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Visiting Sandstone 2022

Visiting Sandstone 2022

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Good rains at Sandstone and tidy up time.

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Last Updated: 18 January 2021
Good rains at Sandstone and tidy up time.

January has seen good rainfall at Sandstone and the mealies are growing. At the same time the 1915 b…

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The CATS come out to play!

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Last Updated: 18 January 2021
The CATS come out to play!

Our Caterpillar collection has for too long been a quiet and fairly modest part of our overall Herit…

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Steaming into 2021

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
Steaming into 2021

As many of our readers know, NGG13 number 59 is at the Hempstead and Northern Rail Road in Texas wh…

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Some updates to the NG10

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
Some updates to the NG10

NG10 number 61 has seen limited use since Stars of Sandstone 2019 but had developed a couple of teet…

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A number plate for NG16a number 155

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
A number plate for NG16a number 155

As the restoration of NGG16A proceeds, the time has come to order the various number plates and bu…

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Welcome to our first Heritage News for 2021

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Last Updated: 06 January 2021
Welcome to our first Heritage News for 2021

The Covid 19 Pandemic has changed the way we work and we have extended our report from the pure Ste…

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Locomotive Galleries

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Last Updated: 04 January 2021
Locomotive Galleries

The Sandstone Railway stock list has been a feature of the website for many years. For 2021 we are…

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Railway Preservation, what will 2021 bring?

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
Railway Preservation, what will 2021 bring?

A recent post on this web site on November 4th 2020 reflected on a 1997 document, “Where to pr…

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Steam Festivals in 2021

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Last Updated: 23 March 2021
Steam Festivals in 2021

As well as our Summer Steam Festival in February 2021 we shall be holding an Easter Steam Festival…

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Sandstone Summer Steam 2021 26-28 February 2021.

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Last Updated: 27 November 2020
Sandstone Summer Steam 2021 26-28 February 2021.

After our very successful Spring Steam Festival in November 2020, which brought some fun back to the…

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The Sandstone Spring Festival 2020

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Last Updated: 24 November 2020
The Sandstone Spring Festival 2020

There is no doubt that the Covid 19 pandemic reduced the number of visitors compared with previous y…

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Spring Festival Album by James Atwell

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Last Updated: 24 November 2020
Spring Festival Album by James Atwell

James Atwell attended our Spring Festival and produced a wonderful album of the event. Click on the…

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020

With the festival over on Sunday 22nd November, it was time to put NGG16 number 153 to bed. Not…

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 4 Sunday 22nd November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 4 Sunday 22nd November 2020.

The final day of our very successful Spring Festival with a wrap up gallery for the day.

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 3 Saturday 21st November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 3 Saturday 21st November 2020.

The third day of our Spring Festival. Our gallery shows more visitors together with a fly in guest t…

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Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 2 Saturday 20th November 2020.

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Last Updated: 23 November 2020
Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 2 Saturday 20th November 2020.

The second day of our Spring Festival. Our gallery shows more visitors today with NGG16 number 153 o…

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  1. Sandstone Spring Festival 2020 Day 1 Friday 19th November 2020.
  2. NGG16A number 155 under restoration. Update number 11. November 2020.
  3. The Spring Steam Festival
  4. “Where to private rail use in SA”

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A present from Skoda.

One of Sandstone’s long time European supporters is Svatopluk Slechta, an engineer from the Czech Re…

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The Star Drilling Machine.

 

Sandstone has two of these fascinating steam powered drilling machines. Both are with a rest…

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Intrepid Travellers visit Sandstone

Torsten and Ilona Eggert from Germany arrived at Sandstone on Freedom Day, 27th April, with their Ha…

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Stirling Engines.

 

Keith Simmons has been a regular visitor to Sandstone for many years and assisted us with so…

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World Wickham Day.

As you will see from the attached file, Inaugural World Wickham Day, Friday 22 April 20022,  re…

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A photo gallery of the Easter Steam Festival at Sandstone, 15 to 18 April 2022 by Leon Hugo.

Leon Hugo is a professional photographer from Gqeberha in South Africa and sent us a photo essay fro…

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Steam Fun at Easter despite the weather!

Staging events at Sandstone Estates in the Eastern Free State is becoming more difficult.  This…

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