through Salford, upon which nearly
£250,000 have been expended, especially as the general
Scale of Fares on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
has never exceeded, and has generally been below that of
the principal railways in England, including those in im-
mediate connexion with this district.

The Directors are happy to be able to state that the
traffic accounts for the quarter just ended exhibit a very
gratifying increase over the corresponding quarter of last
Tear ; a result, in part to be attributed to the Extension
Railway latsly opened, forming a direct and continuous
line of communication with Yorkshire and the East Coast,
but in part, also, to the general revival of trade, which the
Directors trust will be steady and permanent, giving in-
creased activity to the internal truffic of the country.
This favourable state of things has encouraged the
Directors to adopt a more decided course than they would
otherwise have been justified in doing; and they cheer-
fully recognize the broad and general principle that the
public may fairly claim to participate, from time to time,
by means of increased accommodation or reduced rates,
in the continued success of the company. _ _

Moreover, they will not conceal (min' the Proprietors,
that in the present position of railway interests, with a
superabundance of unemployed capital and a speculative
spirit abroad, which, every day, conjures into shape and
promise new and rival projects, existing lines must he
prepared, even at some sacrifice, to supply the public with
ample accommodation, on the most reasonable terms, if
they wool I maintain the ground which they have heretofore
occupied—each in its own locality.
For this purpose the outlay of additional capital may
be required, the return for which can be expected only
from an increase of traffic, consequent cn the increased
prosperity of the country. But the Directors feel assured
that a deference to public opinion, exemplified by the
course of policy now recommended, will bust enable them
to maintain a safe position, and to defeht, if need be, the
attempts of rival and hostile undertakings.
By order,
HENRY BOOTH, Manager.
Liverpool, 14th October, 1814.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.

HOURS OF DEPARTURE.

THE Public are respectfully informed that the following
IL will he the HOURS of DEPARTURE from LI-
VERPOOL end MANCHESTER respectively, on and
after SATURDAY, the 2d November next :
FROM LIVERPOOL.
let Class Trains. I Mixed Trains. I 3d Class Trains.

8 45 A Ni.
12 0 NOON.
2 0 P.M.
4 0 „

6 30 A.M.
9.45 „
11 0 „
2 30 P.M.
5 30 „
*7 45 „
)M MANCIIEST:
I Mixed Trains.

6 30 A.M.

6 30 P.M.

*7 45 P.M.
FR(
Ist Class Trains.

3d Class Trains.

7 15 A.M.
9 0 A.M. 10 0 „
12 15 NOON. 11 15 „
2 0 P.M. 2 45 P.M.
5 0 „ 5 30 „
*8 20 F.M. *8 20 „
*Stopping at Iluyton Gate, Rainhill,
tion, Newton, Parkside, Kenyc
Bury-lane, and Patricrk
SUNDAYS.
FROM LIVERPOO
I Mixed Trains.

6 30 A.M.

6 30 P. A!.

St. Helen's Junc-
)n Junction,
oft.

Ist Class Trains.

3d Class Trains.

4 45 P.M.
*7 45 „

7 30 A.M.
5 M
*7 45
M MANCEIEST
Mixed Train:.

7 30 A.M.
5 30 P.M.

- - „
FR
Ist Class Trains.

3d Class Trains.

5 0 p.m. I
*8 20 ~ 1
*s'•o;

7 30 A.M.
5 30 P.M.
I *8 20 „
pping as on other d

7 30 A .M.
5 30 P.M.

Lys.
BY ORDER.

Liverpool, 24th

,ctobcr, 1841,

BIRKENHEAD, MANCHESTER, & CHESHIRE

JUNCTION RAILWAY.

CAPITAL. £1,000,000; SHARES. £5O EACH.
DEPOSIT, £5 PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P.
Alderman Thompson, Esq., M.P.
W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company.
William Jackson, Esq.„ Chairman of the Chester and

Birkenhead Railway Company.
Joseph Bailey, jun., Esq., M.P.
John Laird, Esq., 1 Directors of the Chester and
William Potter, Esq., Birkenhead Railway
William Laird, Esq., Company.
Robert Barbour, Esq., }Manchester.
Robert Gardner, Esq.,
David Harrison, Esq.,
J. Cheetham, Esq., }Staleybridge.
J. Leech, Esq.,
James Turner, Esq.,
Marcus F. Brownrige. Esq., Liverpool.
Augustus Radcliffe, Esq.,
Harold Littledale, Esq.,
Joseph Travis Clay, Esq., Huddersfield.
J. W. Harden, Esq., Rock Ferry, Cheshire.

