Story: Coaches and long-distance buses

Muddy roads

Muddy roads

In the old coaching days, the roads could be bad – when they existed at all. After rainy weather, coaches often became bogged down in the mud – like this one on the East Coast road between Waipiro Bay and Gisborne, probably in the 1880s.

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Jane Tolerton, 'Coaches and long-distance buses - Coach travel', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/20921/muddy-roads (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 11 Mar 2010