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Leaders of the World: Railway locomotives (2nd series)

Set of 8 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: 18th December 1984

  5 c London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2T Class 9N steam locomotive, UK 1911, with passenger car
10 c Royal Prussian Railway (KPEV) 0-8-0 Class G8 steam locomotive, Germany 1912, with coal car and steam locomotive
20 c Deutsche Reichsbahn 2-10-0 Kriegslokomotiv Class 42 steam locomotive, Germany 1942, with freight cars
25 c Paris & Orlean Railway 4-6-2 rebuilt Class 3500 steam locomotive, France 1929, with passenger car
75 c Commonwealth Railway 4-6-0 Class C steam locomotive, Australia 1938, with freight cars
$ 1 London & Birmingham Railway 2-2-0 steam locomotive “Bury”, UK 1837, with passenger cars
$ 2.50 London & North Western Railway 2-4-0 precedent Class “Hardwicke” steam locomotive, UK 1873, with passenger cars
$ 3 Great Central Railway 2-8-0+0-8-2 Class U1 steam locomotive, UK 1925, with freight cars

 

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Perforation: 12˝

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