Trains On Stamps

The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train") is France's high-speed electric rail service. The LGV Sud-Est (ligne à grande vitesse), linking Paris and Lyon and inaugurated in 1981, was France's and Europe's first high-speed rail line. Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Paris-Lyon TGV mail train, designed by Pierre Forget, printed by photogravure, and issued by France on September 8, 1984, Scott No. 1937.

- nethryk

these are some beautiful stamps. Please keep them coming.

CHILE 2001
150 years of railways in Chile (1851-2001)

RE nethryk 10/20 - The real train, as far as I know, was ORANGE. Odd they did the stamp in yellow. We may need to look into this! :-)

I think when the background is darker rather then brighter the orange comes through. Still kind of light though perhaps. Maybe there are colour varieties!

Now that's orange! Wow. Thanks Nells250.

Nells250 & Puzzler - French TGV mail (La Poste) trains are painted yellow, like the one on the stamp I posted here last week. See pic below. Mystery solved.

- nethryk

Thank you. Very nice pictures all.

Puzzler - You're welcome! I just wish that I had posted the train photo along with the stamp image in my original La Poste post.

Here is an image of a stamp entitled "Transport," designed by Mrs. J.M. Enalim, engraved and printed by Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., and issued for use in Southern Rhodesia on April 15, 1953 as one of a set of five stamps commemorating the Rhodes Centenary, Scott No. 78.

- nethryk

The Rhodesia stamp is notable in appearing to depict the 15th class of Garratt locomotives, a large design not widely used outside the Commonwealth but quite successful in Africa. Entering service starting in 1940, some of them would have been brand new at the time the stamp was issued. They were used in mainline service well into the 1990s, with a few lasting into the mid-2000s, whereas steam declined in use elsewhere starting in the mid-1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes...s_15th_class

WELLWADAYAKNOW!! Wait... hold on... they were still moving mail by rail in France back then?? TWO interesting new factoids to add to my brain!

cjpalermo1964 - Thanks for the addtional information.

Nells250 - Still do, too! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Poste_%28France%29

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a diesel locomotive pulling a train while emerging from a tunnel, and an old town, printed by lithography, and issued by Syria (UAR) on March 15, 1960 to publicize construction of the Latakia-Aleppo railway line, Scott No. 39.

- nethryk

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Diesel locomotive emerging from a tunnel, an airmail stamp designed and engraved by Michel Monvoisin, and issued by Cameroun on June 5, 1968 as one of a set of five stamps publicizing economic development, Scott No. C104.

- nethryk