New Sandstone Estates, Inwards The Province Of Southward Africa, Inwards The Gratuitous Province Province
The Sandstone Heritage Trust, which is based on a 170-year onetime working farm, is a mortal preservation inaugural amongst a passion for doing things the old-fashioned way. The Trust preserves collections of traction engines, historic agricultural machinery, earth-moving equipment, together with classic cars.
( trucks together with buses to cars to earthmoving equipment, vintage trucks, Caterpillar scrapers, graders together with bulldozers... addition an floor together with airfield )
1910 BSA railcar
It every bit good has the world’s largest collection of two-foot narrow-gauge locomotives. The Sandstone Estates’ steam trains brand upwards a collection of locomotives that accept been restored for the enjoyment of many steam lovers from all over the world. One of the aims of the restoration projection is to institute South Africa every bit ane of the world’s top steam prepare tourism destinations.
One of the highlights of the calendar for steam prepare fans is an annual 10-day steam festival hosted at Sandstone Estates inwards March, Apr or May.
Sandstone Estates inwards the Eastern Free-State received the 2016 Business of the Year Gold Winner Award for Tourism
The farm was built upwards past times the Wille solid unit of measurement from the 1830s, who were originally German linguistic communication missionaries. Wilfred Mole bought the complex amongst his married adult woman Linda inwards 1995 later on making his coin from becoming the possessor of the Nokia franchise for South Africa. The farm has been 100% organic since 2005, producing wheat, soya beans, maize, together with sunflowers, it is today held every bit business office of a portfolio of international agri-businesses.
http://www.sandstone-estates.com/images/pdf/Introducing_Sandstone_Estates_Nov_2016.pdf
http://karoospace.co.za/living-the-steam-sandstone-estates/
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