We could not resist these photographs of our Lawley BR7 (SAR NG 106) and sister NG105 that we receiv…

Read more: Our Lawley and her sister in times gone by

Sandstone receives its Railway Safety Regulator operating permit for 2018.

The Railway Safety Regul…

Read more: Railway Safety Regulator Permit

Lukas Nel and his team have now begun the descaling process on the boiler and outer firebox of 113.…

Read more: Boiler repairs on NGG16 number 113

Work has begun on grinding the tube plate at the firebox end of the boiler on 113. This needs to be…

Read more: NGG16 number 113, a first update for 2018.

Our final Steam Report for 2017. Click on the link to see the latest Sandstone Railway news.

From a…

Read more: Our final Steam Report for 2017

This is our last report for 2017 before the workshop in Bloemfontein closes for the holiday break on…

Read more: Update on NGG16 number 113

Lukas Nel and the Bloemfontein team have begun removing the tubes from NGG16 113. Our pictures show…

Read more: The boiler repairs begin on NGG16 number 113.

The transport of live cattle by rail has long faded into history on the South African rail system an…

Read more: Sandstone acquires the last two known G type cattle wagons from Port Elizabeth-Avontuur line.

NGG16 number 113, built by Beyer Peacock in 1939, has been moved to Sandstone’s Bloemfontein Worksho…

Read more: NGG16 Number 113 to be retubed.