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CONTENTS P2 Mail Rail Carried Covers P3 Arlington Rail Covers P4-5 Benham P6-7 RHP List P8-9 Buckingham Third Series P10 Scotsman 1969/1970 Tours P12 Collections

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 1 And so we come to the last edition that I haven’t seen today. A few more interesting covers have of Shunters Yard for 2017. been added to the RHP list, and I’ve featured the Benham Channel Tunnel First Day Covers for the first time in a while. With the Buckingham rail covers Some are pairs of covers and some are retail booklet covers, for this year, we’ve commemorated and many have the Folkestone Channel Tunnel running anniversaries of firsts, openings postmark, a rail letter stamp and carried cachet. All in all, an and structures. And many have interesting series to start collecting. surprised us by selling out completely. If you are missing any We are working on a variety of covers for next year, but of the Third series of Buckingham if you have any suggestions either for 2018 or 2019, let Rail, let us know. If you aren’t us know. already on a waiting list, we’ll make sure that you are. And if you aren’t All the best for Christmas and the New Year, already a member, and don’t want to miss out, why not join Best wishes, our Rail Club? (more details on page 8-9)

And so to this edition of Shunter’s Yard. With the Flying Scotsman Tour covers of 1969/70, I’ve come across a few Sarah Griggs December 2017 MAIL RAIL CARRIED COVERS We have had a small number of earlier Underground Railway Covers carried by the new Mail Rail at the National Postal Museum

R83/02C £15 Post Office Underground Railway Cover, carried.

RHP472 £10 5/12/67 Post Office Railway, carried cover.

RHP473 £10 6/12/67 Post Office Railway, Mail Rail carried. RHP474 £10 7/12/67 SET OF Post Office Railway, Mail Rail THREE carried. COVERS £25

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RAL001 £15 RAL007 £15 RAL021 £15 RAL001 3rd July 1969 Arlington commemorative cover RAL026 30th April 1972 Arlington cover for the last for the 31st anniversary of Mallards Speed Record, run of the Brighton Belle, with carried cachet with special Peterborough postmark...... £15 and special Brighton postmark...... £15 RAL005 3rd June 1970 Arlington cover for the 100th RAL027 1st May 1972 Arlington cover for the Opening anniversary of birth of Charles Dickens, with of the Bristol Parkway station with Bristol illustrations of locos named after him, special CDS postmark...... £15 Old Curiosity Shop postmark and Dickens RAL028 13th May 1972 Arlington cover for the South Wales 5d stamp...... £15 Philatelic Convention with special Cardiff postmark and RAL006 11th July 1970 Arlington cover for the illustration of GWR “Cardiff Castle” ...... £15 Nottingham Festival with illustration of “The RAL036 16th September 1972 Arlington cover for the Robin Hood” train and special Nottingham Didcot GWR Open Day with special Didcot Festival postmark...... £15 GWR postmark ...... £15 RAL007 21st August 1970 Arlington cover for the 75th RAL037 30th September 1972 Arlington pair of covers Anniversary of the Railway Race to Aberdeen. for the last scheduled Golden Arrow service. With special Aberdeen postmark...... £15 Both carried, one with RAL012 9th March1971 Arlington cover for the first day postmark & the other with special Victoria of the decimal late fee, with illustration of a SW1 postmark...... £25 19th Century mail coach and a Peterborough- RAL038 1st January 1973 Arlington cover for the 40th Crewe TPO postmark...... £15 anniversary of the electrification of the London to Brighton line, with special Brighton postmark....£15 RAL014 11th April 1971 Arlington cover for the LMS Railway Furness Section, with special postmark RAL040 13th February 1973 Arlington cover for the for the Carnforth Steam Town Gala...... £15 return home of Flying Scotsman, with Liverpool CDS postmark and special cachet...... £15 RAL015 17th August 1971 Arlington cover for the Dart Valley Railway with special Buckfastleigh RAL044 2nd May 1973 Arlington cover for the 50th postmark for the visit of the National Model Anniversary of Flying Scotsman, with special Railroad Association...... £15 Doncaster postmark...... £15 RAL021 26th November 1971 Arlington cover for the centenary RAL045 13th May 1973 Arlington cover for the Standard of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants & Gauge Steam Trust Steam Special with special National Union of Railwaymen, with special NUR Birmingham postmark...... £15 London NW1 postmark...... £15 RAL046 15th May 1973 Arlington cover for the RAL022 30th January 1972 Arlington cover for the Reconstruction of St Albans City Station with 21st Anniversary of First Standard Pacific special St Albans postmark...... £15 Locomotive 7000 “Britannia” with special RAL047 11th July 1973 Arlington cover for the 125th Bridgnorth postmark...... £15 Anniversary of Waterloo Station, with special RAL024 22nd April 1972 Arlington cover for the 125th Waterloo Station postmark...... £15 anniversary of the Caledonian Railway, with RAL049 22nd September 1973 Arlington cover for the illustration of loco 419 and special Stirling Scottish Crewe Works Open Day, with special British Rail Annual Philatelic Congress postmark ...... £15 Engineering Open Day, Crewe postmark...... £15

