Retitled 'An Old Stage-Coaching House' in collected editions of the series.
Dickens touches on the national decline in coaching activity in the face of railway competition in 'Dullborough Town' but had first publicly predicted it in 1837, in his final editorial contribution to Bentley's Miscellany (see Vol. 1 of the Dent edition of Dickens's Journalism, p. 553).
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