A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn b
Preserved Concord stagecoach in Wells Fargo livery
Postcoach or diligence in Switzerland
Behind time, anonymous engraving of a stagecoach in England
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,
Stagecoach
…some versions are drawn by six horses. Commonly used before steam-powered rail transport was available, a stagecoach made long scheduled trips using stage stations or posts where the stagecoach's horses would be replaced by fresh horses. The business of running stagecoaches or the act of journeying in them was…
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