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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: 9th August 1984

  5 c 0-4-0 Wylam Colliery steam locomotive "Puffing Billy" and passenger cars (UK 1813) at National Railway Museum, York
60 c 0-4-0 Middleton Colliery steam cog locomotive "Prince Regent" and coal cars, UK 1812
$ 1 2-8-2 Japanese National Railways Class D51 steam locomotive and passenger car, Japan 1936
$ 2 4-6-2 Deutsche Reichsbahn Class 01 steam locomotive and passenger car at station, Germany 1924

 

Circulation: ???

Perforation: 12½

Catalog No.: M ??? - S 13+34+44+52 - SG –– - YT ???