The first official mail service over the Blue Mountains
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James Watsford carried the first regular mail from Parramatta to Penrith, Collit's Inn and Bathurst. He was also the owner of the first stagecoach in Australia and the first to drive a coach over the Blue Mountains.
Waymark Code: WMA37X
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 11/09/2010
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James Watsford owned the first stagecoach in Australia.
On 6th April, 1832, Watsford pioneered the first mail coach run from Parramatta to Bathurst via Penrith and Collit’s Inn, at the foot of Mt York in the Hartley Valley.
The mail route over the Blue Mountains followed from there.
He came to the ridge of Mt York at nightfall, and the passengers and horses rested while he prepared the coach for its incredible 1060 metres downward plunge by attaching logs to drag behind the coach and slow it down.
Then, in the dark and mist, probably to let the passengers see as little as possible, down he went, down Lawson’s Long Alley to the Vale of Clwydd, reviving all at Collit’s Inn below.
The next day the famous coach driver continued along Cox’s road through O”Connell Plains to Bathurst.
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