CONTENTS 



I. The Later Mails 



II. Down the Road in Days of Yore. I. — A 

 Journey from Newcastle-on-Tyne to London 

 in 1772 ........ 



III. Down the Road in Days of Yore. II. — From 



London to Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1830 . 



IV. Accidents ........ 



V. A Great Carrying Firm : The Story of Pickford 

 AND Co. .... 



VI. Robbery and Adventure 



VII. Snow and Floods 



VIII. The Golden Age, 1824—1848 



IX. Coach-proprietors 



X. Coach-proprietors [continued) 



XL The Amateurs .... 



XII. End of the Coaching Age . 



XIII. What Became of the Coachmen 



XIV. The Old England of Coaching Days 



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