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Leaders of the World: Railway locomotives (1st series)

Set of 4 vertical pairs of stamps

Multiple sets with similar design but different subjects were issued by 17 countries of British Commonwealth.

Each pair shows technical drawings in the upper stamp, and the locomotive at work in the lower one, as described here below.

Issue date: 29th February 1984
  1 c Southern Pacific Railroad 4-8-4 Class GS4 steam locomotive, USA 1941
15 c New South Wales Government Railway 4-8-4+4-8-4 Class AD60 steam locomotive with coal cars, Australia 1952
40 c New South Wales Government Railway 4-6-2 Class C38 steam locomotive with freight cars , Australia 1943
60 c Great Western Railway 4-2-2 Achilles Class steam locomotive “Lord of The Isles”, UK 1892

 

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Perforation: 12˝
Catalog No.: M ??? - S 222/5 - SG 241/8 - YT ???