This well-known sabre-rattling newspaper has produced a wonderful article on travelling called “Karroo travelling season” which includes a wonderful piece on Sandstone for your holiday travels! Enjoy the article,
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Sandstone was happy to assist the SA Armour Museum Workshop recently with their new fence,
The installation of the new perimeter fence at Lesakeng and The Sprocket commenced in November 2025 and was successfully completed later in in the month.
NGG13 49 on a demonstration freight on a winter’s morning. Picture by Dave Richardson
Visitors to Sandstone will know that NGG13 49 and NG 15 17 have been stalwarts of the Sandstone 2ft narrow gauge railway since 2004. The locomotives were moved from Umlaas Road and Humewood Road respectively by (then) Spoornet for safe keeping and eventual preservation during the 1980’s.
O&K 11112 is a favourite with our younger visitors on Seb’s Heart of Africa Railway. Picture by Sandstone.
We tend to think that 1925 was not that long ago but it is now 100 years ago and two of our steam locomotives have just celebrated their 100th birthday!
On the 2ft gauge system we have O&K 0-4-0WT number 11112, which was rescued from Fazenda Tentativa Sugar in Angola where it was their number 5. It last saw service in Angola in 1969 and was returned to working order by Lukas Nel and his team at Bloemfontein in 2016.