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James Hall Museum of Transport

James Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg, Open Day Saturday 17th February.

The James Hall Museum will be holding an Open Day on Saturday 17th February. Sandstone Heritage Trust has a close working relationship with the museum. The Lawley steam locomotive, NG97, at Sandstone is on loan from the museum and was restored by Sandstone to working order.

The museum is well worth a visit with varied exhibits ranging from a London bus to South Africa’s own electric car. For full details of the event click here to view

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The repairs to and preparation of the front tube plate are now complete and the retubing will begin very shortly.

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The completely rebuilt boiler for NG10 number 61 has now been completed by Keith Stevens and his team at the workshop in Howick. The boiler will be collected shortly for transport to Bloemfontein where Lukas Nel’s team will continue with the final restoration.

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Work on cleaning up the tube plates is nearly complete although the grinding and welding is a slow but necessary process of the retubing.

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Steam report Jan 2018

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