Classic Locomotives of Northern Ireland (Miniature Sheet MZ093)

• Issue Date: 18 June 2013. For use as postage stamps and philately.
• Stamp Book - Features two First Class stamps from the Special issue, together with four First Class Machin Definitives. Unlike the Miniature Sheet stamps, which are printed by lithography and gummed, the Special Stamps here are self-adhesive and printed in gravure.
• Miniature Sheet - This dramatic Miniature Sheet features all four Classic Locomotives of Northern Ireland stamps, together with a fabulous photograph of the UTA Class Z No. 27 Lough Erne crossing Larne Lough in 1968 in its border.
• Presentation Pack - In this fully illustrated Presentation Pack, which includes the Classic Locomotives of Northern Ireland Miniature Sheet and a wealth of wonderful archive images, Norman Johnston offers a host of fascinating insights into Northern Ireland’s railways during its own golden age of steam.
• Stamp Cards - Each of these glorious stamps, together with the Miniature Sheet itself, has been reproduced at postcard size, enabling you to enjoy every riveting detail of these superb archive images.

1st Class – UTA W Class No. 103 UTA Class W No.103 'Thomas Somerset' with a Belfast-bound up express between the two tunnels at Downhill, west of Castlerock c1950. 78p – UTA SG3 Class No. 35 The SG3 Class locomotive shunts wagons at Portadown in 1963.. 88p – Peckett No. 2 Peckett No.2 reverses wagons into the British Aluminum works at Larne in 1937. £1.28 – CDRJC Class 5 No. 4 The Class 5 locomotive Meenglas shunts a carriage at Strabane in 1959.