The recent Cherry Steam Festival was an outstanding success with a great effort made by all the Sandstone staff. The railway ran faultlessly thanks to the planning by Gert Jubileus, our Railway Manager, and the dedication and efforts of our volunteer crews who travelled from Johannesburg, and the Eastern and Western Cape to keep the railway moving.

The volunteer railway crew, from left to right, Mark Ruddy, Gary Ruddy, Shawn Spaan, Ryan Fincham and Andries Keyser.

As a warm up to the Cherry Festival we are running a train for the Kindi Pre-primary School in Ficksburg for 180 children. NGG 16A locomotive number 155 will haul the train.

Its Cherry Festival time! An added attraction at Sandstone will be the Classic Flying collection team with two Tiger Moth aircraft and two Chipmunk aircraft in action. Flips may be available but this is subject to weather conditions.

Thanks to the efforts of Danie Pretorius and his team, our Stationary Engine collection at Sandstone has its own museum. If you search for “Stationary Engine Museum” on the Sandstone website your first document listed will be the stock list. https://www.sandstone-estates.com/index.php/stationary-engines-62/43-stationary-engines/3512-the-stationary-engine-collection