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Leaders
of the World: Railway locomotives (5th 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, without inscription
"Leaders of the World" on top and bottom.
Issue
date: 23rd December 1986 |
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15 c
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4-6-0 Highland Railway steam locomotive
Castle Class at roundhouse with other steam locomotives, UK 1900
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45 c
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0-8-0T Southern Railway steam locomotive
Class Z at station, UK 1929
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60 c
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2-8-2T Great Western Railway steam
locomotives 7200 Class with other steam locomotive, cars and signal, UK 1934
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75 c
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4-2-0 Aberdeen Railway steam locomotive No.
26 with passenger cars at station and other passenger cars, UK 1850
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$ 1
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2-10-2 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad steam locomotives Class 900 with freight car, USA 1903
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$ 1.50
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4-4-0 Philadelphia, Germantown &
Norristown Railroad steam locomotive with car, USA 1837
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$ 2
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Bo-Bo Penn Central Railroad “Metroliner”
electric passenger train, USA 1969
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$ 3
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French
National Railways (SNCF) TGV gas turbine locomotive with passenger cars,
France 1972
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