Create fun memories at Winelands Light Railway

Winelands Light Railway

The Winelands Light Railway has been designed and built with family-time in mind. The park include a miniature train park, a kids play park and an obstacle course and is aimed to create fun memories to parents and children by sharing an exclusive outdoor experience.
The Winelands Light Railway on was settled on a property to be developed on the R304, Stellenbosch in April 2018 and finally opened its gates to the public twenty months later on 14 December 2019. The date marks as significant as it is exactly five years after opening their first railway in the KZN Midlands in 2014.

All the locomotives, coaches, track, bridges, and train station has been built locally in South Africa by Andries Keyser, John Sharpe and Charles Viljoen. The trains are a 1/3 scaled down version of prototypical narrow gauge railways from all over the world.

Andries and his wife, Gisela Keyser are actively involved in the operations of the business. For Andries this is not a business, but an absolute obsession.

He has been drawing pictures of trains since his mom can remember. Him and his wife even got married on a full-scale steam train in Hillcrest, Durban. Andries’s first steam engine, the Lawley, was completed at the age of 24 and took five years to build. The engine is named after his mother, Doreen. The same engine broke the Guinness World Record in 2017 at the Pietermaritzburg Model Engineering Society’s track by completing the longest distance covered by a miniature steam locomotive over a 24 hour period.

Take a trip on the steam train or spend the day sprawled out on the lush lawns. Kids can enjoy the play park all day long. Visitors are welcome to bring in their own picnic baskets (no alcohol nor any braais are permitted) or choose a selection of food from the Food vendors.

Operating days include: every weekend (Friday – Sunday), long weekends, public holidays and school holidays daily from 9am to 5pm.

For more information visit www.winelandsrail.co.za