stagecoach
Sign in to saveA stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, '''''') 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 by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses.
Key facts
- UK legislation.long_title
- An Act to repeal the Duties under the Management of the Commissioners of Stamps on Stage Carriages and on Horses let for Hire in Great Britain, and to grant other Duties in lieu thereof; and also to consolidate and amend the Laws relating thereto.
- UK legislation.year
- 1832
- UK legislation.citation
- 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 120
- UK legislation.territorial_extent
- United Kingdom
- UK legislation.royal_assent
- 16 August 1832
- UK legislation.commencement
- 9 June 1810
- UK legislation.repeal_date
- 21 May 1981
- UK legislation.repealing_legislation
- Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981
- UK legislation.status
- Repealed
- UK legislation.collapsed
- yes
- UK legislation.short_title
- Stage Coaches, etc. (Great Britain) Act 1810
- UK legislation.type
- Act
- UK legislation.parliament
- Parliament of the United Kingdom
- UK legislation.original_text
- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4aFUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1016
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- Description
- Speed
- History
- Origins
- Royal Mail stagecoaches
- Improved coach design
- Improved roads
- Taxation and regulation
- Stage Coaches Acts of Great Britain
- Decline and evolution
- Competitive display and sport
- Spread elsewhere
- Australia
- Continental Europe
- New Zealand
- United States
- Southern Africa
- Ottoman Palestine
- In popular culture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, '''''') 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 by four horses although 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 known as staging.