In a message dated 26/07/2004 22:16:44 GMT Daylight Time, johnhartley@clear.net.nz writes: To London in the late 1840's My GGG Grandfather and three of his sons travelled from Wigtown to Dorchester Dorset how would they have gone would they have to take a horse drawn coach to Edinburgh and then steam train to London and change to a southern england line?Thanks John It depends on how much money that had. The cheapest way was to walk, and I would suspect that for most ag. lab. families this would be the only way. There was a coach from Portpatrick to Dumfries and one for Dumfries to London but would an ordinary family be able to afford it? And the railway too cost money. Another possibility would be to travel to somewhere like Liverpool by ship ..there was a fair amount of shipping traffic between Galloway and Liverpool. Irene