1973 Steam Locomotives
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Cat. |
Mint Unhinged |
Fine Used |
3c |
"W" Class Tank Locomotive / First Steam Engine Built 1889 |
190a |
$0.45 |
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$0.45 |
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4c |
"X" Class Locomotive / First Four Cylinder Compound |
190b |
$0.45 |
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$0.45 |
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5c |
"Ab" Class Locomotive / "Passchendale" |
190c |
$0.50 |
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$0.90 |
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10c |
"Ja" Class Locomotive / Last Steam Engine Built |
190d |
$3.60 |
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$3.60 |
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Set of 4 |
190e |
$4.75 |
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$5.15 |
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First Day Cover - 4 April 1973 |
190f |
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$4.50 |
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… Four Stamps : 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 The last steam locos had been withdrawn from service in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the time it was withdrawn from service in 1967, it had steamed more than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when it was withdrawn.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
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