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It is again the 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!
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This year there are many ways to celebrate the Midsummer at the Jokioinen Museum Railway. The festivities start with the traditional midsummer night train to the Midsummer party at Enttu Dance Pavilion on Thursday 18.6. This year we will be running the Midsummer night train by a steam locomotive for the first time in trains history! Come and exprience a steam train run through white nights of Finnish summer!
You can get to the Enttu Midsummer party by a steam train from Humppila, Jokioinen, Minkiö or any of the halts of the railway. There will be a free transfer from Kermala halt to Enttu Dance Pavilion and back. After the party there is a free transfer to Kermala halt from where the trains to Humppila and Jokioinen direction will depart.
On the Midsummer Sunday there is the traditional Midsumer steam train running. This year there will also be summer theatre available at the Minkiö station. A play for all the family by the Theathre Perä will be available. The performance will start at Minkiö at 14.15 and last about an hour.
For more information and the train timetables please visit our event calendar:
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This Sunday the 14.6. is the day of the yearly Humppila Station Day. On that day there will be a special Humppila-Kermala express running in addition to a normal Humppila-Minkiö-Jokioinen steam train. You can catch this special every twenty minutes either at Humppila station or at Kermala halt.
Roundtrip takes about twenty minutes and fits well also the smallest ones of the family! The ticket price of the trip is 5 euros for adults, 2.50 euros for 6 to 16 year old, and under 6 yearl old ride for free.
Come on board and to check what kind of train will be running this year on the "Humppila Special"!
For more information and timetables of the day please look at our event calendar.
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The scheduled steam train traffic of Jokioinen Museum Railway will start on Sunday 7.6. The first train will depart at 10.25 and the trains will run all the day according to our timetable. For more information and the timetables please visit our event Event Calendar!
This season will be opened like last year with old automobiles as invited guests. The Museum Railway welcomes all old automobiles to attend the opening day at Minkiö station from 11 to 15.
There are many other events in June like the Humppila Old Station day on Sunday the 14th of June when also a special train is running from Humppila to Keramala halt and back.
The Mid Summer week sees the traditional night train of the white nights running from Jokioinen, Minkiö and Humppila to Kermala Halt from where there is transportation to Enttu dance pavilion Mid Summer Festival. Later on night there is a return train from the festival. Trains will also run on normal schedule on the Mid Summer Sunday.
One of the big events of this summer is the Minkiö Farmers Market when there are two trains running and the biggest market of the summer at the Minkiö station.
The last weekend of July is time for a grand celebration! The Minkiö Steam festival turn ten years and there will be steam, steam and more steam with lot of festivities for people of all ages!
In mid August on Sunday 16.8. the Jokioinen museum railway will celebrate the Restaurant Day and you will have a possibility to taste the savor of Russian cuisine on board a real Soviet era restaurant car. And maybe there are other pop-up restaurant around too...
The summer will finish with a day of traditional mixed train running without hurry through the countryside, sometimes late of the schedule but who cares. Traveling is more important than arriving!
In autumn there are trains running on two Saturdays. On Saturday 5.9. there are trains together with the Childrens' Agricultural Fair "Mansikki" and the summer operating season will close with the Star Light Train and fireworks on Saturday 12.9.
However the operating season does not fully end here. Last year Santa promised to return with the Santa Claus Train and yes, he is back on Saturday 5.12. with the steam train and small market at Minkiö station.
You can find all the events at our Event Calendar!
In addition to trains you can also rent handcars on days when there are no trains running. For more information please visit our Handcar page.
Groups can also charter their own steam or diesel train, reserve guided tours of the Narrow Gauge Museum or coffee at Minkiö station cof'é. For more information please visit the Services for the groups -pages.
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Track work will be made at Jokioinen Museum Railway from the begining of May until end of October. Work will be made on all woking days and sometimes also on weekends. The work includes changing of railway sleepers, lifting track and tamping track.
Please be careful at the level crossings and remember to look for work trains. Trains are operating on every day, both in week and weekends. In addition to work and passanger trains therea are also rented handcars running on the the line! We are kindly asking everybody to pay attention and give free passage to all trains and handcars running on the railway. Remeber your and others' safety when crossing the tracks!
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This year the Museum Railway Association operating the Jokioinen Museum Railway applied for a grant of the National Board of Antiquities to repare the two hole Saustila stone culvert and all other culverts on the railway.
For the National Board of Antiquities it was a surprise how many stone culverts exists at Jokioinen Museum Railway in nearly original condition. The board made a field trip to study the Saustila culvert and decided to include all the stone culverts of the Jokioinen Museum Railway in a register of historical monuments. Because of this all the culverts are now protected by a law.
At the same time the National Board of Antiquities granted 8000 euros to check all the culverts and to make a renovation plan for them.
This is a first phase in larger project to repair all the stone culverts to last for the next 100 years. The designition of historical monument is very important for Jokioinen Museum Railway and also the fact that we are now the longest railway line in Finland with 19th century stone culverts in original condition.
Later on the plan is to poist signs next to the culverts that people renting handcars can stop to admire the work of the 19th century stonemasons!
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Thank you for visiting us at the Tampere travel fair! There were plenty of visitors all the time and it was pleasure to talk with all of you. We welcome all our guests and others too to Jokioinen Museum Railway to ride on board a steam train or hire a handcar at the Minkiö station!
The lucky winners of our competition are following people:
- Handcar rental
- Anniina Oksanen, Forssa
- Tickets to Mansikki
- Suvi Härkki, Viljakkala
- Surprise prize
- Mikko Holpainen, Forssa
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Come and see Jokioinen Museum Railway at the Tampere Travel Fair on 17.-19. 4. at the booth of Jokioinen mucipality E920. You can come and ask us questions of renting handcars, steamtrain schedules or group travel at Jokioinen Museum railway. You can also book your handcar trips and charter trains streight from us! Welcome!