Great Britain - GWR150 GWR8- 26,27 & 28 June 1985 - Hereford (ref 047)

This cover comprises one of the  "Exhibition Train" Benham GWR8 covers, dated 26, 27 & 28 June 1985, postmark "Exhibition Train Hereford". Over a period from 29th May 1985 to 29th September 1985, GWR ran an "Exhibition Train" that travelled throughout the GWR region. A Benham cover numbered "GWR8" was produced for each working day of the route. 

The cover is one of a series developed to commemorate the 150^th anniversary of many of the events in the history of GWR. Issued over the period from 22^nd January 1985 to 12^th June 1994, in association with Benham Covers, this series of covers is entitled “The 150th Anniversary of the GWR”, and each cover in the series has a reference number from GWR1 through to GWR43. There are also two mini-series within the overall range ie GWR7 with postmarks for days that special trains ran between Swindon and Gloucester in August and September 1985, and GWR8 which followed the route of the GWR150 Exhibition train from the starting point at Paddington on 29^th May 1985 to its final stop at Hereford on 28^th and 29^th September 1985.

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