"Anna" steams for her first run

"Anna" steams for her first run

After being moved to the Hoekfontein workshops from Bloemfontein recently, ex-Angola O&K 0-6-0T No: 12140, “Anna” made her first test run after her boiler inspection as part of the commissioning process for the locomotive. The O&K is named “Anna” after the wife of Lukas Nel, head of Sandstone’s Bloemfontein Workshop.

Our pictures from Gert Jubileus show her steaming towards Hoekfontein Station with the newly erected station water tank in the background.

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