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On the Stamp
GIP No. 1, a small green steam locomotive with a tall chimney, and its tender, with the date 1853, on a ₹2 stamp.
GIP No. 1
India Post issued four stamps on 15 May 1976 on Indian locomotives, from the engines of the first train of 1853 to the diesels of the 1960s. India’s first passenger train ran from Bombay to Thana on 16 April 1853; Chittaranjan began building steam locomotives in 1950, and the Diesel Locomotive Works at Varanasi its first diesels in 1964. The engines of that first train, run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, came from England; GIP No. 1 was among the earliest locomotives in India.
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