Germany-Unified 2012 Locomotives

From Stamps of the World
  • Issue date: 9th August 2012
  • Designed by : Stefan Klein & Olaf Neumann
  • Printed by : Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig, in gummed sheets of 10 (2 x 5)
  • Print Process: lithography
  • Stamp format: height 32.8mm x width 55mm
  • Perforations: 13.75 x 14
  • surcharge to Youth Welfare organisations


55 + 25c ~ S 3/6 express train locomotive (of type built from 1908), set long distance speed record from Hamburg to Munich in 1951
90 + 40c ~ PtL 2/2 (small locomotive operated by single man, used on minor lines of Bavarian State Railways, type constructed 1905-1914)
145 + 55c ~ freight train locomotive of Leopold Friedrich series (named after the Prince of Anhalt), constructed by Borsig from 1865

bulletin illustrations

Germany-Unified 2012 Locomotives a.jpg
Germany-Unified 2012 Locomotives b.jpg
Germany-Unified 2012 Locomotives c.jpg

Sheet stamps

55+25c
90+40c
145+55c