The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

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through them, and to afford a good return for the capital
required for the purpose.
Commencing at CHELMSFORD, (at the Station of the
Eastern Counties Railway,) this L'ne will pass close by
Braintree, Backing, Halstead, Sudbury, and Lavenbam,
to BURY, running, throughout its whole extent of 39 miles,
nearly conterminous with the ancient and most frequented
highway from the Metropolis into the heart of Suffolk.
It will have, fur its termini, two important Market and
Assize Towns ; and for its principal intermediate Stations ,
places which are the seats of considerable and thriving
manufactures.

The towns of Bury and Sudbury are the two largest in
the county of Suffolk, next to Ipswich ; and Halstead and
Braintree the two largest in Essex, next to Chelmsford
and Colchester.
The population of the Hundreds which will be directly
intersected by it amounts to 133,131, and that of numer-
ous places to which it would be more available than any
other Railway, to 43,500, making the total population
which may be reckoned upon, as necessarily tributary
from local vicinage to this Line, not less than 176,631.
Between the Metropolis and all the places which have
been named, as well as between these places themselves,
there is a large existing traffic, to which the facilities of
the Railway system could not fail to give, as in all other
cases, a vast extension.

The Chelmer and Stour Navigations, through which the
districts traversed by this Line now receive their supplies
of coal, lime, timber, iron, &c., and which are also the
principal outlets for its agricultural produce, will not only
have their own operations greatly facilitated, and their
revenues increased by its formation, but contribute con-
siderably to the income of the Railway. They would be
feeders, but in no respects rivals to it.
But, besides the above local traffic, the Line would
command a very considerable through traffic between
London and all the Northern parts of Norfolk. From
time immemorial more than one-third of all the coach
traffic between London and Norwich has passed over the
line of road with which this Railway would be conter-
minous.

An extension of the line to Thetford, and also a Branch
from Braintree to Maldon, by the way of Witham, have
been surveyed, and will form part of the scheme, if re-
quired by the Board of Trade.
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experience would warrant, the total returns from the pro-
jected Railway would amount to £1.05,405.
The Line selected for the Railway is the result of an
engineering survey, on which much time and pains have
been expended, and will, it is confidently believed, be
found to be not only the very best of which the nature of
the country admits, but one admirably adapted to meet
the wants of its traffic. It will be a Line at once cheaply
made and cheaply worked. The gradients are easy, and
well balanced ; the earth-work will be less than the aver-
age earth-work on Railways; and there will be no con-
structions of much difficulty or magnitude. The land
required for the line will he mostly farm-land, of moderate
value, and in no place will it pass through any parks or
ornamental grounds.
Deducting 40 per cent. from the gross returns for the
expense of working the Line, (a liberal allowance for a
Line of this character,) it would leave a net annual reve-
nue of £63,243, which would be equal to 8 per cent. on
the invested Capital.
Power will be reserved in the Act to allow 4 per Cent.
Interest on Deposits until the completion of the Line.
Applications for Shares, in the annexedmay be
made to any of the Solicitors or Local Agents above
named ; or to L. M. SIMON, Esq., Broker, Warnford-
court, Throgrnorton-street, London ; or to
THOMAS FORSYTH, Esq., Broker, Liverpool.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
TO THE PROVISIOVAL COMMITTEE OF THE
CHELMSFORD AND BURY RAILWAY
COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN,
Please allot me Shares in the above
Company, and I hereby undertake to accept such Shares,
and to pay the Deposit thereon, and also to execute the
Parliamentary Contract, and Subscribers' Agreement,
when required.
Dated this day of
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,

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