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Restorer and carriage driver Mark Broadbent, complete with the Royal Mail Blunderbuss carried by the Guard, has spent two years completely rebuilding the historic vehicle.

Last Post - Britain's last Royal Mail carriage, that bizarrely once survived an attack by a lion outside Salisbury, has been saved for the nation.

The 200-year-old horse-drawn carriage harks back to the golden age of the Royal Mail when crowds gathered along the route to see the lightning-quick service thunder by.

The restored four horse coach was known as 'Quicksilver' as it was the fastest in the land on its regular 21 hour run from Devonport, Devon, to London.

But the red and black wooden wagon went down in history for an extraordinary incident involving a lion in the English countryside in 1816.