The Sydney Harbour Bridge on Stamps, Postal Stationery and Postmarks: Olympics 2000 Miniature Sheet 'Omnibus'.

Opened in 1932 as a combined road / rail bridge, Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the premier icons of Australia. It appears on numerous postage stamps, miniature sheets ( including sheet borders ), several items of postal stationery, a Parcel label and even a Commemorative Telegram.
Unlike many of the railway articles, this is an ongoing project, as new issues will, no doubt, continue to appear. I hope it is reasonably complete, but please let me know of anything omitted or when anything new appears.

Gutter Pairs: Many of the Australian stamps exist in gutter ( interpanneau ) pairs. I have included information on these only for the inaugural 1932 issue and later issues where the gutter is pictorial. I have only included one or two catalogue numbers ( SG ), where such detail might help to identify a stamp.

The scans in this article are immediately ABOVE the stamp, stationery or postmark descriptions. The listing has been produced in five sections:

Section 1 : Stamp Issues of Australia
Section 2 : Numerous worldwide m/s for Olympics 2000 with identical central label with the Bridge
Section 3 : Other world stamp issues
Section 4 : Postal Stationery and a Telegram
Section 5 : Postmarks relating to the Bridge.

A feature of the stamps of the Bridge is that only one of them actually shows a train - or even the tracks, and the one that does, 2004 50c, shows only a distant view of a train. So, to illustrate the railway properly, please find below a very pleasing portrait of a train leaving the Bridge, reproduced by kind permission of Maikha Ly of Australia. Please note that his photograph is copyright.

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K98 rolls off the bridge on a Hornsby bound service - 20-11-2002 - by Maikha Ly

Section 2 : Olympics 2000 Miniature Sheet 'Omnibus'

A number of countries issued Olympic 2000 miniature sheets with the same central, pictorial view of the Bridge ( although the stamps in each sheet are different ). Some of these m/s exist imperforate; perhaps all of them do. I have marked those I know to exist Imperf with ' ** ' and an additional check-box

[ . . ] Antigua (& Barbuda?) ** [ . . ]
[ . . ] Barbuda ?
[ . . ] Bhutan
[ . . ] Burkina Faso

[ . . ] Dominica
[ . . ] The Gambia ** [ . . ]
[ . . ] Ghana
[ . . ] Grenada

[ . . ] Grenada Grenadines
[ . . ] Guyana ** [ . . ]
[ . . ] Lesotho ** [ . . ]
[ . . ] Maldive Islands
[ . . ] Micronesia

[ . . ] Nevis
[ . . ] Palau
[ . . ] St. Vincent
[ . . ] Sierra Leone
[ . . ] Turks & Caicos Islands

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