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The newest updates are always listed on the Index
Page of this website, older entries will be transferred on a regular
basis to this Revision History Page
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October 28, 2011. Finally I can show a complete
booklet pane of RP-5,
another stamp (RP-3) with postmark of
Bat-Hah,
a fragment with the postmark of
Nasiriyah,
a stamp with postmark of
Baiji
and additional items have been added for
Kirkuk
and
Maqil.
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April 6, 2011. The mystery about locations of the railway stations
Khadimain
and
Al Juwadain
is finally solved.
Based on an old railway map they are indeep
2 different railway stations
in Khadimain area of Baghdad.
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January 14, 2011. Images of Hillah, Kurdarah and Tikrit Railway
stations have been added. You find them on the
Post Offices, Stations
/ Halts page
under the respecitve station name.
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(Oktober 8, 2010). The menue on these pages has been modifed and a
very easy to use (and modify) menue written in javascript has been
implimented. However, you need to have javascript enabled on your
browser.
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A 1928 cover from
Hindiyah
has been added
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A 1929 cover with
Shuaiba Junction
postmark has been added.
However, that cover has raised some questions.
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A cover with a fake
Hamza
postmark has been added.
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Postmarks from
Baghdad North,
Iftikhar,
Khidhr
and a cover from Khidhr with a
routing label
have been added.
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A 1928 stamps, type
RP-1 with perforation
on the left side instead of the usual pin-perforation.
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A postcard sent from
Multaka Ur (Ur
Junction)
to Baghdad.
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A
Postmark
from Ali Serai has been added.
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The Location of the
Ghuchan
railway station has finally been confirmed.
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A new Page I like to introduce with
questions and
mysteries
related to the Iraq Railway which I like to have solved.
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A picture from the 1920th. showing the
Balad
railway station building has been added.
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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...
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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.
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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
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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)
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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)
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