Directory of Stage Coach Services, 1836

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Uses wide ranging sources to present data about the industry's services at a point in time. The year is 1836 when passenger coach carrying reached its peak before declining in the face of railway competition. Lists services giving for each name of business, trading name, route, and places and times of departure and arrival. The tables are: 'Long distance stage coaches from and to London'; 'Additional coaches to and from London'; 'London branch coaches'; 'Principal proprietors of long distance stage and Royal Mail coaches from and to London'; 'Number of daily departures of long distance stage and Royal Mail coaches from principal establishments in London'; 'Other coaching establishments in London'; 'Timetable of Royal Mail coaches from and to London'; 'Cross-country and local Royal Mail coaches'; 'Cross-country and local stage coaches outside London'; 'Local stage coaches in the London area'