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Mountain Locomotives: Nilgiri Mountain Railway, 1993 stamp

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Commemorative Stamp
16 April 1993

Mountain Locomotives: Nilgiri Mountain Railway

An X class rack engine of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway.

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Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue April 16, 1993

Denomination Rs. 8

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½ x 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1389 Stamp Number IN 1445 Yvert et Tellier IN 1188 Stanley Gibbons IN 1539

Themes Locomotives, Railways

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A black and green rack engine on a steep gradient, marked “X 1914”, with the words “Nilgiri Mountain Railway” in Hindi and English, on an ₹8 stamp.

The Nilgiri Mountain 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 metre-gauge line in Tamil Nadu, reaching Fernhill in 1908, is the only rack railway in India. UNESCO added it to the Mountain Railways of India World Heritage Site in 2005. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.