The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-04 00:00:00

BANKERS

London: Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-
lane ; Gloucester, The Gloucestershire Banking Com-
pany; Tewkesbury, Sir Anthony Lechmere and Co.

SECRETARY.—Henry Brookes, esq

The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the
London and Birmingham railway, tb terminus of the
" Midland Counties" and " Trent Valley" railways, and
the point to which several other projected railways con-
verge, and will proceed thron,,li or near to Leamington,
Warwick, Stratford-on-Aton, Eveshaal, Tewkesbury,
and Cheltenham to Glouc ster. The I,n,gth of the line
will be abaut fifty-six miles.
The advantages that will result from the construction
of this line are numerous and highly important, and such
as cannot fail to secure a very large amount of local and
through traffic, and a highly remunerative return upon
the capital invested. By means of existing and proposed
railways, it will form a complete chain of railway com-
munication between the whole of the Midland and North-
eastern counties of England, the populous cities and
towns before named, and the Southern and Western dis-
tricts; and thus bring Leicester, Nottingham, Newark,
Lincoln, Gainsborougb, Great Grimsby, and [lull into
direct communication with the favourite and fashionable
spas of Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly produc-
tive and far famed Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of
Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth, and Falmouth, and those
of South Wales.
The inhabitants and visitors of the much frequented
watering-places of Leamington and Cheltenham will thus
obtain a direct line between those resorts, instead of the
present circuitous route through Birmingham, affording
that facility of intercommunication which has long been
ardently desired ; and it will also afford the utmost facility
of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as
well by the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shak-
speare, annually resort to Stratford-on-Avon.
To those passengers from the east and north-east, direct
to Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the
angle of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, to
Cheltenham, will afford a great accommodation and a
saving in distance of at least eight miles, besides the delay
of the stoppage at Cheltenham.
To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough
of Tewksbury, this portion of the proposed line will prove
immensely advantageous ; situated within ten miles of the
important City and Port of Gloucester, they have, never-
theless, to travel by the present railway route, nearly
twice that distance, an inconvenience which has already
materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests
of the town. The proposed line running close to the
town will remove this great inconvenience, and restore its
trade to its former state of prosperity.
The value of this line to the City and Port of Glouces-
ter cannot be too highly estimated, as it will not only
open to it immense sources of traffic from the whole of
Eastern and North-eastern Counties, but will very ma-
terially lessen the distance between it and Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making Glou-
cester still more securely the nearest and most accessible
outlet for the whole of that immensely productive manu-
facturing region ; and it is impossible to conceive any
project better calculated to advance the interests of Glou-
cester than one capable of effecting that object.
This Line will also form an important junction between
the London and Birmingham, and Midlands Railways,
and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, and constitute
the highway for the traffic of the former, and of all the
North-eastern Railways, to the proposed Manchester and
Southampton Railway at Cheltenham ; and the through
traffic from the latter source alone is expected to be very
great.
It will thus have the effect of connecting the Ports of
the Eastern and North-eastern with those of the Western
and Southern coasts ; of affording the most direct and
convenient access from the North and East, to the vast
mineral regions of South Wales, and of opening new
markets for the rich products of the fertile valleys of the
Avon and Severn, and the agricultural districts of Vl'ar-