Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 2 (of 2) / A picturesque history of the coaching age

Chapter 19: Transcriber’s Notes

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The work surveys the rise, operation, and decline of mail‑coaches and stage‑coaches, detailing routes, speeds, fares, and the road improvements that enabled faster service. It recounts accidents, robberies, winter storms and floods, and the daily realities of long journeys, while profiling major carrying firms, coach proprietors, and the drivers and guards who kept services running. It explores disputes over tolls and postal privileges, traces technological and organizational advances that produced a coaching golden age, and describes how railways and changing transport needs brought about the end of the coaching era, concluding with reflections on its social and landscape legacies.

Printed by Hazett, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks remedied.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references. Links to pages in Volume I (double-underlined) may not be supported by some eReaders.

The symbol on page 278 is a hand, pointing to the right (“white right-pointing index”).

Volume I is available at Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) as eBook number 58667 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58667).