GMAM Garratt No. 4114 following arrival at Sandstone Estates on August 25 after its 120-mile road trip from Bloemfontein.
GERT JUBILEUS
TO ensure future security and enable future restoration and display, the Sandstone Heritage Trust has started to move some of its Cape Gauge (1067mm gauge) steam locomotive collection from Transnet depots around South Africa to the main Sandstone Estates site at Ficksburg in the Eastern Free State province.
In recent years ‘preserved’ locos stored at main line depots have been subject to damage by vandals and metal thieves, some of whom operate as armed gangs!
The first locomotive to move was North British built ex-SAR GMAM Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4