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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 4 Sunday 22nd November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 4 Sunday 22nd November 2020.

The final day of our very successful Spring Festival with a wrap up gallery for the day.

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 3 Saturday 21st November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 3 Saturday 21st November 2020.

The third day of our Spring Festival. Our gallery shows more visitors together with a fly in guest t…

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 2 Saturday 20th November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 2 Saturday 20th November 2020.

The second day of our Spring Festival. Our gallery shows more visitors today with NGG16 number 153 o…

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 1 Friday 19th November 2020.

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Last Updated: 20 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 1 Friday 19th November 2020.

Today was the first day of our Spring Festival. Although the Cherry Festival did not happen this yea…

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NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 11. November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 11. November 2020.

Work continues on number 155 with the fitment of the ex 3’6’ gauge GMA/M mechanical lubricator. Our…

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The Spring Steam Festival

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Last Updated: 04 November 2020
  The Spring Steam Festival

The Spring Steam Festival has been gaining momentum with more coverage in the media. You can see wh…

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“Where to private rail use in SA”

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Last Updated: 04 November 2020

While Sandstone is world renowned for its 2ft narrow gauge railway, many supporters may not be aware…

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The Spring Steam Festival

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Last Updated: 21 October 2020
The Spring Steam Festival

The Spring Steam Festival has been gaining momentum with extensive coverage in the media. You can s…

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Sandstone wins the Pioneer Weigh and Win Maize Yield Competition

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Last Updated: 19 October 2020
Sandstone wins the Pioneer Weigh and Win Maize Yield Competition

Sandstone wins the Pioneer Weigh and Win Maize Yield Competition for the EFS region and achieves 2nd…

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NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 10. October 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 10. October 2020.

Work has continued on NGG16A since our last report with the cab fittings installed and the water tan…

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The Sandstone Spring Steam Festival 19-22 November 2020

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Last Updated: 08 October 2020
The Sandstone Spring Steam Festival 19-22 November 2020

Sadly the Cherry Festival will not be held in Ficksburg in 2020 due to the Covid 19 pandemic but a…

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Latest Stock List

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Last Updated: 21 May 2021
Latest Stock List

The Sandstone stock list has been updated to correct some changes in the location of some items - C…

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A new book on the Port Elizabeth to Avontuur 2ft Narrow Gauge

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
A new book on the Port Elizabeth to Avontuur 2ft Narrow Gauge

A new book on the Port Elizabeth to Avontuur 2ft narrow gauge line will be published in October. Th…

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Heritage News for 2020

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Last Updated: 15 September 2020
Heritage News for 2020

Welcome to our first Heritage News for 2020.


The Covid 19 Pandemic has changed the way we work and…

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NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 9. July 2020

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 9. July 2020

After the return of the boiler from Wonder Steam in Pretoria the locomotive has been re assembled wi…

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NGG13 number 50 in Texas.

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
NGG13 number 50 in Texas.

Garratt Bucher and his father, Robert, are good friends of Sandstone sharing a South African 2ft nar…

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  1. Sandstone and Geoff Trains.
  2. Reflections on June 16th
  3. Updated Steam Railway Stock List
  4. NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 8. June 2020

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Cherry Steam Festival 2022

Although Covid is no longer an issue, we were obviously unable to host the number of events that we…

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The story of one plate.

We recently featured, on the 19th May, the presentation of a large Skoda works plate by Svatopluk (…

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Oxen and the Soya harvest, an historical approach. A real step back in time!

Recent weather events at Sandstone Estates led to a unique harvesting approach for the Soya crop fro…

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A present from Skoda.

One of Sandstone’s long time European supporters is Svatopluk Slechta, an engineer from the Czech Re…

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The Star Drilling Machine.

 

Sandstone has two of these fascinating steam powered drilling machines. Both are with a rest…

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Intrepid Travellers visit Sandstone

Torsten and Ilona Eggert from Germany arrived at Sandstone on Freedom Day, 27th April, with their Ha…

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Stirling Engines.

 

Keith Simmons has been a regular visitor to Sandstone for many years and assisted us with so…

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