The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, And History On the Classic Highway to the South
The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, And History On the Classic Highway to the South
Charles G Charles George Harper
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He had entered the Post Office service in that capacity in 1836, and was at this time superintending the despatch of mails at Paddington Station. Old times were come again, and even the guard's horn had not been forgotten. True, old Nobbs could not blow it properly, for " his teeth had been drawn by Time, the thief " ; but cheering crowds, unfamiliar with the coach-horn, applauded the weird sounds he produced. In short, the experiment was successful, and 286 THE BRIGHTON ROAD the service has no...t only been regularly continued ever since, but has been extended to many other roads and routes of comparatively short mileage. The down van set out from the London Bridge office every night at 9.45, and met an up van from Brighton half-way, outside the ** Chequers " at Horley, at 12.55. There the up van continued to London with the driver who had just brought down the Brighton mail, and the Brighton driver, taking over the other van, returned to the Brighton office, which was reached at 4.45 a.m.
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