The post is here!
Advertisements for express coaches between Chur and Milan, 1823. After the extensions of the pass roads mail coaches travelled between North and South for the first time. The cantonal post office still doubted the profitability of these coach routes. This is why private companies like Abys & Bauer were the first to offer coach travels (in German).Image: Raetian Museum
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Mail coach ticket from the main post office Graubünden, 1839. The canton took over the mail coach routes in 1835. In 1848 this was handed to the federal authorities. Travel by mail coach remained costly, affordable only to the wealthy (in German).Photo: Raetian Museum
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An eight-seater mail coach of the coupé-landau type on the village road in Tschierv in the Münstertal.Photo: Gian Battista Gross. State archive, Graubünden, StAGR N2.1579
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Horse-drawn mail coach in the Viamala, 1914.Photo: Raetian Museum
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A coachman tells his tale. Kaspar Meuli (1885‒1970)
was a coachman on the San Bernardino and
the Flüela pass. In this interview he remembers his time at work.
Amateur recording from a private Collection (in German).
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Mail car near Chur, c. 1930. Because a general ban on motor traffic in the Grisons was still in force, special permission had been given to a mail car travelling between Reichenau and Flims in 1919. Eventually, one horse-drawn route after another had to give way to motor traffic.Photo: Raetian Museum
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Mail car on the Umbrail road, c. 1920/1930.Photo: Raetian Museum
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Mail car advert prospectus, c. 1950/60 (in German).Photo: Raetian Museum
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