Railway stamp

In philately a railway stamp is a stamp issued to pay the cost of the conveyance of a letter or parcel by rail.

The first railway stamp was issued in England in 1846 for parcels[1] and Belgium has issued railway stamps since 1879.

[2] From 1891 British mainline railway companies issued railway letter stamps for the conveyance of letters by rail, although that service has now ceased apart from on some small tourist lines.

[3] One of the countries that issued a lot of different railway stamps was Denmark.

They were not only issued by Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways), but also by many local railway companies like Gribskovbanen (GDS), Hads-Ning Herreders Jernbane (HHJ) and Odsherreds Jernbane (OHJ).