Share with us your stamps depicting Trains!

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » 18 Jan 2010 00:07

If you have any stamps depicting trains or anything related to the railway system, you may share your scans here. To get the ball rolling, I'll show you mine:

Showing the Vulcan-engine steam train of North Borneo

iomoon · Post by **iomoon** » 18 Jan 2010 00:19

Longonot in background

beardmore10 · Post by **beardmore10** » 18 Jan 2010 03:06

Marcel,don't know much about trains but had these lying in an old stock book.

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » 18 Jan 2010 04:18

beardmore10 wrote:Marcel,don't know much about trains but had these lying in an old stock book.

Wow! These trains look really good! And all of them in one sheet?! I wished I had one of those

beardmore10 · Post by **beardmore10** » 18 Jan 2010 10:17

Marcel,it's actually four individual strips laid side by side for scanning...still they do look quite cool 8)

Dogg · Post by **Dogg** » 18 Jan 2010 14:01

Here's a "booklet" a buddy of mine gave me (his dad had it tucked away):

beardmore10 · Post by **beardmore10** » 18 Jan 2010 14:42

Dogg,lovely set.

Night Watchman · Post by **Night Watchman** » 18 Jan 2010 19:46

Many years we made a journey on the legendary Ghan train. A stamp showing the Train had issued just a few weeks earlier on 1 June 1993. So I took along a few Ghan stamps and prepared souvenir covers using envelopes supplied on the Train. I duly obtained the pictorial The Ghan train postmark on the day of arrival in Alice Springs (Northern Territory) on 6 July 1993.

Eleven years later, on 7 September 2004 the famous Train got another showing on a stamp of Australia. So I hunted around for my covers and off they went to get the dual treatment, a first day of issue pictorial postmark.

I don't collect Train stamps. But have made all the long-distance train journeys of Australia.
This is a rather personal souvenir of a memorable train trip through the centre of Australia.

Harth · Post by **Harth** » 18 Jan 2010 20:58

Saudi Arabia Railway, Trains, stamps 1950 and 1925

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » 21 Jan 2010 08:52

Ireland Railways Train (1984)

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » 21 Jan 2010 08:56

Ireland Trains (2005)

Dublin-Belfast Railway 150th Anniversary.

Harth · Post by **Harth** » 21 Jan 2010 18:18

Nice stamps Marcel, The old Trains look nice as well.
Harth

norvic · Post by **norvic** » 21 Jan 2010 20:04

Dogg wrote:Here's a "booklet" a buddy of mine gave me (his dad had it tucked away):

Technically it is a "presentation pack" - and if I had bought it I would have immediately rejected the torn 31p stamp and had it replaced by the seller (PO if that is where it was bought from!)

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 21 Jan 2010 21:36

Not so serious but I promise to contribute some trains from my album before long.

While looking at what I am missing from my NZ collection I saw this one issued in 2005. The set was commemorating community organisations:

plsllvn · Post by **plsllvn** » 22 Jan 2010 01:27

I had this posted in another tread but seems like it fits in here also
Paul

vb68 · Post by **vb68** » 22 Jan 2010 18:50

This is one of mine stamps. It is not very valuable but it is nice. It is refering to
"100 years from the first Orient Express train through Europe"

All the best,
Valentin

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 25 Jan 2010 20:10

I have always liked Austrian stamps and recent issues still impress me. He is one from 2009:

It celebrates 120 Years of the DrÃ¶sing-Zistersdorf local railway. Can anyone throw any light on the type of locomotive?

Brummie · Post by **Brummie** » 25 Jan 2010 21:11

Somebody had to do it

I think these are the only trains we produced, am I right?

"Double Fairlie" type Locomotive, Western Australia

Locomotive "Puffing Billy" Line, Victoria.

Locomotive, Pichi Richi Line, South Australia.

Locomotive, Zig Zag Railway, New South Wales.

Yobo · Post by **Yobo** » 26 Jan 2010 01:11

Trains really look good on stamps, especially the older trains. Almost makes me want to start a topical on trains.

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 26 Jan 2010 07:45

Definitely not

The latest was a set of 5 in 2004 but there are a number of others. They are coming up.

Brummie · Post by **Brummie** » 26 Jan 2010 08:38

Hope they are nicer than this set. The stamps on this thread are really brilliant, well, until I posted the Aussie set that is

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 26 Jan 2010 09:16

A little teaser - from the Urban Environment set of 1989:

iomoon · Post by **iomoon** » 26 Jan 2010 09:34

Momotombo and train

Brummie · Post by **Brummie** » 26 Jan 2010 09:40

This is taking 'train spotting' to a new level Io

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 26 Jan 2010 19:24

Australia 2004

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 28 Jan 2010 20:47

On to an Australian Territory now. Christmas Island has issued a number of stamps featuring trains. Although there is no railway now there was, at least, a narrow gauge network and a standard gauge system which served the phosphate mines.

I have two stamps, from a set of three, issued in 1994 some years after the lines were closed. Perhaps someone else has the $1.20 stamp.

