Pandora Village on Sandstone Estates is the home to many Sandstone employees and their children.

Being far from any municipal activity, rubbish collection is an issue but, thanks to an initiative by Morgan and Toni Barrett of the nearby Boschfontein Farm, each Tuesday the children meet up and pick up all the litter at Pandora Village. This is then sorted into the various recycling categories and taken to the Ficksburg Municipality landfill site / recycling depot. This programme was started on Boschfontein Farm and it has worked well with the children being rewarded for their efforts. Recently they were taken to Tempelhof Guest and Game Farm for an outing. Much fun was had by them all including the pursuit of a young monkey.

South African Tourism is a Government initiative to promote tourism to South Africa for business or pleasure and is very active in many centres around the world. A number of film productions are done each year to promote South Africa and Sandstone estates was chosen as one of the locations for a current production. Shooting took place  over one day and featured a family ( film extras) on a visit to Sandstone where they experienced a steam train ride, an ox wagon plus a donkey cart ride. All of these are part of the “Sandstone Experience” that visitors to the Estate can enjoy on any visit.

The latest edition of Heritage Railway UK has given us a positive write up on International Visitors to Sandstone and some detail for the proposed David Williams Photographic Tour in June 2024.

With a number of new acquisitions the stock list for the Military Collection has been updated. 

Photographer, Hinrich Brummer, sent us a selection of photographs taken during the recent FarRail Tour to Sandstone in early July. Featured locomotives are NGG13 number 49, NGG16 number 113 and NG15, “Kalahari” number 17.

Sandstone features in the July 2023 edition of The Railway Magazine.

South African photographer James Attwell’s pic, from our Easter Steam and Cosmos  Festival 2023, has been featured in the top selling UK railway publication, The Railway Magazine for July 2023.

International Tour to Sandstone in 2024.

After the success of the recent FarRail International Rail Tour to South Africa, which included Sandstone, we are pleased to announce a tour from the UK to Sandstone has been announced by David Williams for May 2024. Although an International based tour, South African participants are welcome and should contact the organiser, David Williams, via the address details on the information sheet below.
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