1973 Steam Locomotives
| | Cat. |
Mint Unhinged |
Fine Used |
3c |
"W" Class Tank Locomotive / First Steam Engine Built 1889 |
190a |
$0.45 |
|
$0.45 |
|
4c |
"X" Class Locomotive / First Four Cylinder Compound |
190b |
$0.45 |
|
$0.45 |
|
5c |
"Ab" Class Locomotive / "Passchendale" |
190c |
$0.90 |
|
$0.90 |
|
10c |
"Ja" Class Locomotive / Last Steam Engine Built |
190d |
$4.50 |
|
$4.50 |
|
| |
|
Set of 4 individual stamps |
190e |
$6.00 |
|
$6.00 |
|
| |
|
First Day Cover - 4 April 1973 |
190f |
|
|
$4.50 |
|
| ... 3c (190a), 4c (190b), 5c (190c), 10c (190d) |
This stamp issue features four New Zealand steam locomotives. The last
steam locos had been withdrawn from service in 1971.
The 3 cent
stamp features a "W" Class Tank Locomotive, the first engine
built in the New Zealand Railways Workshops in 1889.
The 4 cent
stamp has an "X" Class Locomotive which were among the first four
cylinder compound locomotives built in the world.
The 5 cent stamp
features "Passchendale", an "Ab" Class Locomotive named
"in memory of those members of the New Zealand Railways who fell in
the Great War".
The Ab 'Pacifics' were the most
successful and versatile locomotives run on New Zealand railways. 141 were
built between 1915 and 1926.
Passchendaele (AB 608) was built at the
Addington Workshops in Christchurch, and featured at the New Zealand and
South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin in the summer of 1925-26. It pulled the
Duke and Duchess of York’s royal train in 1927 and the Prince of
Wales in 1920.
By the time it was withdrawn from service in 1967, it
had steamed more than 2.4 million kilometres.
The 10 cent stamp
features Ja 1274, the last steam locomotive built by New Zealand Railways
in Dunedin. The locomotive spent most of its working life based in Dunedin,
and was gifted to the city when it was withdrawn. The locomotive is housed
in a glass shelter outside the Otago Early Settlers Museum.
Bibliography
The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volume VI |
Edited by D. E. G. Naish FRPSNZ and K. J. McNaught FRPSNZ FRPSL |
Publsihed 1975 by The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Incorporated |
Pages 187 - 188 |
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