Europe - Eastern

Albania

1948 501 Construction of the Durres Tirana Railway

532-534 1949. Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

Bulgaria

418-421 1939. Bulgarian Railways Jubilee. In 421, King Boris is featured as the engine driver. Bulgarian railway history began in 1864 with the turning of the first sod for the Ruse – Varna railway line.

P495 P513 1941. Parcel Post railway mail

774a 1950

953 954 1954. Railway Workers' Day

1449 1450 1964. Railway Transport. Set of 6 1449 - 1454.

1874 1969. Sofia World Philately Exposition

3110-3113 1983. Trevithick's locomotive, Blenkinsop's rack locomotive "Prince Royal", Hedley's "Puffing Billy", first German locomotive "Der Adler"

3494 3496 3497 1988. Set of 6 3493 - 3498.

xxxx xxxx 1991.

Czechoslovakia

545 1949. Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)

768 1953. Gottwald Foundry, Kuncice

946-948 1956. Low denominations. European Timetable Conference for Freight Services. Czech locomotives

949-951 1956. High denominations. European Timetable Conference for Freight Services. Czech locomotives

FDC 1956 Railway Timetable Conference

1222 1961. Kladno steel mills

1453 1964. Czech engineering. Diesel shunter (switcher)

1557-1559 1966. Low denominations. Czech locomotives

1560-1562 1966. High denominations. Czech locomotives

1757 1758 1968 60h 1k Ceske Budevice Linz Ry and Ceske Budevice Pilsen Ry

552 1972. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the completion of the Košice–Bohumín Railway

2051 1972. Slovak Wireworking. Locomotive and Pendant

2186 1974. Commemorating 100 years of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)

2618 1982. Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the UIC, or the International Union of Railways, created in 1922 with the aim of standardizing industry practices

2801 1985 Prague Underground

2850-2853 1986. Development of railways and urban traction

2818 1986. World Expo Vancouver 1986

xxxx 1988. World Stamp Exhibition Praga-88

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Germany (East - DDR Deutsche Demokratische Republik) 1949 to 1990

E296 1957. Leipzig Spring Trade Fair

E397 1958. Day of the Postage Stamp. Modern postal sorting

E536-E538 1960. 125 Years of German Railways

E655 1962. University for Transportation Methods

E1120 1968. Leipzig Fall Fair. Model trains

E1167 1969. Caution at railway crossings

E1576-E1578 1973. Integrated railway equipment construction

E1579-E1581 1973. Integrated railway equipment construction

E1689 1974. Leipzig Fall Trade Fair. Socialist economic integration

E1969 locomotive "Muldenthal" (1861) E1970 Dresden tram (1896) 1977. Dresden Transport Museum

E2043 1978. container transport

E2016 (railway mail car 1896) E2017 (railway mail car 1978) 1978

E2124-E2127 1979. Railway equipment manufactured in the DDR

E2277-E2280 1980. Narrow gauge railways of the DDR. Radebeul-Radeburg (750mm). Bad Doberan-Kühlungsborn (900mm)

E2342-E2345 1981. Narrow gauge railways of the DDR. Freital-Kurort Kipsdorf (750mm). Putbus-Gohren (750mm)

E2509-E2512 1983. Narrow gauge railways of the DDR. Wernigerode-Nordhausen (1000 mm). Zittau-Kurort Oybin/Jonsdorf (750 mm)

E2576-E2579 1984. Narrow gauge railways of the DDR. Cranzahl-Kurort Oberwiesenthal (750 mm). Selketalbahn (1000 mm)

E2677-E2680 1985. Railway evolution

E2725-E2728 1986. Technological Milestones. Dresden horse tram 1886. Leipzig electric tram 1896. Berlin tram 1910. Halle tram 1928

E2939-E2941 1989. 150th anniversary of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway

Greece

410 415 416 1927. Steam train on bridge across the Corinth Canal

1412 1978. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Postal Service. (Translation courtesy Niki Tichakova)

1665 1984. Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Railway in Pilio, a village in Greece. (Translation courtesy Niki Tichakova)

Hungary

1030 1948. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of George Stephenson's death

1089 1082 1950. 5 Year Plan

1138 1950. Second National Industrial Exhibition

1178 1951. International Children's Day. Train on Budapest Pioneer Railway

1247 1248 1952. Railway Day

1419 1426 1955. Celebrating Workers. Railway Guard. Tram conductor

1441 1445 1955. transportation. Multiple diesel unit, Class 20 303 Steam Locomotive

1564-1566 1959. Transport Museum Issue. Steam Locomotive "Deru". Ganz diesel rail-car. Early railway signal

1900-03-05-11-14-17 1963. Transport and Communications

2024 2025 1964. Opening of reconstructed bridges. Arpad and Margaret bridges Budapest with trams

2182 1966. Re-opening of the Transport Museum, Budapest

2273 1967. International Tourist Year

2335 1968. Kálmán Kandó de Egerfarmos et Sztregova (1869 – 1931) was a Hungarian engineer, and a pioneer in the development of electric railway traction

2517 1970. Opening of the Budapest Metro

2603 1971. Commemorating 125 years of Hungarian railways

2647-2654 1972. Celebrating classic steam locomotives

2717 1972. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UIC, or the International Union of Railways, created in 1922 with the aim of standardizing industry practices

D2852 1973. Postage Due

2882 1974. 100 years Universal Postal Union

2946 1975. 30 years of liberation, rebuilding the railways

2964 1975. Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Electro-technical Association

3196 1978. 30 years of the Pioneer Railway, now the "Children's Railway", a narrow gauge railway line in Budapest, which connects Széchényi-hegy and Hűvösvölgy and is 11.2 km long. Except that of the train driver, all of the posts are operated by children aged 10–14 under adult supervision. It is the world's largest Children's Railway

3237-3243 1979. International Transport Exposition, Hamburg, Germany

MS 3271 1979. Commemorating 100 years of the Sopron-Ebenfurt railway

3387 1981 Honouring G. Stephenson

3633 1985. Expo 85, Tsukuba, Japan

3696 1986. The re-opening of the Budapest Castle Hill Funicular Railway. The line was opened on March 2, 1870, and has been in municipal ownership since 1920. It was destroyed in the Second World War and reopened on June 4, 1986