4AR number 1555
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Work has now begun on the stripping and cleaning of the second locomotive for the Transnet tender at…
Further progress on the NG10 at Bloemfontein.
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The locomotive continues to take shape as the brass boiler bands have now been fitted and work is we…
Preserving the best of our past for the future.
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Sandstone’s motto is never forgotten and a recent auction at Belfast saw us put it into action with…
NG10 number 61.
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Work has progressed with this restoration with completion of the fitment of the running boards toget…
Cosmetic Restoration of NZASM “B” number 230
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The stripping, cleaning and painting of this locomotive is now complete at Bloemfontein. All the loo…
The two portable engines from Sigisi Sawmill.
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These two donations from Sigisi Sawmill have been collected from the mill near Kokstad and transport…
Sandstone’s Waterloo Boy at NAMPO 2018
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John Deere celebrates 100 years in 2018 and one of the earliest examples of a John Deere tractor in…
NGG13 number 49 arrives at Germiston.
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The boiler section of number 49 has now arrived in Johannesburg at Reefsteamers where it was offload…
Latest Steam Report 15 May 2018
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The latest steam report from the Steam Team at Sandstone - Click here to view
International Museum Day 2018
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Sandstone Heritage Trust via its museum status is a member of the South African Museum Association…
Photographic exhibition on May 24th
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Sandstone has a long association with the James Hall Museum of Transport and they have extended an i…
NGG13 Number 49 Boiler Retube
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The second of our Garratt locomotives to require retubing, NGG13 number 49, had had its boiler secti…
The worlds largest traction engine.
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A replica of the world’s largest traction engine ever built, the Case 150HP of 1904, is nearing com…
NG10. Whereto the windows?
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We have many photographs of NG10 number 61 in service in Port Elizabeth thanks to Leith Paxton who e…
NG10 - Fitting the running boards.
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The NG10, being USA built, has a few quirks compared with the primarily European built locos used on…
The Maize Queue.
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The loading area at Sandstone was very busy the other day with the loading of 1000 tons of yellow ma…