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*'''Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway''': Advertised in '''September 1845''' seeking capital of £2.2M. The prospectus began "''This important line, the only one having for its object the direct communication between South Wales, Birmingham, the Midland counties, Liverpool, Manchester and the North, will commence at Hereford, and passing to the Vale of the Severn via Bewdley, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Iron Bridge and Coalbrook Dale, take a direct route through or near Wellington and Market Drayton to Crewe, or to Runcorn, whence the existing lines will continue the traffic to Liverpool, Manchester and the North. At Bewdley there will be a branch line through Kidderminster to Birmingham and the Midland Counties.''".<ref>Worcestershire Chronicle, 24 September 1845, via the British Newspaper Archive</ref>

*'''Direct London and Holyhead Railway''': Advertised in '''October 1845''' seeking capital of £2M, it proposed a direct route between London and Holyhead. The southern end of the route was described thus: "''It will commence by a junction with the proposed Buckinghamshire Railway at Banbury, and will proceed by way of Kineton, Stratford and Bromsgrove to Kidderminster. From Kidderminster, passing near Bridgnorth, Madeley, Broseley and Wellington to Shrewsbury''.".<ref>Worcester Journal, 9 October 1845, via the British Newspaper Archive</ref>

*Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow and Birmingham Railway

*Shropshire Mineral Railway

*Shropshire Union Railway (Worcester to Crewe)