CRAMPTON locomotive, train Paris - Strasbourg. Stamp issued by La Poste, France, 2001. Postcard

CRAMPTON locomotive
train Paris - Strasbourg

Postcard published by La Poste Museum, 2021,
with reproduction of a stamp issued by La Poste, France, on 09.07.2001.

Crampton is a type of steam locomotive designed by Thomas Russell Crampton and built by various firms from 1846. Crampton locomotives were more popular in France. One of the French examples has been preserved in the Cité du Train at Mulhouse and is still in working order. This is number 80 of the Chemin de Fer de l'Est, the Paris-Strasbourg line, which is named "Le Continent".

Merci à Gilles K.