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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Grange Farmhouse). Wordsworth and his wife Mary were regular users of the mail coach in order to travel over from the Lakes to visit Mary's parents at Stockton-on-Tees...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    by mail coach, under armed guard, was approved by Act of Parliament. Mail coaches were similar in design to the passenger-carrying stage coaches, but...
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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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    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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    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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    The Zeederberg Coach Company was a South African horse-drawn mail and stage coach service operating during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and founded...
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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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    it. Another tentative suggestion is that, since the village was on a mail coach route, it may have been the location of one of the Bianconi Inns established...
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    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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  • Bank of Australia, Rosebank, Oldbury's Inn, Holsberry Inn, Mail Coach Inn, and Royal Mail Coach Inn. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register...
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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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    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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    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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