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The Iraq Directory, a general and commercial Directory of Iraq with a supplement for the neighboring countries, issue of 1936, gives following reference to the Railway Post letters:

Ordinary letters or postcards may be handed in at most railway stations in Iraq to be forwarded by the first available passenger train to other railway stations or to other Post Offices in Iraq for delivery or onward transmission by post to any foreign country.

This service affords a convenient means of dispatching letters from places situated at some distance from a Post Office or for forwarding letters at time when local Post Offices are closed.

The charges on railway Post letters are as follows:

1. Inland Service: The ordinary Inland postage for a letter or postcard as the case may be plus a special railway fee of 10 files.

2. Foreign Service: The ordinary foreign postage for a letter or postcard as the case may be plus a special railway fee of 10 files. Railway post letters and postcards may also be posited for transmission by air on payment of the air mail fee in addition to the postage and railway fee.

The limit of weight for a railway post letter is 80 grams.

Full particulars of this service may be obtained at any Post Office or Railway Station.

In 1930, 55 Railway stations and the GPO in Baghdad were authorised to accept such mail. Most cancelled by the 31 mm octagonal dark blue or violet station handstamp.

I have added a new section in the Iraq Stamps Gallery under Revenues and called it Railway Stamps, there I will put specifically items which fall into this category based on the Revenues Catalogue.

If you have more information or have a collection of Railway Stamps you would like to add to our online album, please use the contact us page.

Taken with permission from Rainer Fuchs, owner of Rainer's Iraq Railway website.

Written by ahmed zaki

The 1919 Mosul issue 2 1/2 Annas with the error no bar to fraction, listed in stanley gibbons, only I believe that this stamp was printed as normal, then altered by removing the bar. the process is very difficult, here the person have done a bad job, such work could have been much easier and harder to detect on new issues, only with an 80 years old stamp, it is not as easy.

I have provided here the scan of the original post (above), and a photoshop attempt to clarify the differences,  the deletion process of the over print damaged the original stamp as well, you can see no yellow lines, no pruple lines anymore like the original.

Big version of the real no bar stamps