458 4 3 2 1 5 6 7 8 Huberman

  • Issue: September 1992
  • Designer: A. Vanooijen
  • Stamp size: 40 x 25.7 mm
  • Sheet of 4 stamps
  • Printers: E. Lewin-Epstein Ltd.
  • Method of printing: Offset

The Souvenir Sheet is divided into 8 parts with 4 pictures in each part. The following explanation is given right to left:

1. A passenger train conductor; The station clock that was in use during the Palestine Railways period. Today such a clock is in the Railway Museum; Passenger coaches near the platform at the station; A typical bell that was in use at one of the bigger stations. There is one at the Railway Museum now.
Above: A steam engine (0-6-0) and passenger cars that were built in England at the turn of the century. Some of the cars were in service until 1962.

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2. Part of the passenger timetable (1926); A train ticket for the Jaffa-Jerusalem line (before the founding of the State); A renovated passenger car; The interior of a passenger car.
Above: A modern diesel locomotive (2000 hp).

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3. Bar-Giora station; The railway station in Jaffa at the turn of the century; A covered platform at Lod station; A frontal drawing of the station in Jerusalem.
Above: One of the ten articulated railcar-sets which are due to arrive in Israel in the centennial year (1584 hp).

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4. The front of the Jerusalem station; Entrance to the Station Masters office at Lod station; Batir station on the Jaffa-Jerusalem line in 1918; Part of the station building at Bet-Shemesh.
Above: One of eleven railcar-sets built in Germany in the 1950's (1000 hp), which was taken out of service in the late '70s.

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For the rest of the explanations please turn the souvenir sheet round. At the top now: Part of a log book dated 1927 of steam locomotive no. 398 with wheel arrangement 0-6-0 built by LSWR in England in the 1890's. These engines were withdrawn from servic8 during the 1930's.

5. A driver on the toot-plate of a diesel electric locomotive; A maintenance worker on a big diesel-electric locomotive of 2000 hp; A builder-plate of a wagon, built in England in 1911; A typical steam locomotive in the pre-diesel age.
Above: A steam engine which was built in England in 1942 and taken out of service in 1958 (no. 70414), wheel arrangement 2-8-0.

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6. Part of a drawing of the "Baldwin" engine (made in the United States, 1918); Greasing the wheels of a steam engine; A diesel-electric locomotive of the type in service on the line today; A passenger train climbing the bends of the Sorep River on the way to Jerusalem.
Above: A modern engine manufactured in USA (3000 hp).

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7. A junction at Lod station; A mechanical signalling with semaphore arms at Lod station; An electric signalling board in Tel Aviv Central Station, which is meant to be joined to the Jerusalem line this year; A railroad layout map in Lod station.
Above: A steam engine built in Scotland in 1935 (wheel classification 4-6-0).

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8. Mechanical locking points at Lod station; A dwarf (ground) semaphore at Lod station; A staff instrument indicator in a mechanical signalling system ensuring safety on a single track; A "St. Andrews Cross" sign in use at road/rail crossings with more than one track;
Above: One of the first five engines to operate on the line (2-6-0).

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100 years Jaffa - Jerusalem railway line souvenir sheet