East Indian Junction Railway
1847 July. Prospectus issued.[1][2]
EAST INDIAN JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY from Alahabad and Benares, via Jaunpoor and Azimgurh, to Ghazepoor and Goruckpoor.— Provisionally Registered — Capital 3,400,000/., in Shares of 50/. Deposit 5s
PROVISIONAL COMMITTE.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Harley, Prior Park-buildings Bath
- James Deacon Howe, Esq., Highbury-vale.
- Recce Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex.
- John Northcote, Esq., Uptowman, Tiverton, Devon.
- James Vernon Stoddart, Esq., Mornington-crescent.
- James Hickenbotham, Esq., Rochford Essex
- William Maxwell Powell, Esq., Upper Holloway
- William Walter Smith, Esq., Brook-green. Hammersmith, and Warwick.
- George Warman Esq., Greenwich, and Thrapston, Northamptonshire
(With power to add to their number.)
- Bankers— London and County Joint-Stock Bank.
- Engineer— John Thompson, C.E.
- Solicitor— T. W. Smith. Eqs.
- Secretary (pro tem.) James W. Parrish, Esq.
The object of the promoters of this undertaking is to connect the large and populous cities of Jaunpoor, Azimgurh, Ghazeepoor, and Goruckpoor by a line of railway passing through some of the most exuberantly rich and fertile provinces of North-Western India and of the valley of the Ganges, forming a junction with the great trunk line of the East India Railway at the large and flourishing cities of Alahabad and Benares; thus opening a direct communication between those provinces and Calcutta, and by the proposed line of the Great India Peninsula Company with the Presidency of Bombay.
The promoters of this undertaking wish to draw attention to the Report of the Managing Director, R. Macdonald Stephenson, Esq., to Sir George Larpent and the Directors of the East India Railway, dated Calcutta, April 8. 1846, where he says:—
"As regards lines of railway which may have been, or may hereafter be proposed by other companies, and which unite at different points with the trunk line of the East Indian Railway Company, it is a subject deserving the consideration of your Board whether the interests of the Company will not be promoted by the Board rendering every assistance and information they are in possession of to the parties who may require it, and otherwise to promote the extension of such branch railways as shall tend to increase the traffic on the main line."
Applications for Prospectuses and Shares to be made to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company. 38, Bucklersbury. London, July 2, 1847.