The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-31 00:00:00

THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS EXTENSION
LINE, AND THE JUNCTION WITH THE LIVER-
POOL RAILWAY.

We last wee

the fact, that wof the pur-
chases of land for.loticed tbe extension of thethe Leedshole Line to the
Hunt's Bank Station had been completed. We understand
that the contracts for the same, two for the formation of the
works of the line, and a third for the erection of the station,
are to be let on the 6th June; and it is expected that the
whole of the works will be completed, and the line open to
the public, to the Hunt's Bank Station, in all September,
1843. We underkand that the Manchester and Liverpool
Company are also proceeding rapidly with the purchases of

those portions of the land requ
which are situate between the
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ommittee on this bill had leave to sit
We believe it is expected that the
Junction Line will be completed by the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway Company by the same time as the Manches-
ter and Leeds Extension Line ; so that this important link
in the great chain of railway communication across the island
from Liverpool, through Manchester and Leeds, to Hull,
will be completed in the autumn of next year. It will also
connect the Manchester and Birmingham Line with the
lines northward, en both the west and east sides of the
island; and, in short, it is not easy to estimate its importance
and advantages, by thus giving continuity to the various lines
of railway communication to various parts of the kingdom.
Of course the junction of all these lines will require a spa-

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cious station; and the Manchester and Leeds Company
have already purchased groupd for this purpose around
their offices in Clowes's-buildiuys, Hunt's Bank, comprising

in one plot nearly five acres, or about 23,720 square yards of
land. We see that the Mersey and Irwell Navigation
Company (Me Old Quay Company) have set labourers to
work to remove the masonry of the old abutments, together
with the loose stone and rubbish from the river beneath the
Victoria Bridge, in order to make the river navigable from
that point up to Hunt's Bank. where the company will
establish a communication with the lines of railway.. In our
next we shall probably notice the course of the proposed line
of the Extension Railway from Collyhurst to Hunt's Bank,
the direction which it is at present proposed to take for the
Junction Line from Hunt's Bank to the Bolton Railway
Station, and thence to the Liverpool and Manchester Line.—
Manchester Guardian.

We beg to call the attention of our readers, and particu-
larly of such of them as are shareholders in the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway, to those parts of the above statement
which we have marked in italics. The proposed Hunt's
Bank junction, we are told, will " also connect the Manches-
ter and Birmingham line " with the lines to the north and
west. It will do no such thing. A gap will still remain be-
tween Hunt's Bank and Store-street; and the Manches-
ter and Birmingham and Manchester and Sheffield traffic will
remain isolated from any connection with Liverpool until a

communication is effected between those two points. When
will that communication be made ? Will it ever be made ?
Again—" of course the junction of all these lines will re-
quire a spacious station," and that station is to be upon the
low ground near Hunt's Bank, to the north east of Manches-

ter, whilst the business part of the town and the residences
of the most respectable portion of the inhabitants arc fast re-

moving to the south west. The Post-office has been removed
in that direction within the last three years. The Exchange
will follow it in a few years more. The principal hotels are
already there. If " a spacious station " for the convenience
of all the railways is desirable, it should be a eentralstation;
it should be, moreover, so situated, as to elevation, as to ad-
mit the greatest possible facilities for carriages to and from it.
The neighbourhood of Piccadilly or Store-street, or any
neighbourhood between those streets and Oxford-road would
present such a situation. Hunt's Bank is not central, and it
is the lowest elevation which could be selected in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester. It is, in fact, a heavy drag from
it to every point in the compass ; and the only recommenda-
tion which it possesses is, that its selection as the site of the
of the Manchester railways will confer
value on the unsaleable and untenanted property of Mr.

" spacious station "

Robert Gill !