The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

GAINSBOROUGH, SHEFFIELD, AND CHES-
TERFIELD RAILWAY.
SHORT AND DIRECT LINE.
CAPITAL, £750,000, IN 15,000 SHARES OF £5O
EACH.
DEPOSIT, £3 PER SHARE.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Wm. Jno. Bagehawe, Esq., The Oaks, Sheffield.
Wilson Overend, Esq.. Sheffield.
Benj. Burdekin, Esq., Sheffield.
Richard Bayley, Esq., Castle Dyke, Sheffield.
Thomas Creswick, Esq., Ecclesall Grange, Sheffield.
Henry Wilson, Esq., Westbrook, Sheffield.
Henry Houlds,orth, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway Company.
William Entwisle, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman of the
Manchester and Leads Railway Company, and a Di-
rector of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway
Company.
Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, a Di-
rector of the Manchester and Leeds, and of the
Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway Companies.
Leo Schuester, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and
Leeds, and of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway Companies.
Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall Hall, Lancashire.
Thomas Clark, Esq., Mayor of Chesterfield.
Edward Humble, Esq., Renishaw, Derbyshire.
Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endcliffe, Sheffield.
Thomas Ellin, jun., Esq., Sheffield.
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe. Hall, Sheffield.
Robert Younge, Esq., Greystones, Sheffield.
Roger Haywood, Esq., Hooton Levet, Maltby.
Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braith well Manor House,Yorkshire.
Thomas Didsbury, Esq., Rotherham.
Charles Frederick Younge, Esq., Sheffield.
Henry Jubb, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield.
John Sansom, Esq., Moor Lodge, Sheffield.
John Green, Esq., Ntepsend, Sheffield.
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield.
Richard Ellison, Esq., Sudhrooke Holme, Lincoln,
Chairman of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway.
The Rev. H. W. Sibthorpe, Washingborough;
Lincoln,
Edward Fowler. Esq., Lincoln,
T. M. Kevworth, Esq., Lincoln,
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln,
Col. Clacroft, Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln,
Weston Craeroft, Esq., 11 ackthorn, Lincoln,.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
William Cubit, Etq., F.R.S.
BANKERS.
.
Company ; the Sheffield and Retford
Bank.
Gainsborough
'Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co
Lincoln ....
Chesterfield The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking
Company.
Boston Messrs. Gee and Co.
Bawtry The Yorkshire Banking Company.
Manchester Messrs. Curliffe. Brookes, and Co.
London .. Messrs. Cunliffe, Brookes, and Co. ;
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ; the
London and Westminster Bank.
THE object of this undertaking is. to construct the most
direct and perfect LINE OF RAILWAY from the
Town and Port of GAINSBOROUGH, through SHEF-
FIELD, to the Station of the Midland Railway at
CHESTERFIELD, thereby effecting a more expeditious
and economical communication between Gainsborough,
Sheffield, and the Midland Counties on the one hand, and
between Sheffield and the Aletropolis on the other ' • and,
also, to bring into immediate contact the whole of Lin-
colnshire and the Eastern Counties, with the important
Manufacturing and Mineral Districts of Sheffield, Dron-
field, and Unstone.
For detailed Prospectus see LIVERPOOL STANDARD of
Septemher 3 and 10.
The Line will unite with the projected Wakefield, Lin-
coln, and Boston Railway, now merged in the London and
York, constituting, in conjunction with that Line, the
best and most comprehensive system of Railway commu-
nication between the Agricultural Districts of Lincoln-
shire and the Eastern Counties, and the populous Manu-
facturing Towns of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
From acareful estimate of traffic on data accurately taken,
the Promoters feel themselves fully warranted in stating
that a profit of at least XS per Cent. will be realised on
the proposed Capital, after allowing £lO per Cent. for
working expenses.
Applications for Prospectuses, with Maps, or other in-
formation, and for Sharcs, (in the annexed Form) are
requested to be made to Messrs. WILSON, YOUNGE, and
PIERSON, or Mr. DixoN, Solicitors, Sheffield ; or to the
following Sharebrokers :-.—Mr. Duncuff, Manchester ;
Messrs. H. and G. Towgood, 33, Throgmorton-street,
London; Messrs. WILLIAM REYNOLDS and SONS, and
Mr. JORN HALL, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beard.
shaw, Leeds •, Messrs. Moore and Gatliffe, Huddersfield ;
Mr. James Harvey, Halifax ; Messrs. Beaumont, Kenne-
dy, and Binks, Bradford and Leeds ; to Messrs. Collinson
and Flint, or Messrs. Trigg and Hodson. Hull ; Messrs.
Eat p and Son, Derby ; Mr. James Pearson, or Mr. Lane,
Birmingham.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
I request you will secure to me Shares
in the Gainsborough, Sheffield. and Chesterfield Railway,
upon the Terms of the Prospectus. And I agree to take
such Share: as may be allotted to me, and to pay the De-
posits upon the same, and execute the Parliamentary Con-
tract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated 1844.

Directors
of the
Wake-
• field,
Lincoln,
& Boston
Railway.

Sheffield

Residence.
Trade or Profession.
To the Provisional Committee of the Gainsborough,
Sheffield, and Chesterfield Railway.