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CTFDC83 £15 14th January 2003 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers each with 5 stamps and a Channel Tunnel running postmark. CTFDC84 £15 5th December 2002 Benham Channel Tunnel FDC with full set of Wildings stamps, and Channel Tunnel running postmark.

CTFDC89 2nd June 2003 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of FDC with full set of 50th Anniversary of the CTFDC87 £15 Coronation stamps, and Channel Tunnel 25th March 2003 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of FDC with running postmark ...... £15 full set of Fun Fruit and Veg stamps, and Channel Tunnel CTFDC116 10th January 2006 Benham Channel running postmark. Tunnel cover with pair of USA Animal tale stamps & Findlay, OH postmark & Paddington stamp and label and London NW1 postmark...... £10 CTFDC117 7th February 2006 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of England covers with 5 stamps and Channel Tunnel running CTFDC151 £12.50 postmark on each cover...... £15 5th February 2008 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers CTFDC118 23rd February 2006 Benham Channel with 3 Working Dogs stamps and Channel Tunnel running Tunnel pair of Brunel covers with 3 postmark on each cover. stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark on each cover ...... £12.50 CTFDC120 7th March 2006 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers with 5 fun fruit and veg stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark on each cover... £15 CTFDC122 18th April 2006 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers with 2 se-tenant pairs of Queen’s 80th Birthday stamps and Channel Tunnel CTFDC155 £15 15th April 2008 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers with 5 insects running postmark on each cover...... £15 stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark on each cover. CTFDC125 18th July 2006 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers with 5 National Portrait Gallery stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark on each cover... £15 CTFDC132 1st February 2007 Benham Channel Tunnel pair of covers with 6 Sea Life stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark on each cover ...... £15 CTFDC144 4th September 2007 Benham Channel Tunnel cover with 5 British Birds stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark CTFDC168 £12.50 on each cover...... £15 23th May 2000 Benham Channel Tunnel cover with CTFDC150 8th January 2008 Benham Channel Tunnel Queens Stamps miniature sheet and Channel Tunnel pair of covers with full set of James Bond running postmark. stamps and Channel Tunnel running postmark on each cover...... £12.50

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R304 £20 JUST 3 AVAILABLE R305 £15 175th Anniversary of GWR R306 £12.50 150th Anniversary of 100 Years of British Light Railways on the Main Line - London to Bristol. Cholsey and Wallingford Railway. Western Front.

R307 £15 R308 SOLD OUT BUYING R309 SOLD OUT BUYING 175 Years of the London-Brighton railway. 175th Anniversary of Thomas Cook’s first 40th Anniversary of the Inter-City 125 High excursion train. speed Train.

R310 £15 R311 £15 175th anniversary of the R312 SOLD OUT BUYING 150th Anniversary of the Talyllyn Railway. opening of The Edinburgh & Glasgow 150th anniversary Paddington-Penzance Railway. Broad Gauge passenger service.

R313 £15 R314 SOLD OUT BUYING R315 SOLD OUT BUYING 50th anniversary of 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley 150 years of Keighley & Worth Valley The New Postal Museum Underground inaugural run under their owner-ship of Railway. Mail Rail. A4 Preservation Society.

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