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RN 194 - Weekly Steamshed Report - 24th - 30th June 2006 - By Gert Jubileus

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RN 194 - Weekly Steamshed Report - 34th - 30th June 2006 - By Gert Jubileus

June 2006


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B Wagon 2968
This B wagon was shunted to the put this week, the braking gears and vacuum cylinder was removed, de-scaled and painted with Red Oxide paint. The vacuum cylinder was overhauled which includes, roll ring, nylon bush, neck ring and cylinder cover joint ring.
The wagon then was shunted outside and was sandblasted and spray-painted with Copper-berry paint and afterwards bearings were fitted and the boxes were packed with axle wool soaked in oil. This wagon awaits further restoration and will be finish by the end of next week.
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DZ Wagon number 1405
This Dz wagon was shunted to the put inside the Workshop. The braking gears were fitted back and the brakes were adjusted. The handbrakes were stuck and were loosened. Henkie went on with building the wooden floor of this Dz wagon and is almost finished.
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The Details on the axle
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Petrus and Jacob fitted the vacuum cylinder back and a new release valve was fitted. Both Dz wagons will receive a second coat of paint in next week and will be stencilled.
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G Wagon Number 3210
This Cattle wagon was shunted from the back of the Wagon Shed this week and was shunted to the put to receive a full under frame restoration. This wagon will be restored to its full glory in the original silver coating. (Above left).
The brake gears were stripped of and de-scaled. The vacuum cylinder was overhauled. Petrus cleaned the inside of the wagon and stripped all the rotten planks that will be replace with new ones.
Below are some photos of the restoration in progress.
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The Ratanga Wagon
The restoration of this wagon will be complete early in next week. The inside of the wagon received a coat of Brown paint inside. Four new wagon doors were made and were fitted to this wagon. The seats for the Ratanga wagon will be finish by next Monday and will be fitted inside the wagon.
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THE SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE REPORT:
The Douglas Locomotive
Derick went on with the building of the new cab and coalbunker for this Locomotive. He also built an appropriate cowcatcher for the Locomotive. The steelwork that was needed on this Locomotive is almost complete, however we still needs to do the following to complete this restoration:
1.) Fit handrails
2.) Fit headlights
3.) Build footplate (Wood)
4.) Fit Cowcatcher
5.) Fit seats
6.) Fit Handbrake
7.) Fit cladding inside the cab
8.) Fit gauges
9.) Fit dome and Dome cover
10.) Spray with spray filler
11.) Paint locomotive
Below are photos taken this week of the restoration of the Douglas Locomotive:
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The building of the footplate commences
Derrick doing some rail maintenance

RAIL MAINTENANCE:
Oupa is still busy with track maintenance on the section between Hoekfontein and Grootdraai and this action proves to be just what was needed. He found a lot of stripped nuts on the fishplates and on T-bolts and is replaced with new bolts and nuts. He will be finish with this section in mid next week and will then proceed to the section between Hoekfontein and Mooihoek.

KM POSTS:
The km posts were fitted to one-metre poles this week. They were stencilled and will be planted halve a km apart. The Station building in Hoekfontein will be the beginning point to measure the distances to both directions. These poles will be planted in the following week.
The Station name boards were fitted to tar poles this week and will be planted in the next week.
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SIGNS AND DECALS:
A new Safety sign board was stencilled this week and was fitted to the “ Overhead”.
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From the Past...
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A Class 25Nc in the early 1980’s on the Bethlehem to Bloemfontein line with Bethlehem’s prestige locomotive 3401.
PLANNING FOR NEXT WEEK:

1.) To finish both Dz wagons
2.) To go on with the restoration of the G wagon
3.) To be almost finish with the restoration of the Douglas locomotive
4.) To wash out Kalahari
5.) To wash out Fowler B5
6.) To rectify play on 153 pivot.
7.) To plant km posts
8.) To make 10 more km posts
9.) To fit floor of coal extractor.
10.) To cut plates for road sign decals
11.) To fit more signboards
12.) To plant Station Name boards
13.) To finish track maintenance on section Hoekfontein to Grootdraai
14.) To start with track maintenance on the Hoekfontein Mooihoek section.
15.) To collect Semaphore signal at Pandora and to start to restore it.

