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On the Stamp
A blue tank engine with a red buffer beam and yellow cab, marked “ML 1905”, with the words “Neral Matheran” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The Neral–Matheran 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 line was built between 1901 and 1907 by Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy, with money from his father, Sir Adamjee Peerbhoy, who often visited Matheran. The two-foot-gauge line runs for 21 km from Neral up into the Western Ghats and is on UNESCO’s tentative list of World Heritage Sites. 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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