My research showed only six locomotives (numbered 1-6) so I am not sure about the 95c stamp featuring no. 9. It looks like it could be a narrow gauge shunting engine but I am not sure.

The 85c features a 4-4-4 Shay locomotive (one of three) and it is most unusual to find this type of engine outside of the United States.

GUTTERS · Post by **GUTTERS** » 28 Jan 2010 21:49

Another aussie from the 70's and they are still running on Australian lines today.

GUTTERS · Post by **GUTTERS** » 28 Jan 2010 21:55

And the 1954 Centenary stamp

Draccae · Post by **Draccae** » 30 Jan 2010 06:08

A few train stamps on silk covers...

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » 01 Feb 2010 04:18

Irish Trams 1987:

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 01 Feb 2010 07:35

Nice Marcel

If this thread is to include trams as well as trains (and I am happy with that) then you might like to look at http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10448.

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » 01 Feb 2010 09:00

KevinHedley wrote:Nice Marcel

If this thread is to include trams as well as trains (and I am happy with that) then you might like to look at http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=10448.

Hi Kevin, thanks for linking the thread! Some very interesting posts in there.

RolyRJ · Post by **RolyRJ** » 01 Feb 2010 16:07

Not my field of collecting but I have these rather nice Train Stamps.

Cinderellas from Glenbrook Vintage Railway, New Zealand.

They are about to appear in the For Sale Forum just as a heads up

But then you can email using the link at the bottom of this post......................

Imperf sheet:

UHM sheet:

CTO sheet:

Commemorative Cover:

Cheers,

Roly

Kloster · Post by **Kloster** » 01 Feb 2010 20:50

From a parcel I delivered myself to a dentist, it's nicer then the scan act. shows.

Kloster

prabhakar · Post by **prabhakar** » 04 Feb 2010 19:45

Heritage Railway Stations of India
Howrah (Kolkata), Chennai Central, Mumbai CST, Old Delhi

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 08 Feb 2010 20:18

Here is a cover I received more than fifty years ago - followed by an enlarged version of the stamp with the train.

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 21 Feb 2010 11:30

Here is a stamp from a tourism issue (set of four) in 2009. Although the stamp is Indonesian the train is from Singapore as it was a joint issue.

The location is Sentosa Island and the vehicle called the Beach Tram runs on a light rail system.

pobrien36 · Post by **pobrien36** » 21 Feb 2010 15:38

Here are a few old U.S. ones I have.

pobrien36 · Post by **pobrien36** » 21 Feb 2010 15:44

Here are a few more:

brissypete · Post by **brissypete** » 21 Feb 2010 20:13

Here's a few more contributions:

Christmas Island FDC

Sydney Millenium Train Sheet

The Ghan Sheet

Eastern Suburbs Sydney Railway Opening Cover & Postmark

ScotsmanAbroad · Post by **ScotsmanAbroad** » 21 Feb 2010 22:06

pobrien36 wrote:Here are a few more:

These are fantastic, Pat. I've never seen them before. I can practically hear Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" playing as I look at the design of that middle one with the railroad engineers. Brilliant!

pobrien36 · Post by **pobrien36** » 22 Feb 2010 05:44

ScotsmanAbroad wrote:These are fantastic, Pat. I've never seen them before. I can practically hear Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" playing as I look at the design of that middle one with the railroad engineers. Brilliant!

Thanks ScotsmanAbroad

adam c · Post by **adam c** » 22 Feb 2010 07:47

Here is a set from Poland...

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 01 Mar 2010 19:09

The Ghan has been featured before and I have repeated those items here. Following the stamp and sheetlet I have added an aerial photo of the train. The area is unusually green but it gives a good idea of the type of country traversed in Central Australia. At the moment the train cannot run because the track has been washed away by floods.

KevinHedley · Post by **KevinHedley** » 23 Mar 2010 18:15

I thought that members would be interested in this image from the BBC News web-site.

The caption is:
A road junction at the Elephant and Castle, south London, June 1912. Wonderful - cars, buses, a horse-drawn delivery van and both single deck and double decker trams

traralgon3844 · Post by **traralgon3844** » 23 Mar 2010 22:32

I thought someone would have loaded this gutter prior to this.

tacomabob · Post by **tacomabob** » 28 Mar 2010 12:31

pobrien36 wrote:Here are a few old U.S. ones I have.

The 2 cent stamp is unique to USA postage !
It is the only stamp ever issued showing a woman with bare breasts.
(I bet you are all taking a closer look !)

stevel · Post by **stevel** » 02 Apr 2010 09:00

Hi all
How about these unusual ones from Nicaragua - I have quite a few of these, but they do take quite a bit of space up in the album (each stamp incl. the perfs is approx. 62 x 45mm)

pirano · Post by **pirano** » 06 Apr 2010 00:51

Rivas is in a very beautiful part of Nicaragua, a narrow isthmus between the Pacific and Lake Nicaragua. It first came into prominence when it was considered as a site for a canal, before the Panama option came about.

pirano · Post by **pirano** » 06 Apr 2010 00:54

Some East German trains in all their glory, Michel 2414-2417. I particularly like the one carrying the trabants.