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Locomotive Philatelica stamp album

Locomotive Philatelica stamp album

Locomotive Philatelica stamp album

Locomotive Philatelica stamp album

Locomotive Philatelica stamp album

Locomotive Philatelica stamp album

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
Inaugural Run of the Silver Jubilee Train, 8 June 1977, Newcastle upon Tyne

Inaugural Run of the Silver Jubilee Train, 8 June 1977, Newcastle upon Tyne

1977
Flying Scotsman Aus. Steam 1988

Flying Scotsman Aus. Steam 1988

1988
Railways through stamps

Railways through stamps

1950-1960
A final tribute to the steam locomotive

A final tribute to the steam locomotive

1968-10
Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
First Day Cover commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 4472

First Day Cover commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 4472

02/05/1973
Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
Stamp presentation pack, Famous Trains

Stamp presentation pack, Famous Trains

Railway Philatelica

Railway Philatelica

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
Frank Stacey stamp album

Frank Stacey stamp album

1963-1995
Royal Mail booklet "Letters By Night - A Tribute to the Travelling Post Office", containing various stamps, images, quotations from W. H. Auden's "Night Mail" and a poem "The Last Post" by Simon Armitage. Produced to commemorate the withdrawal of the Travelling Post Offices in 2004.

Letters By Night - A Tribute to the Travelling Post Office

2004
booklet, paper, commemorative issue 'The Steel Wheel on the Steel Rail, The Story of British Rail,' £5 book of Royal Mail stamps.

The Steel Wheel on the Steel Rail

1986
Stamps, first day cover for Railway Theme Postage Stamps and NYMR Railway Letter Stamps. 18/1/1994

North Yorkshire Moors Railway stamps

1994
Stamps commemorative "The Age of Steam" First day cover issued by G.P.O. 18/1/94. 5 stamps on envelope. Philatelic Bureau Edinburgh. Commemorative issued 18 January 1994, photographs by Colin Gifford, designed by Delaney Design Consultants, printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd, photogravure, PVA gum; 19p stamp, Class 5 No 44957 and Class B1 No. 61343 on West Highland Line; 25p stamp, Class A1 No. 60149 Amadis at Kings Cross; 30p stamp, Class 4 No. 43000 on Turntable at Blyth North; 35p stamp, Class 4 No. 42455 near Wigan Central; 41p stamp, Class Castle No. 7002 Devizes Castle on Bridge crossing Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

The Age of Steam stamps

1994
First day cover celebrating the Forth Bridge centennial, dated 4 March 1990. The cover includes a painting by Brian Lancaster showing an A1 Pacific crossing the bridge.

Forth Bridge Centennial 1890-1990

1990
First day cover celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Edinburgh to Glasgow railway line, dated Glasgow 18 February 1992.

Edinburgh - Glasgow 150 years - this magnificent line

1992
Philatelic first day cover, issued by the Irregular Special Railway Company, The Sherlock Holmes Railway Society, 18 January 1994. Envelope with five Royal Mail stamps from The Age of Steam series by photographer Colin Gifford. The cover features a reproduction of Sidney Paget’s 1892 illustration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, The Adventure of Silver Blaze. The illustration, titled ‘Holmes gave me a sketch of the events’, depicts Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes in a railway carriage on a journey to Dartmoor. A simplified version of the illustration also appears in the two frank markings inked over the stamps. The stamps, in five denominations are 19p depicting Class 5 No 44957 and Class B1 No. 61343 on West Highland Line; 25p depicting Class A1 No. 60149 Amadis at Kings Cross; 30p depicting Class 4 No. 43000 on Turntable at Blyth North; 35p depicting Class 4 No. 42455 near Wigan Central; 41p depicting Class Castle No. 7002 Devizes Castle on Bridge crossing Worcester and Birmingham Canal. The stamps, in photogravure and PVA gum, were designed by Delaney Design Consultants, printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd. Text on the cover gives details of the society and the address of Antony Richards. At top right is a small illustration of a tank locomotive with deerstalker and pipe.

First day cover, Irregular Special Railway Company

1994
An envelope covered in 9 first day covers. The object is dated 18 Janurary, 1994, and is post marked N.Y.M.R. Goathland.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway, first day covers

1994
Commemorative cover, paper, Nene Valley Railway Railway Letter Service, marking the operation of the Nene Valley Railway's mail bag exchange apparatus at Yarwell. Bears an 'NVR Railway Letter' stamp.

Nene Valley Railway Railway Letter Service

2008
Postal cover, paper, First Mail by Rail Liverpool & Manchester Rly 11 November 1830 Post Office Commemorative Cover, carried on special train from Liverpool to York via Manchester, 11 November 1980. Issued by the Post Office, designed by Sutherland Hawes & Associates, bearing 5 stamps illustrating the Liverpool & Manchester Railway designed by David Gentleman and printed by Harrison & Sons (High Wycombe). Also bears special Rocket 150 55p stamp and 3 cachet marks to indicate carriage on the special train.

First Mail by Rail Liverpool & Manchester Rly 11 November 1830 Post Office Commemorative Cover

1980
Air Mail envelope. Great Western Railway. Envelope with a 3d Green GWR Air Mail Stamp addressed to New Malden, Surrey, Per GW Railway Air Service Plymouth - Birmingham. Franked Plymouth (North Road), 5 June 1933, and Erdington, Birmingham, 6 June 1933. 137 x 79mm.

