NG15 No. 119 (Built Henschel 1938) performs a photo run-past on the Geoff's Trains 2009 Apple Express railtour

Class 34 122 and a unidentified class-mate brings the ballast screening train into the interchange for the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore line. The ballast screener will be used in an intensive two mont... (more)

Class 35 053 brings a set of Slagment empties into Langebaaneenheid interchange yard. The wagons will be later taken to the Arcelor Mittal Saldanha steelworks for filling with slag (a byproduct of... (more)

A quartet of grimy 18Es drag a load of coal empties into Arbor on the Witbank coalfields. The tail of the train can be seen stretching away on the left

Driver Gabby Kovacs readies his locomotive before departure - taken on a FOTR/David Benn photo charter.

Driver Gabby Kovacs reads his train orders before setting off into the night - taken on a FOTR/David Benn photo charter.

NGG16's Nos 153 and 113 perform a photographic runpast on the Vailima loop

The unsung hero behind the "Stars of Sandstone 2014" event was the diesel shunter that made up the various trains during the intensive 9 day programme. Here, the 1964-built Hunslet Taylo... (more)

What better way to travel on the tracks of 'The Estate' than in a 1913 BSA-bodied inspection trolley?

A family group examines Sezela No. 3, a locomotive rescued from the once extensive Natal sugarcane railways

Double headed Lawley locomotives bring a passenger train into Hoekfontein. These miniature sized locomotives were first used on the 100 mile long 2 foot gauge railway that ran inland from Beira (M... (more)

Sandstone's Barclay tender-tank locomotive holds a special place in the history of the Estate as being the first engine to run on the railway system. She is seen here on a small demonstration frei... (more)

A Sandstone Estates employee, posing as the local International Harvester agricultural equipment agent, watches as NGG16s Nos. 153 and 113 bite into the 1 in 21 grade of the Vailima mountain loop ... (more)

In a scene that could have taken place 120 years ago, the 'trek' oxen pulling a typical South African 19th Century transport wagon suspiciously eye the snorting, steaming monsters passing by. This... (more)

The second day of the "Stars of Sandstone 2014" steam festival finds NG15 No. 17 performing on an early morning photographers' charter near Grootdraai.