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The Ratanga Wagon

The restoration of this wagon will be complete early in next week. The inside of the wagon received a coat of Brown paint inside. Four new wagon doors were made and were fitted to this wagon. The seats for the Ratanga wagon will be finish by next Monday and will be fitted inside the wagon.
THE SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE REPORT:
The Douglas Locomotive
Derick went on with the building of the new cab and coalbunker for this Locomotive. He also built an appropriate cowcatcher for the Locomotive. The steelwork that was needed on this Locomotive is almost complete, however we still needs to do the following to complete this restoration:
1.) Fit handrails
2.) Fit headlights
3.) Build footplate (Wood)
4.) Fit Cowcatcher
5.) Fit seats
6.) Fit Handbrake
7.) Fit cladding inside the cab
8.) Fit gauges
9.) Fit dome and Dome cover
10.) Spray with spray filler
11.) Paint locomotive
Below are photos taken this week of the restoration of the Douglas Locomotive:
The building of the footplate commences
Derrick doing some rail maintenance
Rounding off the sides of the Douglas' cab plates with flat bar.

RAIL MAINTENANCE:
Oupa is still busy with track maintenance on the section between Hoekfontein and Grootdraai and this action proves to be just what was needed. He found a lot of stripped nuts on the fishplates and on T-bolts and is replaced with new bolts and nuts. He will be finish with this section in mid next week and will then proceed to the section between Hoekfontein and Mooihoek.

KM POSTS:
The km posts were fitted to one-metre poles this week. They were stencilled and will be planted halve a km apart. The Station building in Hoekfontein will be the beginning point to measure the distances to both directions. These poles will be planted in the following week.
The Station name boards were fitted to tar poles this week and will be planted in the next week.
SIGNS AND DECALS:
A new Safety sign board was stencilled this week and was fitted to the “ Overhead”.
From the Past...
A Class 25Nc in the early 1980’s on the Bethlehem to Bloemfontein line with Bethlehem’s prestige locomotive 3401.
PLANNING FOR NEXT WEEK:

1.) To finish both Dz wagons
2.) To go on with the restoration of the G wagon
3.) To be almost finish with the restoration of the Douglas locomotive
4.) To wash out Kalahari
5.) To wash out Fowler B5
6.) To rectify play on 153 pivot.
7.) To plant km posts
8.) To make 10 more km posts
9.) To fit floor of coal extractor.
10.) To cut plates for road sign decals
11.) To fit more signboards
12.) To plant Station Name boards
13.) To finish track maintenance on section Hoekfontein to Grootdraai
14.) To start with track maintenance on the Hoekfontein Mooihoek section.
15.) To collect Semaphore signal at Pandora and to start to restore it.

RN 195 - Weekly Steamshed Report & activities - 1st - 7th July 2006 - By Gert Jubileus

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RN 195 - Weekly Steamshed Report & activities - 1st - 7th July 2006 - By Gert Jubileus

SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY WAGON REPORT

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SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE REPORT:

