CONTENTS

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I.The Introduction of Carriages[1]
II.The Horsemen[14]
III.Dawn of the Coaching Age[57]
IV.Growth of Coaching in the Eighteenth Century[87]
V.The Stage-Waggons and what they Carried: How the Poor Travelled[103]
VI.The Early Mail-Coaches[146]
VII.The Nineteenth Century: 1800–1824[181]
VIII.Coach Legislation[194]
IX.The Early Coachmen[221]
X.The Later Coachmen[231]
XI.Mail-guards[249]
XII.Stage-coach Guards[272]
XIII.How the Coaches were Named[282]
XIV.Going by Coach: Booking Offices[320]
XV.How the Coach Passengers Fared: Manners and Customs down the Road[333]