We have received an influx of articles appearing which covered various aspects of our heritage programme here in South Africa...
German Journalist, Peter Pauls, is no stranger to Sandstone and visited us in 2017 for our Stars of Sandstone event. You may recall he wrote to us about losing his cellphone at our Stars of Sandstone 2017 event which was found and safely returned to him.
The Carte Blanche programme on M Net Channel 101 on Sunday 12th May was a big hit and we will be posting a copy of it, courtesy of Carte Blanche and M Net, on YouTube in the near future.
The latest edition of CNN Inside Africa featured some “Trains of Southern Africa” including Sandstone’s 2ft Narrow gauge railway. The programme features Sandstone and a number of other tourist railways in South Africa.
The recent Farrail Photographic Tour to South Africa has been covered in an extensive article in the respected German magazine, Lok Report, October 2023 issue. You can click here to read the German version or click here for the English translation.
The latest edition of Heritage Railway UK has given us a positive write up on International Visitors to Sandstone and some detail for the proposed David Williams Photographic Tour in June 2024.
Sandstone features in the July 2023 edition of The Railway Magazine.
South African photographer James Attwell’s pic, from our Easter Steam and Cosmos Festival 2023, has been featured in the top selling UK railway publication, The Railway Magazine for July 2023.
In the Press
The magic button for the ”In the Press” section which covers all our media mentions is just below the main home page image on the Sandstone site. Over the recent weeks we have done a major revamp on the site to bring together all the media mentions we have had over the last few years since the web site began in 2005. To celebrate this we have put together a short Media Review of the latest stories which we know you will enjoy! Click here to see the review then click on the magic button, “in the Press” to see our varied media coverage since 2005.
Old Glory March 2023
Our upcoming Easter Steam and Cosmos Festival, in April 2023, has received a couple of mentions in the latest edition of Old Glory magazine together with a short write up on our Cherry Festival Event last November. One article is in the Vintage World section by Derek Rayner, which also covers a story on a South African Aveling & Porter portable engine at Springs near Johannesburg. The main magazine also features the new Sandstone book, “The Sandstone Steam Railway, the story continues” which receives a favourable review. Our thanks to Old Glory magazine for this excellent coverage!
Click the below links to read more:
Old Glory Magazine Link 1
Old Glory Magazine Link 2
Sandstone’s National Engine
One of the major attractions at Sandstone is the 1935 National Oil engine situated inside the bar area at the Waenhuis Restaurant in the main complex of Sandstone. The distinctive thump, thump of its exhaust is well known to many of our visitors. Sadly it suffered a major failure at our Easter event in 2022 but was repaired in time for the Cherry Steam event in November 2022 thanks to the efforts of the Curator of the Stationary Engine Museum at Sandstone, Danie Pretorius, and Andy Selfe.
Stationary Engine magazine, the premier periodical on stationary engines, has published an article by Andy Selfe on the National and its repair. Andy has raised a query that readers of the article may be able assist with regarding the air receiver on the engine. If you can assist, please get in touch with us : Contact Us
You can read the article by clicking on the the link below:
Narrow Gauge World reviews Sandstone ‘s latest book.
Narrow Gauge World is possibly the premier magazine or narrow gauge railways in the UK. Features Editor, David Joy, has been a long-time supporter of Sandstone and has given our new book a very positive review for which we thank him! His final comment on the situation of railway preservation in South Africa is a poignant statement on what is a sad current situation.