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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
Railways through stamps

Railways through stamps

1950-1960
Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

Flying Scotsman USA Tour 1969 commemorative envelope

1969
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
Stamp presentation pack, Famous Trains

Stamp presentation pack, Famous Trains

First Day Cover commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 4472

First Day Cover commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 4472

02/05/1973
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
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
Flying Scotsman Aus. Steam 1988

Flying Scotsman Aus. Steam 1988

1988
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 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
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
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
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
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

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

Railway stamp album

1817-1900
Proof sheet of 4 NYMR Railway letter stamps. Joined to item 1994-7317/2.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway proof sheet

1994
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
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
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
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

Letter cover addressed to The Directors of The Stockton & Darlington Railway, Darlington.

letter covers

1843-1857
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
First day cover, Silver Jubilee National Rail Museum, India, 1971-1996, stamped 7th October 1996.

Silver Jubilee National Rail Museum, India

1996
Newspaper parcel stamp, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway for 2d, prepaid, marked 'at owners risk', diamond shaped, on blue paper, No.1, dimensions 74 x 60mm.

newspaper parcel stamp

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
Letter cover addressed to the owners of Shildon Works near Ferry Hill.

letter covers

1843-1857
Letter cover addressed to the owners of Shildon Works near Ferry Hill signed Thomas Baker June 1st 1857.

letter covers

1843-1857
Envelope, commemorative, celebrating the centenary year of Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and The National Union of Railwaymen 1871-1971; with postmark of NUR badge and drawings of Metropolitan District Railway Beyer Peacock 4-4-0 tank engine built 1871 and the Advanced Passenger Train, includes card with brief details of formation of society and LNER London-Kings Cross Flying Scotsman roundel.

commemorative envelope re asrs centenary

1971
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
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, 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, commemorative, produced by H & J Milne, Linton Railway Station, on the occasion of opening of the National Railway Museum; with commemorative Post Office stamps bearing railway designs; franked National Railway Museum, York Opening 27 September 1975.

commemorative envelope re opening of nrm

1975
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the Congressional. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999
Newspaper parcel stamp, Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway for 4.d, prepaid, marked 'at owners risk', rectangular in shape, on orange paper, No.1/ 9991, dimensions 44 x 31mm.

newspaper parcel stamp

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts Hiawatha. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999
First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives - stamp depicts the Super Chief. Issued 27 August 1999.

First day cover celebrating 20th century streamlined locomotives

1999