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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!
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The Jokioinen Museum railway event calendar and timetables for summer 2015 have been published! The events include the Day of Veteran Cars at the Minkiö station on Sunday 7th of June. 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 vents 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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The new web pages of the Jokioinen Museum Railway has been now published! The pages are more simple and easier to navigate than older ones. If you are interested in giving feedback or comments, please feel free to email your ideas to our address at: info (at) jokioistenmuseorautatie.fi!
We will keep adding material to these pages in coming weeks. In addition to web pages of Jokioinen Museum Railway also the pages of the Museum Railway Association have been updated.
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The operating season 2014 of Jokioinen Museum railway will close on Saturday 13.9. with Children's Agricultural Fair and the Star Light Train with fireworks at Minkiö station. The steam train traffic will start again after the winter in May with charter trains and in June with the scheduled traffic.
In 2014 groups can still charter diesel powered charter trains. For more information on charter trains please visit our "Hire a Steam Train!" page.
One can also hire a hand trolley until the track is covered by snow. If you are interested in hiring a hand trolley please check the "Hire a hand trolley!" page.
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On Children's Agricultural Fair - Mansikki on Saturday 13.9. countryside will be presented in children perspective. There will be things to do and see for all the day. The fair will open at ten o'clock in the morning. Children can for example try driving a tractor. All the agricultural machines from tractors to harvesters will be there - together with pedal tractors!
The steam trains of Jokioinen Museum Railway will be running all the day (tickets 14 / 7 / 0 euros). So you can arrive by train to Humppila station and continue with a steam train to Jokioinen. From Jokioinen station to the fair grounds you can travel either by a museum bus or by an old Zetor tractor. You can find the bus timetables here ja and the route map here!
Steam trains are running and the cafe at Minkiö depot will be open on Saturday 13.9. For more information and the the timetables please check the Event Calendar.
-Groups can book their train trip with discount. For more information please check the "Charter carriage and group prices" -page.