A mail coach is a stagecoach that is used to deliver mail. In Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia, they were built to a General Post Office-approved...
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The English Mail-Coach is an essay by the English author Thomas De Quincey. A "three-part masterpiece" and "one of his most magnificent works," it first...
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Mail Coach Inn is a heritage-listed former inn and residence at 24 Jellore Street, Berrima, Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was built...
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Stagecoach (redirect from Stage coach)
Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a coaching inn, a highwayman demanding a coach...
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organised mail coaches which were provided by both Wilson & Company of London and Williams & Company of Bath. The early Royal Mail Coaches were similar...
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goods Mail coach or post coach: same as a stagecoach, used to transport mail but also for carrying premium-fare passengers. The first mail coach in Britain...
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Indian Mail and the Punjab Limited operated from the Ballard Pier station. The 12137/12138 Punjab Mail presently has 1 AC 1st Class cum AC 2 tier coach, 1...
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existing link that binds the railway-governed Post-office mail box; of to-day, to the mail-coach-governed Post-office of the past. In shape, the Post-office...
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the mail coach. Just as with roadhouses in other countries, although many survive, and some still offer overnight accommodation, in general coaching inns...
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Amritsar. The train is operated with modern LHB coaches from 29 September 2020. The train ran as the Frontier Mail between 1928 and 1996, ferrying passengers...
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carriages and stagecoaches that carried passengers, luggage, and mail, modern motor coaches are almost always high-floor buses, with separate luggage hold...
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Post horn (redirect from Coach horn)
post rider or mail coach. It was used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries. The post horn is sometimes confused with the coach horn, and even...
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Concord Coach - The Henry Ford". The Henry Ford. Retrieved March 8, 2019. Groves, Melody (2014). Butterfield's Byway: America's First Overland Mail Route...
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sport from the other equestrian events), vaulting, four-in-hand driving, mail coach driving, mixed hacks and hunters and three types of jumping (high jump...
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Express trains in India (redirect from Mail/Express Indian trains)
North Western Railway and Mangalore with two coaches detached and connected to Madras further. The Frontier Mail made its inaugural run between Bombay and...
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mail phaeton used chiefly to carry passengers with luggage and named after its construction, using "mail" springs originally designed for use on mail...
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John Palmer (postal innovator) (section Mail coaches)
British system of mail coaches that was the beginning of the great British post office reforms with the introduction of an efficient mail coach delivery service...
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typical British mail coach would have a single postal employee on board, armed with a blunderbuss and a pair of pistols to guard the mail from highwaymen...
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This is a chronological list of highwaymen, land pirates, mail coach robbers, road agents, stagecoach robbers, and bushrangers active, along trails, roads...
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and James Burke, were being conveyed from Carcoar to Bathurst on the mail coach. The prisoners, under the custody of Sergeant Morrisset and three constables...
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involve the theft of money or luxury goods. In the UK stage coach (from 1784 Mail coach) robberies by highwaymen were common, despite the death penalty...
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12901 Gujarat Mail – AC 1st Class coach 12901 Gujarat Mail – AC 2 tier Class coach 12901 Gujarat Mail – AC 3 tier Class coach 12901 Gujarat Mail – Sleeper...
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Hall, Gilbert and John Dunn. In November 1864, during the robbery of a mail coach at Black Springs Creek near Jugiong, John Gilbert shot and killed Sgt...
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Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company) was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried...
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Intercity bus service (redirect from Intercity coach service)
dramatic improvements to coach speed were made by John Palmer at the British Post Office, who commissioned a fleet of mail coaches to deliver the post across...
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the era of the mail coach, with a driveway leading around the back of the building to a courtyard on the north side where the coaches would assemble....
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driver's seat was mounted on the headboard. Mail coach: A stagecoach primarily for the carriage of mail, though also carrying passengers. Mophrey: An...
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stabling and fodder for the traveller's horses and fresh horses for mail coaches. Famous London examples of inns include the George and the Tabard. A...
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Coachbuilder (redirect from Coach builder)
an automobile, bus, horse-drawn carriage, or railway carriage. The word "coach" was derived from the Hungarian town of Kocs. A vehicle body constructed...
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The four-in-hand mail coach driving was one of five equestrian competitions held in late May and early June 1900 at the International Horse Show in Paris...
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