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A class F/1 metre gauge steam locomotive and its tender, in dark green, with the date 1895, on a 50 paise stamp.
The F/1 Steam Locomotive
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 F/1, built both in Britain and in India, was widely used on the metre gauge before independence, among other lines on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway, which became part of the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway.
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