THE DOUGLAS LOCOMOTIVE:
This week Derrick finished the cladding inside the cab and welded the handrails onto the Douglas cab. He also made a shovel plate and did some fine-tuning to the cowcatcher. Henry made brackets for the headlights and fitted the front and the rear headlights to the locomotive. Henk made a gauge plate and weld it inside the cab just above the tarot. He cleaned the pressure and vacuum gauge and fitted pipes to them. As soon as the paintwork inside the cab is done, the gauges will be fitted to the gauge plate. Henk made lamp brackets and welded them onto the Douglas and fitted a vacuum gooseneck and vacuum steel pipe to the rear end of the Douglas locomotive.
In next week we shall build wood roof for the inside of the cab and will fit the seats for this locomotive. The side tanks will be spray with spray filler and then with 2K paint. By the end of next week, we shall have a complete new picture of this locomotive in her new livery.
Below are the photos of the almost complete picture of the Douglas Locomotive.
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The shovel plate in the Bunker.
The construction of the cladding.
Below: Derrick busy with the fitting of the cowcatcher and fixing the buffer beam. The new plates that were used to build the cab and coalbunker were painted with Admiral Grey paint to prevent them from rust. The original colour will be sprayed on in next week.
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Below left: Henry grinding the handrails.
Below right: Derrick welding the handrails to the cab.
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Below: The front and rear headlights
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Below Right: Derrick cutting out new side steps for the Douglas.
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Below Left: The two new steps and on the right: Derrick securing them to the Locomotive.
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Below Left: The building of the footplate.
Below Right: Henry fitted a handbrake for the Douglas before he could finish the footplate.
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Below Left: The Gauge plate just above the Tarot.
Below Right: Henk fit the gooseneck and vacuum pipe
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Below: Henkie bending the pipes for the gauges. Below: The lamp brackets for the Douglas Locomotive.
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THE O&K LOCOMOTIVE:
The regulator was removed from the O&K locomotive this week. The regulator bolts to the side of the dome and the packing blew out the last time we steamed her. The steam pipes was removed for this operation and new gasket was fitted to the regulator joint on the dome.
Below are photos of the regulator.
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SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY WAGON REPORT
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This week we finish the restoration of three wagons, the Ratanga wagon and both DZ wagons.
THE RATANGA WAGON:
Henry finished with the doors of the Ratanga while Ben painted the inside and outside of this wagon.
Below are photos of the Ratanga Wagon.
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Ben painted the handrails and the steps with yellow paint and also sprayed the bogeys with PWD brown. I can’t decide which one of the two restored Ratanga wagons are the most impressive; we need to shunt the two together in next week. The varnished wood really makes them special.
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THE DZ WAGONS 1405 AND 1746
Henk finished the wood floor of 1405 and both the DZ’s were spray painted this week. Below are the photos of the last two Dz wagons fully restored.
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G WAGON NUMBER 3210:
The restoration on this wagon went on this week. The braking gears were fitted back this week and the vacuum cylinder was overhauled and was fitted back. New brake blocks were fitted and the brakes were adjusted. The handbrakes were made workable again and the under frame restoration is complete. The floor of this wagon was taken apart and were removed to. Both the doors were removed and needs replacement with new ones at Pandora.
Below are photos of this very special wagon:
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Below: Jacob overhauling the vacuum cylinder of 3210.
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Below Left: Petrus sanding the wooden sides of this wagon
Below Right: Jacob and Petrus battling to get the vacuum cylinder back.
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THE SANDSTONE STEAM RAILWAY TRACK MAINTENANCE:
Oupa finished the section between Hoekfontein and Grootdraai this week and I used him to assist me to plant all the km posts as well as the new Station name boards. The complete Railway now have km posts halve a km apart.
Below are photos of the km posts and the new Station names:
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A Railway with personality!
A photo of the wagon-shed sign
Signs and Decals
This week a new Wagon Shed sign was fitted to the wagon shed. In next week we are going to make new safety notice signboards that will hang from beams of the shed roof to a height just above the locomotive windows on both sides of the shed in a neat line from the front to the rear of the shed.
SEMAPHORE SIGNALS:
The first two Semaphore Signals were offloaded on Friday. Both of them will undergo upgrading and will be put up in the section between Mooihoek approaching Hoekfontein Station.
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This photo was taken this week when I visited Oom Lukas Nel in Bloemfontein Station. In time, taking photos of our loved ones will be of the past. They will be gone, gone forever. All over South Africa they are cutting up these Giant machines of my heart without knowing that each of them has a personality, a soul and I can hear them cry for help. They were the pride of the Railway, the pride of long gone drivers, now they are abandoned and they are falling like all the Heroes of yesterday.

