Stage station
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A stage station, also known as a relay station, posting station or a staging post, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest or replace exhausted horses for fresh ones,
Yard of the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, 1831
Spent coach-horses Place de Passy, Paris
The Bull and Mouth's yard, St. Martin's Le Grand in 1838
Butterfield stage station, Oak Grove, CA. built 1858, photographed 1960
Post chaise
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A post-chaise is a travelling carriage operated in the 18th and early 19th centuries, travelling from staging post-to-post, and changing horses at each stage. With an enclosed body on four wheels, sea
Stage station
…the space between the stops known as stations, posts, or relays. Organised long-distance land travel became known as staging or posting. Stagecoaches, post chaises, private vehicles, individual riders and the like followed the already long-established system for messengers, couriers and letter-carriers. Through…
A typical post-chaise arrangement: carriage, four horses, and two postilions (riders)
A closeup of a post chaise (2005)
Samuel Howitt (1756–1822)
Samuel Howitt (1756–1822)