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On the Stamp
A dark engine with yellow lining and a red buffer beam, marked “ZF 1934”, lettered “NR”, with the words “Kalka-Simla” in Hindi and English, on an ₹11 stamp.
The Kalka–Shimla Railway
India Post issued four stamps on 16 April 1993 as Mountain Locomotives, at ₹1, ₹6, ₹8 and ₹11, each showing an engine from one of India’s hill railways. This 2 ft 6 in line was built between 1898 and 1903, under the direction of Herbert Septimus Harington, to link Shimla, the summer capital of British India, with the rest of the railway system. UNESCO added it to the Mountain Railways of India World Heritage Site in 2008. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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