Carriage
A carriage was a human land vehicle usually pulled by horses or other animals. Before the advent of the automobile, it was one of the primary means of transportation for humans over long distances.
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Types of carriages included the chariot, (TV: The War Games) tikka-ghari, (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire) Hansom cab, (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) hearse, (TV: The Unquiet Dead) Coach, (TV: Tooth and Claw) Brougham, Landau, Phaeton, Sociable, Victoria, (TV: Deep Breath) and stagecoach. (TV: The Woman Who Lived) Trains also had carriages. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks, Mummy on the Orient Express, The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
The Doctor's TARDIS was referred to as a carriage by several people, including Tegana (TV: 'The Roof of the World'), the Seventh Doctor, (TV: Ghost Light) Charlotte Brontë, (COMIC: Unearthly Things) Graham O'Brien, and Lord Byron. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
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Turlough was accidentally struck by a carriage belonging to Jasper Jeake in early 18th century London. (AUDIO: Phantasmagoria)
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson's body was carried to Paris in a hearse carriage when she died in 1764. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
In 1869, the Ninth Doctor and Charles Dickens were involved in a carriage chase with Gabriel Sneed and Gwyneth after the latter pair kidnapped Rose Tyler. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
In 1892, the Eleventh Doctor used a carriage driven by Strax while he maintained his retirement in Victorian London. Clara Oswin Oswald snuck onto the carriage and began asking him questions about his identity. (TV: The Snowmen)
In 1893, Strax had an extremely frustrating streak of carriage rides through Yorkshire, where he believed the horses pulling the carriages got lost. He executed three horses in a single week for their insubordination and nearly performed a fourth execution on another before a street urchin pointed out the way to Sweetville. (TV: The Crimson Horror)
In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II rode in a carriage during her coronation. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)
