Old Glory March 2023

Our upcoming Easter Steam and Cosmos Festival, in April 2023, has received a couple of mentions in the latest edition of Old Glory magazine together with a short write up on our Cherry Festival Event last November. One article is in the Vintage World section by Derek Rayner, which also covers a story on a South African Aveling & Porter portable engine at Springs near Johannesburg. The main magazine also features the new Sandstone book, “The Sandstone Steam Railway, the story continues”  which receives a favourable review. Our thanks to Old Glory magazine for this excellent coverage!
Click the below links to read more:
Old Glory Magazine Link 1
Old Glory Magazine Link 2

Sandstone Heritage Museum is a member of the South African Museums Association and has been invited to post their information on the Museum Explorer SA website which features all the major museums in South Africa. Their goal is to help visitors and museum enthusiasts find the most fascinating museums in South Africa and Sandstone is proud to be part of the web site. We have added the Museum Explorer web site to our Home Page in the left hand column.

Click here to see our post : https://museumexplorer.co.za/sandstone-heritage-museum/

We are often asked for information on the locomotives and rolling stock at Sandstone. We have published regular stock lists for the last few years and now that we have moved all our 3’6” gauge locomotives to Sandstone we have put together a picture gallery of all our locomotives and rolling stock. 3’6” gauge wagons and coaches is still in production and will be posted soon.

Sandstone’s National Engine

One of the major attractions at Sandstone is the 1935 National Oil engine situated inside the bar area at the Waenhuis Restaurant in the main complex of Sandstone. The distinctive thump, thump of its exhaust is well known to many of our visitors. Sadly it suffered a major failure at our Easter event in 2022 but was repaired in time for the Cherry Steam event in November 2022 thanks to the efforts of the Curator of the Stationary Engine Museum at Sandstone, Danie Pretorius, and Andy Selfe.

Stationary Engine magazine, the premier periodical on stationary engines, has published an article by Andy Selfe on the National and its repair. Andy has raised a query that readers of the article may be able assist with regarding the air receiver on the engine. If you can assist, please get in touch with us : Contact Us
You can read the article by clicking on the the link below:

The Article