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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The jewel of the Sandstone 2ft Narrow gauge collection is, without doubt, the small Decauville 0-4-0T locomotive, works number 302, built in 1899 in France. Since its discovery at the Dombe Grande sugar estate in Benguela Province, Angola, in 2003 we have believed the name to be “BATHALA”. Some research by railway historian, John Middleton has unearthed the attached picture of the locomotive at the Dombe Grande Museum in 1970 where Sandstone ultimately found it some 33 years later.
As there is no official Cherry Festival in 2023 we have given our November 2023 event a new name-“The Sandstone Summer Steam Festival”. You can see full details in either English or Afrikaans by clicking on the link to the pdf below. We look forward to welcoming you at Sandstone, 17th to 19th November 2023!