| | | | |Toll Bar. Bags dropped for Leadhills.| | | 14 0 | 1 44 |Arrived at Abington, 10.26. | | | 4 3 | | | | | | | | |Burn & Paton| 9 0 | 0 52 |Arrived at Douglas Mill, 11.18. Bags | | | | | dropped for Lesmahago. | | | 6 0 | 0 46 |Arrived at Knowknack, 12.4. | | | 2 0 | | | | | 9 3 | 0 53 |Arrived at Hamilton, 12.57. | | | 11 0 | 1 3 |Arrived at the Post Office, Glasgow, | | | | | the of , 183 , at 2 p.m. by| | | | | timepiece; at by clock. | | | | |Coach No. arrived | | | | |Delivered the timepiece safe, | | | | | No. , to . | | +---------+--------+ | | | 94 7 | 9 0 | | +------------+---------+--------+-------------------------------------+ In their last years, however, the Carlisle and Glasgow and the Carlisle and Edinburgh mails were run to clear 11 miles an hour: the time between Carlisle and Glasgow being cut down to 8 hours 32 minutes. Cautious folk steered clear of such performances, for accidents were frequent. But it was not speed that caused the dreadful accident to the up Manchester mail from Carlisle, overturned at Penrith on September 25th, 1835. The coach was passing the “Greyhound” inn when the horses, startled by a sudden thunderstorm, upset the coach. A gentleman on the roof was killed, and three other outsiders and the coachman were stunned. But this was not the full measure of the Glasgow mails. The London and Manchester mail, once proceeding no further than Manchester, was extended by a second coach to Carlisle. This and the regular old Glasgow mail were in later years timed to meet at Penrith at four o’clock in the morning, and went on together to Carlisle. Carlisle was thus a busy centre for the mails, and in addition sent out, besides its local coaches and a mail for Edinburgh, a four-horse mail-coach for Portpatrick, carrying the mails for the north of Ireland. This also went along the main road so far as Gretna, whence it branched for Dumfries; continuing from that town to Portpatrick as a two-horse affair.