Gert Jubileus, the Sandstone Railway Manager, has been hard at work with his track gang preparing the railway for the Easter event. A major task was the replacement of the sleepers on the points at the exit of Hoekfontein Station towards Grootdraai. Our gallery shows the new points in position and the Funkey diesel in action as the track gang spreads the ballast which has been delivered in our vintage rake of cocopans.
We often feature Sandstone locomotives on our site but here is a short photo article on the wagon types that can be found at Sandstone.
All have been sourced from now defunct narrow gauge systems in South Africa and total over a 100 wagons of various types.
We have also included in this story the South African Railways Narrow Gauge Wagon Diagram Book so that you can have a look at even greater detail of the types. As you will see each type often has many derivatives, the DZ wagon, for example, has 9 versions but only 4 of these are left in existence.
Our current stock list lists the total of each type with numbers that we have.
You can access the stock list on: The Sandstone Stock List. (sandstone-estates.com)
Click here to view the Wagons PDF
Click here to view the SA Railways Narrow Guage Wagon Diagram Book
As excitement builds for our Sandstone Easter Steam Festival we are working hard to bring other attractions into the limelight. Our oxen are well known but our donkeys and mules less so. We hope that they will be out and about as much as possible during the show. We obviously consider their welfare as a priority but they seem to enjoy it and we believe they are looking forward to it.
Military vehicles, vintage tractors, a traction engine or two and old trucks and buses are all part of the line-up plus, of course, the world famous 2ft narrow gauge Sandstone Steam Railway.
We look forward to seeing you on the farm.
As part of the moves of our 3’6” gauge locomotives and rolling stock to Sandstone, we committed to placing all the assets under cover. This has now been completed as our pictures show with the two GMAM locomotives, 4114 and 4079, 25NC 3488 and 15F 3052 now safely under cover.
As part of our preparations for our Easter event, the track gang has been hard at work preparing our railway for a busy show. Persistent inclement weather has made quite a mess of various area of track which are being methodically cleaned and checked to bring up to our working standard. Sadly the rain continues and has slowed down our efforts but we will be ready for the expected large number of visitors over the Easter weekend. Our pictures show the extent of the work required and the results being achieved. See you all at Easter!
