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Leaders of the World: Railway locomotives (4^th 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: 19^th March 1985

Great Western Railway 2-8-0 Churchward 28XX Class steam locomotive, UK 1905, with freight cars and signal

Ministry of Railways 4-8-4 Class KF steam locomotve, China 1935, with passenger car; another passenger car in background

Deutsche Reichsbahn 2-10-2T Class 99-77 steam locomotive, East Germany 1952, with baggage and passenger cars; freight car on the right

Circulation: ???

Perforation: 12½