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Jokioinen Museum Railway and Museum Railway Association wishes all the friends of museum railway Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013!
Christmas card of this year is - once again - illustrated by locomotive engineer PTJ Koskinen. Santa Claus with his little helpers are just emptying Minkiö station warehouse building for upcoming renovation. You may also visit our image gallery with a collection of Christmas cards previously illustrated by PTJ Koskinen.
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After the operating season is over it is the time to concentrate in the boiler renovation of JR 4. The aim of the reparation is to retube the boiler, to build a new smoke box for the locomoyive and get it up and running next summer.
In the beginning of the last first week of September the badly corroded smoke box was lifted off and all the boiler tubing was removed. There is a new smoke box built by using the original drawings. At the same time all the tubes will be changed to new ones.
At the same time some other parts pf the locomotive like the ash box under the boiler will be renewed. During the renovation the boiler will go through also official internal boiler inspection.
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The operating season of the Jokioinen Museum Railway ended with the Star Light Train on Saturday 8.9. The operating season was officialy closed with a fire works show just before the last trains of the evening departed Minkiö station.
However the charter trains pulled by a vintage diesel locomotive continue running before the heavy snow conditions will definetly close down the operating season usually in December-January time frame. You can find more information of the charter trains on the "Hire a Steam Train" page.
You can also rent the railway hand cars at Minkiö station until the snow will cover the tracks. Because the narrow gauge museum is already closed for season you need to book the hand cars in advance. For more information please visit the "Hand Trolley Trips" web page.
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Minkiö is the only place in Finland where you can experience an old time countryside market with real steam trains. The Sunday 19th of August is the time of the traditional Minkiö harvest market. Plenty of people crowd the market at Minkiö station and ride steam trains to Humppila and Jokioinen.
At Minkiö station it is also possible to ride on railway hand cars and pop in the Narrow Gauge Museum.
We kindly ask you the arrive to Minkiö by trains, as there is very limited parking at Minkiö station. The market is organised by Kiipu Village Association.
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The main event of 150 years of Railways and VR Ltd, the Railway Museum days, will be organised the following weelend in Hyvinkää. On the grounds of Finnish Railway museum in Hyvinkää you can also find the H.K. Porter locomotive of Jokioinen Museum Railway, which is one of the oldest locomotives operating over there on the track purpose built for her. You can attend the event on both Saturday 11.8. and Sunday 12.8. from 10.00 to 19.00.
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The traditional Minkiö Steam festival organized in the last weekend of July was again a great success. This year marked the eight year for the two day steam event. The Jokioinen Municipal Days were organized together with Jokioinen steam festival at Jokioinen end of the railway. Watch a picture gallery of the 2012 Minkiö Steam Festival!
This year four out of five operational steam locomotives of Jokioinen Museum railway were in operation. Theree locomotives were pulling museum trains between Humppila and Jokioinen and the small H.K. Porter locomotive was pulling the one car park train at the festival grounds in Minkiö.
There were four stationary steam engine in operation; "Ruston" of Mäkilä Tractor Museum from Somero, "Kullervo" of the Finnish Museum of Agriculture from Loimaa, "Paras-Apu" of Mr Juha-Pekka Eeva, and "Kullervo" of Thomas Commondt from Pargas. In operation there was also an old steam ship boiler and a steam fire engine of Turku Area Rescue Services. In addition there were several stationary petrol engines and tractors. People could also try to use a railway hand car and watch a collection of miniatyre steam engines and Lego trains.
This summer steam trains operate on narrow gauge Humppila-Jokioinen railway every Sunday from the beginning of June until end of August. All the timetables and events of the summer can be found at the Event Calendar.
On the 14 km long Jokioinen Museum railway more than 400 000 trips had been made during the 41 years of museum operation. The railway is one of the most important tourist destinations in South-West Tavastia. The museum railway is fully operated and maintained by volunteers of Museum Railway Association, an association of more tha n 800 members in Finland and aboard.
This operating season there are four steam locomotives in operation from years 1901-1948. There are more than ten passenger carriages in use and a 1911 built passanger coach of Hyinkää-Karkkila railway is under renovation.
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On Sunday 15/7 there is an additional train pulled by a diesel train at Jokioinen Museum Railway. The train will run Minkiö-Humppila-Minkiö-Jokioinen in addition to normal scheduled steam train.
This is the only day of the year that you are guaranteed to see one of the diesel engines of the railway pulling a passanger train. Normally diesel engines are used only to pull work trains. Now you can first take a steam train and the change trains at Minkiö station to take a ride behind a vintage diesel locomotive. You can find more information including the time tables at the event calendar.
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The traditional train to celebrate the Midsummer's Eve's Eve will be running at Jokioinen Museum Railway again on Thursday 21.6. With the train you can get to the Midsummer party at Enttu dance pavilion. You can take the train from Jokioinen and Humppila directions. Once the train arrives at Kermala halt there is a further transportation on top of open tractor trailers to Enttu pavilion. Timetables and more information is available at the event calendar.
The tradiotiona Old Times Midsummer Part at Enttu pavillion will be celebrated a day before Midsummer's Eve on 21.6.2012 starting at 7 o'clock PM. The program includes games, dance, buffet, lottery, etc. You can get there by train from Jokioinen and Humppila on the narrow gauge Jokioinen Railway. departures from Jokioinen at 18.20, Minkiö at 18.40 and Humppila at 19.25. Return trains from Enttu starting at 22.30 and arriving at Humppila at 22.35, Minkiö at 23.20 and Jokioinen at 23.40. Trains will stop on request at all halts and railway crossings.