About this stamp
On the Stamp
Two historic steam locomotives, one green and one red, beside a semaphore signal, with the museum building in a panel above them, the figure 25 and the years 1971–1996, and the words “Silver Jubilee National Rail Museum” in Hindi and English, on a ₹5 stamp.
National Rail Museum
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 7 October 1996, 25 years to the day after President V. V. Giri laid the foundation stone of the National Rail Museum at Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. The museum opened on 1 February 1977. Its collection includes the Patiala State Monorail of 1907 and the Fairy Queen, the world’s oldest working steam locomotive in operational service. 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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