Sandstone Heritage
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Bloemfontein Shed
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Sandstone Heritage Trust, Bloemfontein workshops. Although Sandstone is reasonably well known as a destination it is less well known that we operate a major locomotive refurbishment programme at our Bloemfontein workshops. This is located in the old Steam Depot which was the home of constant Steam activity for many decades. |
AY Week AY WEEK!!!During the last week we paid special attention to all our mobile AY ballast wagons and restored two ballast wagons that arrived from Port Elizabeth late last year. AY NUMBER 2033 AY number 2033 was lifted from its bogeys this week... Last Updated (Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:30) |
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AY WEEK!!!
1st March 2010
Kerr Stuart loco, No. 4062, has been problematic since it was restored.There is a technical question mark relating to its performance and it has been decided to send it back to Bloemfontein to be...
The Sandstone Heritage Trust owns the following O&K locomotives, together with an Arn Jung unit also of German origin. For the sake of this exercise we have included the Arn Jung under the same...
From: Peter Micenko
Locomotive O&K number 10311 was offloaded in Bloemfontein last week. Attached is a preliminary report on work Lucas and his team intend to do.Possible removal of boiler to clean in-between...
7th July 2009
03 July 2009 - Update 13
Lukas Nel who is far too busy restoring locomotives to produce long reports does nonetheless keep us up-to-date.
After Sandstone's visit to Angola in 2003, a number of ex sugar estate locos were acquired and brought to South Africa . Of these two have been restored, namely Decauville "Bathala" and O&K...