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On the Stamp
The badge of the South Eastern Railway against the towers of a blast furnace, with the words “Centenary of South Eastern Railway 1887–1987” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Railway of Steel
India Post issued four stamps on 28 March 1987, at ₹1, ₹1.50, ₹2 and ₹4, for the centenary of the South Eastern Railway. The line traverses six states, and India Post’s folder calls it the core railway for the core sector: the steel plants of Tatanagar, Rourkela, Bhilai, Bokaro and Burnpur all lie on it. In the previous year it had carried 89 million tonnes of freight, a third of what Indian Railways loaded.
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