horse and cart

English

Noun

horse and cart (plural horses and carts)

1. (historical) A cart, pulled by a horse and driven by a driver, used for transporting goods.
   • 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:

     "Our railways were developed to their fullest extent at a time when the horse and cart was the only means of feeding to and distributing from them. ... In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:

     But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.

   • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:

     In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.