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We recently ran a story about the AY Hoppers we sold to the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway (WW&F) and the Edaville Railway in Maine, USA. The units were delivered directly to the WW&F which is some distance from the Edaville Railway. Following on from our previous post (https://www.sandstone-estates.com/index.php/railway-heritage-58/2ft-narrow-gauge/3769-the-usa-rolling-stock-arrives) we received a mail from the Chairman of the WW&F, David Buczkowski, detailing the move of the wagons destined for the Edaville Railway.

David takes up the story:

The Royal Coaches of Ladybrand

We recently discovered two coaches from the 1947 Royal Train of South Africa near Ladybrand.

We have many visitors who fly into our Sandstone grass strip for our events. Should you wish to fly into a tar strip, Ficksburg Airport will be open for visitors and offers transport from the Airport to Sandstone. Full details are below.

(from left to right)

Paul Rollason
Garry Paper
Qian He
Leanne Paper
Stephanie Rollason (Paul’s daughter)
Jody Rollason (Paul’s wife)
Johan van Biljon (tour guide from African Timeout)

We were pleased to host an Australian tourist group recently at Sandstone led by Paul Rollason together with their Tour Guide, Johan Botha.

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One of our favourite cars at Sandstone is the 1934 Morris 10 which had a partial restoration some years back but has now been completed to the highest standard by Lukas Nel. Yes! that Lukas Nel of steam locomotive fame and a man of many talents.