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Willimieli, the co-operation partenr of Jokioinen Museum Railway will again host handcar tours this summer!
Come and taste the old days of railroaders at Willimieli's handcar trip on Jokioinen Museum Railway! On a trip we jump on the hand car and skim the muscular force into the trackwork of old-fashioned style! After pumping the hadcar the veined muscles get into real action when we put the shovels, hacks, and limbs to swing to change railway sleepers. After changing a few sleepers, we enjoy the old time box lunch and pump our handcars back to Minkiö, where everyone will get a diplomas of the work well done. After that, we will have a guided tour at Minkiö station and steal locomotive sheds.
The trip takes about 3 hours and is tailored to the wishes and physical condition of the participants. There will be a supervisor who will familiarize participants with the safe use of handcars and work equipment. The price includes a guided tour of the Museum of the Jokioinen Museum Railway in Minkiö. It is possible to add catering and / or coffee-making as well as sauna in the authentic railway sauna at Minkiö station.
It is enough to have sturdy boots as shoes and regular outdoor clothing. Clothes may get dirty in the track work, so it is not worth putting the best outdoor clothes on! The organizer will provide good working gloves and some water to drink in addition food served.
The price of a trip for a group of up to 10 people is € 659 (VAT 24%). As an additional service, ready heated sauna at Minkiö can be rented 125 € (VAT 24%) and meals / coffee at the agreed price. The minimum age for participants is 15 years. Excursions are arranged according to the agreement during a period when gound is not snow covered or frozen (from late April to mid-October). No excursions will be organized on Sundays in June-August, when the steam trains are in traffic.
For more information and reservations, please contact Teemu Virtanen,
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The artist of Christmas card is PTJ Koskinen, a steam locomotive engineer of Jokioinen Museum Railway. On the card the Santa Claus with his elves and a sleigh on rails is running on the at least partly renovated track of Jokioinen Museum Railway while the track worker elves are watching. On his sleigh there are in addition to normal Christmas presents the Krauss steam locomotive which left for Germany just before Christmas and some open goods wagons bought from Estonia this autumn. The track is in good condition as Santa's sleigh is really picking up speed...
You can also visit our image gallery to view Museum Railway Christmas greetings of past years. All of them are drawn by PTJ Koskinen.
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Santa thanks onece more everybody travelling with santa trains. The weather was really Christmas like with the snow and shining sun. At Minkiö tehre was a tiny christmas market and everybody could get hot drinks and ginger bread at the station cafe.
On board trains there was a christmas elf making people sing and santa with his little helpers giving candy to the small ones. Total of 2520 passanger were counted taking trains, so a big thanks to everybody who wwas over there!
Next year the Santa trains will also celebrate Finland 100 Centenary Celebration. Because of that there will be something new coming...!
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The traditional and infamous star light train will be running again on Saturday the 10th of September. Steam trains are running from early morning until late night. The stoves of carraiges will be lit as well as lights and oil lamps when the evengin turns to night. The summer season of Jokioinen Museum Railway will end with a traditional fire works show at Minkiö station about 9:15 PM, after which the last steam trains will depart to take people back to Humppila and Jokioinen. After this the trains return to Minkiö and summer is officially over.
Return tickets cost 14 € for adults and 7 € for 6-16 years old. Under 6 years old travel for free. Earlier on the same day you can take day train from Childrens' Agricultural Show Mansikki to Minkiö station just for 10 € for adults and 5 € for 6-16 years old.
The station cafe at Minkiö will be open all the day serving coffee, tee, sandwiches and buns, ice cream, sweets and of course souvenirs.
You can find the steam train timetable at our Event Calendar.
On the same day from 10.00 to 17.00 there will be Childrens' Agricultural Show at Elonkierto Agricultural Park in Jokioinen. There will be free bus running from Jokioinen station to the agricultural show. The bus will depart after each train arriving from Minkiö to Jokioinen between 10.55 and 17.00. Return busses to the trains at Jokioinen station from the agricultural show will depart the main gate of show every hour at 10.45, 11.45, 12.45, 13.45, 14.45, 15.45 ja 16.45.
You can download the full buss timetable over here:
Jokioinen station - Elonkierto (Mansikki) bus timetable
For more information on Childrens' Agricultural Show Mansikki, please visit:
The star light train of Jokioinen Museum Railway and Mansikki Agricultural Show are for the first time part of the European Heritage Days, which is a Europe wide cultural event celebrated in 50 countries and with 20 million participants. Come with us and celebrate the European Heritage! For more information on European Heriatge Days please visit their web site at:
After the star light train the locomotives and carriages of Jokioinen Museum Railway start their long winter sleep, but not quite as just before Christmas on 3rd of December the tain wakes up for the Santa Calus Train!
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The Minkiö Harvest Market has its rebirth and new coming! The local Kiipu Village Association will organize a real countryside market at minkiö station. You will for example find fresh vegatbles and berries for sale.
When visiting the market you can also jump onboard a real steam train!
For more information and the timetables please visit our events calendar!
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Minkiö Steam festival is now over for this year. At Minkiö there was real old time feeling when stationary steam engines and steam trains were running, air was full of steam, smoke of wood fire and the sound of steam engines. Even the fact that forecasts were predicting rain did not harm, as the weekend turned out with mostly sunny weather!
A little bit more than 200 people attended this years steam festival. The Museum Railway Association thanks everybody and welcomes everyone back to the Minkiö Steam Festival on 29.-30.7. 2017!
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It is again time for the Minkiö Steam Festival! The Festival will be held at the Minkiö station on the last weekend of July on 30.-31.7.
At the Minkiö Steam Festival one can see running stationary steam engines and demonstrations of how they were used. There will be also four steam trains running from Humppila and Jokioinen Stations to the festival grounds at Minkiö station. In addition there will be a free museum coach service from Forssa and Loimaa to Jokioinen railway station.
For the kids there is a special kids corner with a railway themed jumping castle and also possibility to ride on a real horse.
For more information please check our event calendar!
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It is again time for Minkiö Farmers' Market. Tables fill with interesting thingsto buy and steam trains are bringing people to the market. Minkiö station is full of market spirit and sounds of steam locomotives!
On the Farmers' market weekend there will be two steam trains running at the Jokioinen museum Railway and you can take a train from Humppila and Jokioinen once about in every hour. You can also start your train trip at Minkiö, but because of limited parking at Minkiö we wish you would arrive at the market by a train!
For more information and the timetables please check our event calendar!