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Epelsa - Mobba issues 2OO1 |
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Ferrocarriles
( 3 ). Locomotora 030, 2103 - Norte 1405 (1861)
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Railways
( 3 ). Steam locomotive 030, 2103 - "Norte" 1405 (1861) |
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Date
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April 2001
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1st know date of use : 9.04.2001, Phil. Service) |
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47 x 27 mm.
- Format type 2 |
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Paper
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Thermal self
adhesive - multicoloured |
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Imprint
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Thermal on
black |
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6 ( Mobba
and Epelsa with 4, 5 and 6 digits ) |
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Design
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FNMT |
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Printer
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FNMT. Fábrica
Nacional de Moneda y Timbre |
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Printing
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50.000.000
of labels |
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on the image to enlarge it |
Third issue of the
ATM set that during 2001 is dedicated to the Railways history in Spain.
The June 3rd., 1855 the Ley
de Ferrocarriles ( Railroads Law ) is approved and, imbued of the
spirit of economic liberalism, definitively adopted the special line wide
of 1.668 mm. and introduced a new reform in the railway concessions that
open them to the foreign capital.
The first of the great railway
societies that operated in Spain were the Compañía
de los Caminos de Hierro del NORTE de España ( Spain
North Iron ways Company ), well known as the Compañía
del NORTE ( North Company ). French majority capital, its
objective were to build the railway connection between Madrid
and the French border of Irún, objective
that was reached in 1864. Later they constructed and operated other railway
sections in North Spain.
The Compañía
del NORTE made its orders of steam locomotives to French
constructors, mainly Schneider & Cie,
from Le Creusot, losing the English
manufacturers the predominance that they had had until then. Between these
orders there are 69 units of type 030 for merchandise. In Spain
one of the main problems of the railway lines was the orographic difficulty,
reason why they need powerful locomotives ; the series 030 and 040,
with three and four axles connected respectively.
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The
locomotive that illustrates this issue would be ; series 030, machine
2103
in the numeration of RENFE and
machine 1405 in the original numeration of NORTE.
( RENFE
-Red
Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles- was created in 1941
with the government intervention and the unification of the different private
railway companies in Spain, and it assumed his railway lines, steam locomotives
and other material ).
Steam
locomotive Series 030. |
We show here some examples
of Cards with the ATM issue Railways - 3.
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| Steam
locomotive 030/2413-2450 ex-Norte 1654-1689 ( 1881 ) |
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As for the other ATM
issues in Spain, there is no First
Day Covers- FDCs,
or commemorative cancellations.
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¿
030, 2103 / 141, 2040 ?
The first group of digits in
the denomination of the locomotives makes reference to the number and
disposition of axles : The first number is the front free axles
; the second, the number of connected axles ; third, the rear
free axles. The second group of numbers is the numeration, that
is made after the number of cylinders. Then, the locomotive 030
- 2103 mean that it's a machine with no front free axles, 3 connected
axles and no rear free axles. It has 2 cylinders and his number is 103...
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the ATM ! |
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and philately
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