Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Vol. 1: A Picturesque History of the Coaching Age (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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If, then, we please to pronounce for that event as the true beginning, and allow 1848, the year when one of the last coaches, the Bedford Times, was Withdrawn from the London and Bedford road in consequence of the opening of the Bletchley and Bedford branch railway, to be the end, we have the beginning, the growth and perfection of the old coaching era, and its final extinction, all comprised within a period of a hundred and ninety-one years.

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