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Iraq Railway stamps, not much is known about them and they are very rarely collected. Most likely reason being since they are almost unknown to collectors.

With these pages I try to make other stamps collectors aware of them, maybe some collector are having such items in their duplicates, unaware of what the have.

I am thankful for any information you might have regarding these stamps and their usage.

What's new:

• A 1298 cover from Hindiyah has been added

• A 1929 cover with Shuaiba Junction postmark has been added. However, that cover has raised some questions.

• A cover with a fake Hamza postmark has been added.

• Postmarks from Baghdad North, Iftikhar, Khidhr and a cover from Khidhr with a routing label have been added.

• A 1928 stamps, type RP-1 with perforation on the left side instead of the usual pin-perforation.

• A postcard sent from Multaka Ur (Ur Junction) to Baghdad.

• Images of booklet covers from the RP-1 and RP-5 stamps were added.

• A Postmark from Ali Serai has been added.

• The Location of the Ghuchan railway station has finally been confirmed.

• A new Page I like to introduce with questions and mysteries related to the Iraq Railway which I like to have solved.

• A picture from the 1920th. showing the Balad railway station building has been added.

• A newspaper clipping of the most likely first appearance of the Iraq Railway stamps in the philatelic press has been added on the Literature and Links page...

• To my big surprise, in the 2007/2008 edition of the German Michel Middle East Catalogue there is a  footnote and some images. Not very much but after intensive lobbying by the author it is at least a beginning.

• My own article "Iraq Railway Post 1928 - c. 1942", published in the October 2007 issue of "The American Philatelist", the monthly publication of the American Philatelic Society. Permission granted by APS

• Who can identify this railway station from Baghdad? Baghdad had 4 Railway Stations but unfortunately on the card it is only mentioned Baghdad Station. (SOLVED, It is Baghdad-West)

• A beautiful article from the April 1928 issue of "The Railway magazine" which included a 1928 railway map has been added. (PDF Format, 6,60 MB)