I met the guys who cut them up the other day in Welkom, they have no respect, no regret and even showed me a photo of 15F 3026, my regular locomotive on which I was a fireman in 1990, that they have cut up into pieces. I was so emotional, I had to leave the site before I lost control, but I will never forget.
PLANNING FOR NEXT WEEK:
1.) To finish the refurbishing of the Douglas Locomotive
2.) To finish the refurbishing of the two Semaphore Signals
3.) To wash out the Kalahari and Fowler B 5 and to prepare for Boiler Inspection.
4.) To do Track Maintenance on the Hoekfontein to Mooihoek section.
5.) To move trolleys and spares from Pandora (Home Signal Semaphore)
6.) To go on with the restoration of 3210.
7.) To go on with the restoration of B 2968.
8.) To make Mooihoek Station Name board
9.) To make Safety signs for the Steam Shed.
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RN 196 - A brief History of Bathala

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RN 195 - A brief History of Bathala

The Sandstone Heritage Trust is committed to the preservation of Southern Africa’s 2-ft narrow gauge heritage. In this regard every attempt has been made to monitor the fate of locomotives, rolling stock and other items relating to narrow gauge railways that existed in the past 150-years in Southern Africa. When the Angolan War came to an end 4-years ago the Sandstone Heritage Trust focussed on a number of narrow gauge railways in Angola. These narrow gauge railways either served big sugar plantations in bringing sugar cane to the mills or operated into the hinterland small, select feeder lines bringing crops like coffee from the mountainous regions down to the coast.

Research indicated that the Dombe Grande Sugar Mill in the southern part of the country had acquired an interesting cross-section of diminutive steam locomotives in the 1800’s. In order to investigate this matter further an expedition was mounted to visit all the narrow gauge railways, including Dombe Grande, to see what had survived the 30-year Guerrilla War that has ravaged the country from the early 1970’s.

The visit to Dombe Grande Sugar Mill, which was completely derelict, was productive. There were signs of the remains of a number of early diesel powered locomotives but no sign of any track whatsoever. Most of the buildings had been badly damaged as a result of time, vandalism and military onslaughts. However, through the help of the local people, we were led to a building that was in the process of falling down but which still had a roof over it. This building was completely overgrown with vegetation and one could have walked past it without even realising there was even a building there. Inside this building we found Bathala, the 1899 French manufactured Decauville locomotive which was built for the Dombe Grande Sugar Mill. The locomotive would have arrived late in 1899, early 1900, and been put to work straight away hauling sugar cane from the extensive lands to the steam operated sugar refinery. We have no pictures of the locomotive in use but we do know that it was withdrawn from service in 1993 and placed in a museum dedicated to the Sugar Mill. It occupied centre stage amongst agricultural portable engines and very early sugar processing machinery. Most of the other items were still in the museum and were still intact.

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"Bathala" as we found her
Sadly the practical realities of moving stuff through the bush in Angola to a point where they could be loaded onto heavy transport made it impossible to save the entire contents of the museum. The Sandstone Heritage Trust therefore focussed on the one item, and after extensive negotiations with local authorities negotiated for the locomotive to be taken to Namibia and then onto South Africa for full restoration.

It arrived in South Africa in July 2004 and was completely rebuilt by March 2005. It then spent a year on display and in steam at the Sandstone Heritage Trust private narrow gauge railway in the Eastern Free State. The locomotive was basically too small for the agricultural railway on which it was operating, and a decision was taken to make it available to the Beaulieu Estate for display purposes, and hopefully some limited steam operations as appropriate.

The locomotive will proceed to France after some time at Beaulieu, and will then almost certainly return home to Africa where it has spent its entire life.

The Decauville is a classic locomotive design from a very competent manufacturer and from a company that although highly skilled at manufacturing steam locomotives in fact produced very few in relative terms. The bulk of the output of narrow gauge locomotives were either British or German in origin.
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"Bathala" today

RN 197 - Little Bess working - there is a driver there somewhere!

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RN 197 - Little Bess working - there is a driver there somewhere!