ENGINEER.
James M. Rendel, Esq., F.R.S.
SOLICITOR.
Joseph Mallaby, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Halifax and Co., London.
Messrs. Brooke, Cunliffe, and Co., Manchester.
Union Bank, Liverpool.
Messrs. Dixons and Wardell, Chester.
THE SHARES in this Company having been alloted
and the arrangements completed for applying to Par-
liament in the next session, the Committee beg to an-
nounce the course which the Line will take.
The Railway will join the Chester and Birkenhead
Railway, by a branch near Bebbington, for the Birkenhead
traffic, and by a branch near Chester for the Shropshire,
Welsh, and Irish traffic. These branches will unite near
Elton, and the Line then be continued to Frodsham, and
Preston Brook, (where it will cross the Grand Junction
Railway and form a junction with it,) and thence to Man-
chester by way of Aitringham, from which Alice a branch
will be carried to Stockport.
At Manchester a Junction will be formed with the
Manch. ster and Leeds Railway.
After the most mature deliberation, the Committee have
determined upon the Plan thus indicated as the one most
practicable in details and most effective to accomplish the
great objects for which the Line was designed.
WM. JACKSON, Chairman to the Committee.
Company's Office, Birkenhead, 10th October. 1844.

The Right Hon. Lord Rendlesham,M.A.
Robert Ransome, Esq., Ipswich
Jams Allen Ransome, Esq., Ipswich
Wiliam Rodwell, Esq., Ipswich
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
T. O. Springfield, Esq., Norwich
Charles Steward, Esq.. Ipswich
Lawrence Squire, .Esq., Ipswich
John Tollemache, Esq., M.P.
The Hon. Arthur Thelusson
Abele Tcwler, Esq , Ncrwich
Thomas Hutton, Esq., Brome
Edward Willett, Esq.. Norwich
John Wright, Esq., Norwich
William S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Few, Hamilton. and Feces, Covent Garden ;
Messrs. W. 0. and W. II not, 10, Whitehall ; and
Messrs. Staff, Steward, and Tillett, Norwich.

SECRETARY.
James F. Saunders,Esq.. Brook-street, Ipswich.
BANKERS.
Norwich MesSrs. Gurneys and Co.
Messrs. Ilarveys and Hudson.
„ East of England Bank.
Ipswich
Messrs. Bacon and Co.
19
Hull..
Huddersfield }The Union Bank of Hudersfield.
Halifax
Stow market
Diss.. Messrs. Dyson and Co.
t,
London. Messrs. Glynn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co.

BY this undertaking it is proposed to establish a direct
-1-1 P Railway communication between the city of Norwich
(the metropolis of the eastern district of England and the
town and port of Ipswich, at which place it will) join the
Railway to London.
The Line will pass through the towns of Diss and
Stowmarket, and through or near Long Stratton, Eye,
and Mendlesham, and Needham Market and the adjacent
populous districts, and will be in near communication
with the towns of Harleston, Bungay, and Beccles, and
the River Wavenhey, to which places an extension may
be advantageously m,de. It also combines the advantage
of a direct communication with the port of Yarmouth.
Very considerable commerce and intercourse has
always subsisted between Norwich, Diss, and Ipswich,
which this project will greatly facilitate and increase.
This Line will be an extension of the Eastern Union
Railway, and will, by means of the Eastern Counties
Railway frees Colchester, give the city of Norwich and
an extensive and thickly populated country a direct com-
munication with London, fourteen miles shorter than by
the Norwich and Brander' and Northern and Eastern
lines.
The proposed Railway is strictly identified with the
agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing interests of
the entire district, and, whilst it uffords the greatest con-
venience to the public, it offers to the Shareholders a
prospect of a very ample return on the capital embarked.
The Line has been surveyed by Mr. Locke, who has
reported, that the character of the country to be traversed
will render the Line easy of construction, and, as the gra-
dients are favourable, it will be an economical Line to
work.

A careful estimate of the present traffic between Ips-
wich and Norwich has been made, which, after allowing
40 per cent. for the expenses of working the Line, shows
a return of upwards of 7 per celt. on the capital re-
quired.
The Map annexed to this Prospectus indicates the
course of the intended Line and shows the population of
the principal towns which will be eccammodated by the
undertaking.
The capital proposed to be raised, £650,000, will enable
the Company to complete a double Line from the termi-
nus of the Eastern Union Railway, at Ipswich, to Nor-
wich, a distance of forty-five miles : part of this Line
will have the advantage of participating in a double traffic
from being connected, net only with the Line to Nor-
wich, but with a Line now projected, branching from this
undertaking at a uoint about fourteen miles north of Ips-
wich to Cambridge, through Bury St. Edmonds, as
shown on the map.
Norwich as well as Cambridge (and, eventually, by
other connecting Railroads, the whole of the manufactur-
ing districts) will thus be in direct c )mmunieation, at
Ipswich, with the line of steamers proposed to be esta
blished from Harwich harbour to Hatribureh, Rotterdam,
Antwerp, and Ostend ; will be within ten hours of the
last-named place ; and, according to the statement lately
published by the proposed European Steam-packet Corn-
pany, within twenty-four hours of Hamburgh.
The usual powers will be taken in the act to allow in-
terest at four per cent. on the amount of subscriptions
paid up.
Applications for Shares may be addressed to Messrs.
FORSYTH and PR ITCHARD, Liverpool; and J. B.
LOCKE, Esq., and JOHN BARLOW, Esq., Manchester, of
whom Prospectuses may be obtained.