Descending from the sky.
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We had some interesting visitors at Sandstone when a group of seven Gyrocopter pilots from all over…
The restoration of Class 4AR
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The restoration of Class 4AR number 1555 foe Transnet Foundation.
The locomotive and tender have now…
NG10 update 6 June 2018
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Work continues on the cab and its fittings with the installation of the cab surround and the window…
One score and ten!
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The Sandstone Oxen team have reached another milestone with the inspanning of 30 Oxen during a train…
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…