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RN 198 - Unique 3'6" freight wagons move into line for restoration and movement

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RN 198 - Unique 3'6" freight wagons move into line for restoration and movement

 
This interesting line-up of old South African Railways workers accommodation wagons are being restored to their original state. Once complete they will be moved on site to Hoekfontein to join their colleagues. Old freight wagons bring back very special memories of days gone by. Each vehicle was built for a specific purpose and they help tremendously to define what our railways were all about 50 or more years ago.
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RN 199 - First World War German Imperial Eagle flies again in preservation

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RN 199 - First World War German Imperial Eagle flies again in preservation

The Feldbahn is now complete and ready to move to the Sandstone Heritage Trust private railway at Sandstone Estates in the Eastern Free State.
Attention to detail is once again evident from these photographs.
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RN 210 - Feldbahn returns to Africa

RN 199 - First World War German Imperial Eagle flies again in preservation

RN 193 -Lest we forget, this is what the Feldbahn looked like when it arrived from the UK

RN 192 - Feldbahn locos working in Eastern Europe

RN 176 - Bloemfontein. Brigade (Feldbahn) Locomotive

RN 163 - Our Brigade (Feldbahn) restoration proceeds apace.

RN 148 - The Brigade Loco (Feldbahn) makes more steady progress

RN 132 - The Feldbahn being restored by Sandstone Bloemfontein workshops is proceeding steadily

RN 84 - Work continues on Feldbahn locomotive boiler

RN 72 - Work continues on Feldbahn locomotive

HTN 35 - Come to the Vintage & Steam Country Fayre!

HTN 42 - A letter from Steven's Mechanical - Steven's Steam Restoration - 04 October 2005

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HTN 42 - A letter from Steven's Mechanical - Steven's Steam Restoration

4 October 2005

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HTN 79 - Agriland - March/April 2006 - Letters published by Wilfred Mole

Today was a Dark Day! Feedback

We received the following feedback from a supporter in the UK


Dear, Mike, Joanne, Gert, Hester, Derrick, Lukas, Wouter and everybody at the Sandstone Heritage Trust

I just don't know what to say.

I just hope this does not put you off continuing the fantastic work you do with your glorious South African steam railway heritage (and other heritage)

I just wish there was something I could do to help from here in the UK.

Is there?

Please, please, do not stop doing the work you and the Sandstone Heritage Trust do for South African enthusiasts and for your worldwide supporters.

With kindest regards and thoughts
Kim Winter
St Albans - UK

Gallery of the Great Train Restaurant move to The Eastern Free State

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Gallery of the Great Train Restaurant move to The Eastern Free State

PRESS RELEASE

March 2004
The three dining cars, Nos. 198 “Umgeni”, 215 “Kowie” and 218 “Riet plus Kitchen Car no 253, which had stood for 35-years at Halfway House at Midrand as part of the well known Train Restaurant (remember crocodile steaks and elephant potjie amongst other dishes) which closed in 2003, have been moved off the site as part of their relocation to the Sandstone Heritage Trust in the Eastern Free State. The core of the structure comprised the four coaches listed above which saw long service in the restaurant and were a landmark in the history of the Halfway House area.

Reputedly the restaurant originally applied for permission to establish its business in the Johannesburg Metropolitan area but the authorities at the time were concerned that the apartheid laws of the day would not be properly enforced and refused to allow it to be built. They therefore moved out to what was effectively the platteland and built it in the village of Halfway House.

Obviously over the years it transformed itself from a semi-rural restaurant in a small town to something which became an anachronism in a heavily built up metropolitan and industrial area. Inevitably the area changed in character and this type of restaurant no longer found favour.

It was auctioned on two separate occasions but no satisfactory bids were received for the four dining cars. The Sandstone Heritage Trust who attended both auctions entered into negotiations with the owners and originally purchased them. As is often the case with items of this type the purchasing is the easy part; it is moving them that takes real expertise. Because there was a degree of urgency contracts were given out to Reyneke Transport and Vanhatten Lifting to lift the carriages. Significant rigging expertise was needed and two teams from the above companies arrived on site on Thursday, 4th March.
Rail laid by Goldfields Track, the Sandstone Heritage Trust rail contractors, enabled the coaches to be pulled out of the building where the huge 300-ton cane could gain access to them. They were then lifted skilfully onto very special rear steering bogies for the difficult trip to Boksburg through the industrial areas of Kempton Park and Isando.

