Report on line construction to new Narrow Gauge storage facility, Hoekfontein, Eastern Free State.
Access to our new 150-metre long loco and wagon storage facility is all but complete. The brief report from the man in charge, Stephan du Preez, is below.
Report July 11, 2011
New storage shed
I have finished laying the 2’line into the new storage shed. All that is needed now is to collect ballast from Vailima before we can use the shed. I am waiting for the Hunslet spares before we can collect the ballast. I am staring to lay the 3’6 line under the roof.
Suggested utilization of storage shed
I want to keep the passenger coaches in the wagon shed because they need the most maintenance and cleaning. I also want to get the wagons that are valuable that still needs to be restored out of the whether (Guards vans and wooden coaches). The consists will be made of all the NGO and any other wooden coaches that can be damage by the whether. B-Bogeys, DZ, Ballast and XC Tankers can be left outside.
