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In philately
Philately (; ) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products. While closely associated with stamp collecting and the study of postage, it is possibl ...
a railway stamp is a stamp issued to pay the cost of the conveyance of a letter or parcel by rail.
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 stamp
In philately, a cinderella stamp is a label that resembles a postage stamp, but which is not issued for postal purposes by a government administration. There is a wide variety of cinderella stamps, such as those printed for promotional use by ...
s.
The first railway stamp was issued in England in 1846 for parcels and Belgium has issued railway stamps since 1879.
From 1891 British mainline railway companies issued ''railway letter stamps'' for the conveyance of letters by rail, although that service has now ceased apart from on some small tourist lines.
Railway stamps of Denmark
One of the countries that issued a lot of different railway stamps was Denmark. They were not only issued by ''Danske Statsbaner
DSB, an abbreviation of ''Danske Statsbaner'' (, ''Danish State Railways''), is the largest Denmark, Danish train operating company. It's also the largest train operating company in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train opera ...
'' (Danish State Railways), but also by many local railway companies like Gribskovbanen
The Gribskov Line or the Gribskov Railway () is a local passenger railway line in North Zealand north of Copenhagen, Denmark.
The line runs north from Hillerød through the Gribskov forest and splits into two branches to the seaside resort towns ...
(GDS), Hads-Ning Herreders Jernbane (HHJ) and Odsherreds Jernbane (OHJ). The listing is based on the DFBK Catalogue 2011 (DFBK: Dansk Fragt- og Banemaerkeklub).
See also
*Parcel stamp
In philately a parcel stamp is a stamp specifically issued to pay the fee for the transport of a parcel through the postal system and usually marked as such. It is to be distinguished from a postage stamp used to pay the cost of posting a par ...
* Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps
References
Further reading
* (Reprint, 1983 by Tim Clutterbuck & Co.) * *External links
{{Commons category, Railway stampsAustralia and New Zealand Railway Parcel Stamps.
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