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A locomotive at the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, on an 8 annas stamp.
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
On Republic Day, 26 January 1955, India issued a new series of eighteen definitive stamps, from 3 pies to 10 rupees, on the theme of the First Five Year Plan: the farms, dams, crafts, industries and landscapes of the new republic. They were printed by photogravure at the Security Printing Press, Nashik, on paper watermarked with stars. The 8 annas stamp shows the Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in West Bengal, which built its first steam locomotive, the Deshbandhu, in 1950 and made India self-reliant in railway engines.
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