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The boiler section of number 49 has now arrived in Johannesburg at Reefsteamers where it was offloaded by the Reefsteamers crane. This was originally a steam crane but is operated now by compressed air directly to its cylinders. Number 49 was offloaded from the Sandstone lowbed together with the new boiler tubes and placed on a DZ truck for movement into their main workshop. Here it will be lifted by the workshop gantry crane from the DZ and placed on blocks for the retubing to begin shortly.

Our pictures from Reefsteamers show 12AR 1535 hauling the crane into position and the lifting process from the lowbed to the DZ.

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The latest steam report from the Steam Team at Sandstone

The latest steam report from the Steam Team at Sandstone - Click here to view

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A4 INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY POSTER

Sandstone Heritage Trust via its museum status is a member of the South African Museum Association (SAMA). May 18^th is International Museum Day and SAMA has produced the attached document on this event. It makes for interesting reading with the history of the event and what museums can do to celebrate the day.
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Sandstone has a long association with the James Hall Museum of Transport and they have extended an invite to all for a photographic exhibition on May 24^th on the History of Trams in Johannesburg. Well worth a visit.

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The second of our Garratt locomotives to require retubing, NGG13 number 49, had had its boiler section split from the engine units and loaded on the Sandstone lowbed for transport to Reefsteamers in Germiston who have been contracted to do the retubing. Although we retubed NGG16 number 113 at Bloemfontein, the pressure is now on there to complete the NG10 number 61 hence we have contracted out the retube of 49.

The locomotive will arrive at Germiston on Tuesday 15^th May with the repairs due to begin in June.

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