Excellent cooperation was received from Spoornet who provided a loading facility at Boksburg East Station in the old shunting yard. This was a more user friendly environment to offload the carriages from the bogeys onto rail than had been the case at Midrand where considerable skill was needed by all concerned to extract the items safely.

Unfortunately the weather turned against the contractors on the Friday with cold drizzly and occasionally heavy rain for the 24-hour period. This extended right through Saturday but the teams persevered and the coaches were all safely loaded onto their bogies and onto rail by Saturday midday. Remarkably all the coaches’ bearings and brake systems were in excellent condition even after standing for over 30 years. A team from Spoornet’s Coach & Wagon Department were there on Saturday morning to prepare the coaches for their long journey to the Eastern Free State.

We pay tribute to these men who worked in cold, miserable conditions. They were highly effective and it took them less than two hours to get the first coach ready. A good example of if you want to get something done, give it to the professionals, which in fact was very much the approach throughout the operation.  Arno Serfontein from Sandstone Estates and Hennie De Jager from Wille Projects agreed to stay with the coaches and took up residence in them while they were waiting to be railed.

Ron & Val Nell of Frameline filmed the entire movement and the historic lifting and bringing back to rail of these items will ultimately appear on a professional video covering the Sandstone Heritage 3’6” gauge operations.

The Kommandonek Siding has, in cooperation with Spoornet, been extended and the four coaches will take up occupancy of the siding where they will be fully restored immediately. It is hoped to have them as part of the inaugural David Shepherd special train from Ficksburg to Bloemfontein and back on 6th/7th November behind David’s own 15F, 3052 which is in the care of the Sandstone Heritage Trust.

Fortuitously another coach owned by Sandstone Heritage Trust purchased some years ago from ERPM Gold Mine in Boksburg was also loaded at the same time from the mine which is very close to the Boksburg East Siding where the four dining cars were loaded.This coach is a 2nd/3rd class suburban brake built in Durban in 1949.

These five units, which comprised a train of over 100-metres in length, arrived in Kommandonek, near Ficksburg on the 15th March.


Issued by Sandstone Estates (Pty) Ltd:

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INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY

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International Museum Day

18 May 2004

International Museum Day is celebrated annually on 18 May. This year the International Council of Museums decided on the theme of ‘Museums and intangible heritage’


While Sandstone Heritage Trust does not claim to be a Museum, it certainly contributes to the preservation of ‘intangible heritage, mainly through the vehicle restoration programme. The Trust has two steam workshops, one in Bloemfontein and the other at Sandstone Estates near Ficksburg in the Eastern Free State. Here young apprentices are trained to become steam fitters, to care for the locomotives in the collection and to drive them as and when required.

Wickham Type 28 Flying Gang Trolley. One of three, nos. 8066-68 despatched to Durban in December 1958. A development of the Type 27 trolley it was powered by a Ford 591E petrol engine developing 30hp and was fitted with a three speed gearbox to which was attached a Wickham totally enclosed bevel geared direction box. Drive from this box was by a duplex roller chain to the rear driving axle. A cooling fan and radiator were fitted at the front of the trolley. 01

Since Spoornet phased out steam and left it in the hands of Transnet Heritage Preservation, Sandstone is making a major contribution in keeping this skill alive. Sandstone also sends out many other types of vehicles for restoration to experts in their fields eg wheelwrights, thus ensuring that these crafts are still practised.


Museums have great collections but most of the exhibits are static. What a thrill to see a veteran motor car being driven or a boiler being fired up. The ability to achieve this must not be lost!

King Letsie III of Lesotho 21-May 2004 - At Sandstone Estates

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King Letsie III of Lesotho 21-May 2004 - At Sandstone Estates

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HTN 8 - Oz review of latest Sandstone video

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HTN 8 - Oz review of latest Sandstone video

Steam Locomotive

Usually we see our steam locomotives from the lineside hauling loads of freight or passengers through the beautiful Eastern Free State countryside, but this shot shows a driver's eye view from the footplate of the Lawley approaching the loco shed with a Garratt on the other track.

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