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Further progress on the NG10 at Bloemfontein.

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Last Updated: 26 May 2018
Further progress on the NG10 at Bloemfontein.

The locomotive continues to take shape as the brass boiler bands have now been fitted and work is we…

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Preserving the best of our past for the future.

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Last Updated: 23 May 2018
Preserving the best of our past for the future.

Sandstone’s motto is never forgotten and a recent auction at Belfast saw us put it into action with…

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NG10 number 61.

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Last Updated: 19 May 2018
NG10 number 61.

Work has progressed with this restoration with completion of the fitment of the running boards toget…

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Cosmetic Restoration of NZASM “B” number 230

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Last Updated: 19 May 2018
Cosmetic Restoration of NZASM “B” number 230

The stripping, cleaning and painting of this locomotive is now complete at Bloemfontein. All the loo…

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The two portable engines from Sigisi Sawmill.

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Last Updated: 19 May 2018
The two portable engines from Sigisi Sawmill.

These two donations from Sigisi Sawmill have been collected from the mill near Kokstad and transport…

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Sandstone’s Waterloo Boy at NAMPO 2018

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Last Updated: 23 May 2018
Sandstone’s Waterloo Boy at NAMPO 2018

John Deere celebrates 100 years in 2018 and one of the earliest examples of a John Deere tractor in…

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NGG13 number 49 arrives at Germiston.

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Last Updated: 15 May 2018
NGG13 number 49 arrives at Germiston.

The boiler section of number 49 has now arrived in Johannesburg at Reefsteamers where it was offload…

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Latest Steam Report 15 May 2018

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Last Updated: 15 May 2018
Latest Steam Report 15 May 2018

The latest steam report from the Steam Team at Sandstone - Click here to view

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International Museum Day 2018

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Last Updated: 14 May 2018
International Museum Day 2018

Sandstone Heritage Trust via its museum status is a member of the South African Museum Association…

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Photographic exhibition on May 24th

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Last Updated: 14 May 2018

Sandstone has a long association with the James Hall Museum of Transport and they have extended an i…

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NGG13 Number 49 Boiler Retube

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Last Updated: 14 May 2018
NGG13 Number 49 Boiler Retube

The second of our Garratt locomotives to require retubing, NGG13 number 49, had had its boiler secti…

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The worlds largest traction engine.

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Last Updated: 12 May 2018
The worlds largest traction engine.

A replica of the world’s largest traction engine ever built, the Case 150HP of 1904, is nearing com…

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NG10. Whereto the windows?

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Last Updated: 12 May 2018
NG10. Whereto the windows?

We have many photographs of NG10 number 61 in service in Port Elizabeth thanks to Leith Paxton who e…

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NG10 - Fitting the running boards.

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Last Updated: 12 May 2018
NG10 - Fitting the running boards.

The NG10, being USA built, has a few quirks compared with the primarily European built locos used on…

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The Maize Queue.

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Last Updated: 09 May 2018
The Maize Queue.

The loading area at Sandstone was very busy the other day with the loading of 1000 tons of yellow ma…

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Some new machinery at Sandstone

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Last Updated: 09 May 2018
Some new machinery at Sandstone

Sandstone is always on the lookout for items under threat and it was with great delight that we rece…

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  1. NG10 number 61 taking shape.
  2. A fascinating history of fire engines.
  3. Update on the Restoration at Bloemfontein.
  4. NG10 number 61. On to the finish!

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A great weekend with the NG10!

After the arrival of a number of outstanding parts prior to the weekend Lukas Nel and his team excee…

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Latest Steam Report Feb 2019

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Stationary Engine news

Danie Pretorius who runs our Stationary Engine group is one of a number of very enthusiastic Statio…

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Test Word Doc

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The beauty of the NG10.

The locomotive is now attached to the tender and apart from a few minor boiler mounts and regulator…

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Traversing the workshop. The NG10 takes a sideways move!

As per our last report we needed to mate the NG10 with its tender which were on different lines in t…

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The NG10 moves closer to the finish!

The tender is now close to completion and will be moved behind the locomotive to finish the intermed…

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