Air Mail envelope. Great Western Railway. Envelope with a 3d Green GWR Air Mail Stamp addressed to New Malden

1933
A North Yorkshire Moors Railway newsletter, entitled The Age of Steam. Dated the 18th January 1994. Relates to the release of the first day covers.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway, newsletter

1994
45 London & North Western Railway parcel stamps. 6 1/2d, yellow stamps; 4 purple, 1d stamps; 7 orange 2 d stamps; 8 brown 3d stamps; 6 blue 4d stamps; 8 blue 6d stamps; 1 red 9d stamp; 7 green 1/- stamps. The envelope in which the stamps are contained states that there were originally 77 stamps: 10 1/2d; 10 1d; 10 2d; 8; 3d; 9 4d; 10 6d; 10 9d; 10 1/-.

45 LNWR railway parcel stamps

Envelope, commemorating the inaugural run of the Silver Jubilee Train, 8 June 1977, Newcastle upon Tyne, No 0403 of a limited edition of 5,000, handed to passengers and posted on the commemorative train.

silver jubilee commemorative cover

1977
Four letter covers, addressed to The Directors of The Stockton & Darlington Railway, Darlington, Shildon Works Co New Shildon, and the owners of Shildon Works near Ferry Hill

Four letter covers

1843-1857
Envelope, commemorating the opening of the National Railway Museum on 27 September 1975, addressed to Dr J A Coiley at the National Railway Museum.

Envelope commemorating the opening of the National Railway Museum

1975
Stamps, commemorative "The Age of Steam", presentation pack issued 18 January 1994, designed by Delaney Design Consultants, printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd, photogravure, PVA gum; 19p stamp, Class 5 No 44957 and Class B1 No. 61343 on West Highland Line; 25p stamp, Class A1 No. 60149 Amadis at Kings Cross; 30p stamp, Class 4 No. 43000 on Turntable at Blyth North; 35p stamp, Class 4 No. 42455 near Wigan Central; 41p stamp, Class Castle No. 7002 Devizes Castle on Bridge crossing Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

The Age of Steam stamps

1994
Envelope addressed to Alex Forbes Esq, Great Northern Railway, Kings Cross, postmarked London SW, with penny red stamp, 18th January 1877.

envelope addressed to alex forbes esq

1877
Parcel stamp, London & North Eastern Railway, from Harrogate, 9d, S4/7656, over stamped ‘British Railways Oct 8th 1952’, fixed to buff coloured wrapping paper with Harrogate address.

London & North Eastern Railway parcel stamp

Proof sheet of 4 NYMR Railway letter stamps. Joined to item 1994-7317/2.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway proof sheet

1994
Album of Railway Company postage stamps - railway company perforations. (Andrews Collection)

Railway stamp album

1817-1900
Envelope, commemorative, showing drawing of diesel locomotive and legend "90 Years of Railway in Eretz Israel", Israel State Railways postmark, and commemorative addition to stamp, 28 March 1974.

commemorative envelope

1974
Postal cover, paper, First Mail by Rail Liverpool & Manchester Rly 11 November 1830 Post Office Commemorative Cover, carried on special train from Liverpool to York via Manchester, 11 November 1980. Issued by the Post Office, designed by Sutherland Hawes & Associates, bearing 5 stamps illustrating the Liverpool & Manchester Railway designed by David Gentleman and printed by Harrison & Sons (High Wycombe). Also bears special Rocket 150 55p stamp and 3 cachet marks to indicate carriage on the special train.

First Mail by Rail Liverpool & Manchester Rly 11 November 1830 Post Office Commemorative Cover

1980
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the 20th Century Limited. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999
First day cover celebrating 100 years of the West Highland line, dated 11 August 1994.

West Highland Line 1894 - 1994

1994
Poster stamps, 'The Book of the Southern Railway', containing forty stamps depicting posters of the Southern Railway, given with the Children's Newspaper, February 23 1935.

The Book of the Southern Railway

1935
Postal cover, paper, Clyde Coast Pullman commemorative postal cover issued by the Locomotive Club of Great Britain. Carried on the Club's Clyde Coast Pullman railtour, 29 June 1974.

Clyde Coast Pullman commemorative postal cover

1974
Stamps, two penny red stamps from Queen Victoria's reign, perforated "GWR" (Great Western Railway).

Stamps, two penny red stamps from Queen Victoria's reign

2 Proof sheets of NYMR Railway letter stamps, a railway NYMR newsletter ,and an envelope covered in 9 first day covers. The object is dated 18 Janurary, 1994, and is post marked N.Y.M.R. Goathland.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway, first day covers

1994
Special Postal Cover, to mark the "Centenary of Glasgow Central Station", 1879 Caledonian Railway, 1979 British Railways, printed and hand franked on paper, card inside with background information.

special postal cover for glasgow central station centenary

1979
First day cover commemorating the 150th anniverdary of the first operation of the locomotive John Bull in America. The envelope was carried in a coach behind the John Bull on 15 September 1981.

First day cover commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first operation of John Bull locomotive

1981
Collection of thematic postage stamps from across the world, covering the years up to and including the year 2000, stored in nineteen hardback albums, each containing twenty-five pages, collected by David Johncock over a period of fifty years using Domfil catalogue as a reference.

collection of thematic postage stamps

Stamp, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire railway prepaid newspaper parcel 5189. 2d.

Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire railway prepaid newspaper parcel