This is the only book in Australia to cover our pictorial and commemorative postmarks with trains and trams as a theme
See below for sample pages.
This book is around 100 pages and no less than 48 of them are in full, glorious colour, including a lift-out A3 map of Australia's rail network.Listed you will find:
a brief time-line of trains in Australia, and a short history of trams;
a listing of all locations and dates at which the Royal Train stopped and used postmarks in 1934;
every pictorial and commemorative postmark from 1934 to 2004 depicted;
a glossary of Australian Railway Slang;
a listing of Railway Interest Groups, nationally and state-by-state, along with
a bibliography and comprehensive index.
We know the authors extremely well (OK, I confess - I'm actually one of them!) and we will not only sign the book for you, but put a personalised message in it if you want (see below for some samples) - a great Christmas or birthday gift for the railway enthusiast in your family!
. This map clearly details Australia's major railway networks.
A sampling of some of the covers available, along with the time-line of trains in Australia.
Illustrated below is a cover with the 1934 Royal Train cancel and the Last Tram mail of Sydney cover.
Detailed information about the Great Southern Railway and the Centenary of the first railway service in Tassie are illustrated below.
Mt Isa got in on the act (left) and Street Public Transport was celebrated in Adelaide in 1978. The rare-ish purple cachet shown.
Invermay first produced a great train pictorial in 1979 and the maximum cards 1979 style weren't half bad either.
Anniversaries, Openings, Jubilees - all depicted in this book if it involved trams or trains.
South Australian Philatelic Societies do some great things with philatelic memorabilia (left).
The PSE that started the great overprinted PSE frenzy.
Stunning covers were produced by the AHRS for the Centenary of Gladstone.
The AHRS were responsible for a lot of the overprinted PSEs in the 1980s.
Another of the beautiful AHRS covers.
You'll be happy if you've got all these AHRS covers. Gorgeous series! The one illustrated below was No.6.
Railway people are clever at variations on cover.
And who doesn't have some Puffing Billy in their thematic railway collection?
Korumburra and "The Overland" feature here, including one signed by Arthur Bergen.
The Perth-Yarloop-Boyanup ones could be a little difficult to come by these days. And Sydney's monorail isn't forgotten.
Gotta love those trams!
This book was originally used as part of an exhibition titled Stampspotting—150 Years of Australian Railways at Australia's National PostMaster Gallery in Melbourne in 2004.
We are sure you'll enjoy having it on your library shelf.
