Stage and Mail Coaches (Shire Album): No.416 (Shire Library) - Softcover

Mountfield, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747805547 ISBN 13: 9780747805540

Publisher: Shire Publications, 2003

Synopsis

It is often forgotten that in the early nineteenth century, before the arrival of the railways, Britain had the fastest and most efficient form of public overland transport the world had ever seen. By the 1820s, what had once been a hideous chore became a fashionable pastime and a boon to business. But this golden age of public long-distance coaching was short. Within twenty years, as the railways spread across Britain, it was in rapid decline, unable to compete with its faster, more comfortable and much cheaper rival.

About this edition

• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0747805547
• ISBN 13: 9780747805540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32