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A wide variety of railway stamps have been issued by different countries and by private and state railways. Railway stamps of an unofficial or semi-official type are considered cinderella stamps. The first railway stamp was issued in England in 1846 for parcels [1] and Belgium has issued railway stamps since 1879. [2] From 1891 British mainline ...
New Zealand's first revenues were imperforate long designs portraying Queen Victoria and inscribed STAMP DUTY NEW ZEALAND. This series was issued on 1 January 1867, however some copies are known used in December 1866. [3] [4] In all, the first set consisted of seventy eight stamps with denominations ranging from 1d to £10. In May 1867, these ...
A Belgian railway parcel stamp from the 1879-82 series used in 1881 at Verviers. British Great Western Railway newspaper parcel stamps. These are regarded as cinderella stamps. A British 1901 parcel label with two Victorian stamps overprinted Govt. Parcels. Road transport private parcel service stamps from Great Britain. Circa mid twentieth ...
Arguably, New Zealand's rarest postage stamp is the 1949 HMS Vanguard threepence stamp, intended for issue as part of a set of four stamps (2d, 3d, 5d, and 6d) commemorating a royal visit. When the visit was cancelled, all copies of the stamps were ordered to be destroyed, but a small number—possibly as few as seven—of the 3d value survived ...
In 1870, the central government took effective control of railway development from the provinces of New Zealand. To unify all rail systems operating in the colony, and to ease the cost of construction, the national rail gauge was set at a narrow gauge of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6.0 in).
The Railways of New Zealand: A Journey through History (Second ed.). Transpress New Zealand. ISBN 0-908876-20-3. Hermann, Bruce (1997). South Island Branch Lines: Pictorial Memories. Wellington: New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society. ISBN 0-908573-70-7. Leitch, David; Scott, Brian (1995). Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways (1998 ed ...
Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of 4,375.5 km (2,718.8 mi) of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries.
The North Island Main Trunk (NIMT) is the main railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, connecting the capital city Wellington with the country's largest city, Auckland. The line is 682 kilometres (424 mi) long, built to the New Zealand rail gauge of 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) and serves the large cities of Palmerston North and Hamilton .