Stagecoach
A stagecoach is a type of four-wheeled enclosed
coach for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand. Formerly making regular trips between stations, it was widely used before the introduction of
railway transport. Familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a
Royal Mail coach passing through a
turnpike gate, a
Dickensian passenger coach covered in snow pulling up at a
coaching inn, a
highwayman demanding a coach to "stand and deliver", and a coach being chased by
American Indians in a
Western movie. The stagecoach was first developed in the British Isles during the 1500s, and only died out in the early 1900s in the United States. Coaching inns opened up throughout Europe to accommodate stagecoach passengers. Shakespeare's first plays were staged at coaching inns such as
The George Inn, Southwark. The Royal Mail stagecoach, a
mail coach introduced in 1784, hastened the improvement of the road system in the British Isles through the
turnpike trust system. And the stagecoach was vital in the colonisation of
North America.
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Postkoets
Een postkoets is een door paarden voortgetrokken rijtuig (
koets) voor vervoer van
post en
reizigers. Postkoetsen reden tussen posthaltes, plaatsen waar de paarden, bemanning en reizigers konden eten, drinken en rusten en waar reizigers konden uit- of instappen, waar lading en paarden gewisseld konden worden.
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