A silhouette of the late Queen Elizabeth II will appear on new stamps for the final time, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Flying Scotsman.
Royal Mail and the National Railway Museum will release the collection on March 9, reports the Mirror. A special edition of the stamps features 12 images of the famous train in various locations, including the North Yorkshire Moors and London Victoria.
Four more stamps in a smaller sheet will showcase railway poster art from the 1920's and 1930's. The side profile silhouette of the Queen has been on all special stamps since 1968, and was adapted from a 1953 design by sculptor Mary Gillick.
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The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is a 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works.
The 70ft train retired from regular service in 1963, after covering more than two million miles in its tenure.
The 12-stamp set features the National Railway Museum’s Flying Scotsman in various locations across the UK, including:
- Pickering Station on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
- In the Yorkshire Dales National ParK
- Crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Steaming through the town of Blyth in Northumberland
- In a blizzard at Heap Bridge on the East Lancashire Railway
- Crossing the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed
- At London’s Victoria Station
- In close-up at Shildon, County Durham
Four more stamps will be presented in a miniature sheet, and shows images of Flying Scotsman and London North Eastern Railway (LNER) poster artwork from the 1920s and 1930s.
One of these special stamps features Edinburgh's famous Mons Meg, in a new art style with Edinburgh: Travel By LNER East Coast Route also printed on it.
These stamps will be the final ones produced by Royal Mail to feature the late monarch.
All 12 stamps in a Presentation Pack go on general sale from March 9, and have been priced at £17.70.
The stamps are now available to pre-order on the Royal Mail website now.
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