CONTENTS

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I.The Later Mails[1]
II.Down the Road in Days of Yore. I.—A Journey from Newcastle-on-Tyne to London in 1772[48]
III.Down the Road in Days of Yore. II.—From London to Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1830[66]
IV.Accidents[96]
V.A Great Carrying Firm: The Story of Pickford and Co.[123]
VI.Robbery and Adventure[144]
VII.Snow and Floods[159]
VIII.The Golden Age, 1824–1848[173]
IX.Coach-proprietors[194]
X.Coach-proprietors (continued)[226]
XI.The Amateurs[239]
XII.End of the Coaching Age[260]
XIII.What Became of the Coachmen[292]
XIV.The Old England of Coaching Days[322]