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In the coming weekend are the Humppila Days. To celebrate that steam trains will be Running from Humppila Station to Kernmala halt and back. Also the cafe at Humppila station will be open!
In addition to normal scheduled trains there is a special Humppila Day train running between Humppila station and Kermala halt. The first train of the day calls Humppila at 10.27 and the last train will leave Humppila at 16.05. Trip on the special Kermala train costs 5 euros for adults and 2,5 euros for children. You can also take the special train with a normal day ticket of Jokioinen Museum Railway.
It is also posiible to make a longer steam train trip from Humppila to Minkiö or Jokioinen by taking one of the normal scheduled trains.
For more information please check the Event Calendar!
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The scheduled steam train traffic started on Sunday 1.6. The event calendar and timetable of Jokioinen Museum Railway for operating season 2014 is also online. The season started like always with the Minkiö Antique Car Day at Minkiö station on Sunday June 1. There were no long speeches on that day but old and also newer antique cars filling the Minkiö station and old steam trains were running on narrow rails.
The main event of the season is the Minkiö Steam Festival, organized already for the tenth time in 2014. The best steam festival of the summer will be organized the last weekend of July, 26. - 27.7. at Minkiö station. The two day event will have several stationary steam engines, running steam locomotives, stationary agricultural gasoline engines old vehicles and of course the old narrow gauge trains running on the tracks of Jokioinen Museum Railway.
Steam trains running all the summer
In 2014 steam trains are running on the 14 km track between Jokioinen and Humppila on 14 summer Sundays of June, July, and August. In addition there will be the traditional diesel hauled Mid Summer train to Mid Summer part at Enttu dance pavilion in Humppila on Thursday 19.6. and steam trains running on Saturdays 12.7. during Häme Day in Humppila and on 26.7. during Minkiö Steam festival. The operating season will end with the Star Light Train on Saturday 13.9. when several extra trains will run for the Children Country Fair at Jokioinen.
Read more about the events of Jokioinen Museum railway at our event calendar. We reserve the right to change prices, timetables and events, so please check the events regularly.
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The early spring has arrived at the Museum Railway and all the snow has now melted away. Because of this we can declare the hand car rental season open!
You can rent the hand cars for weekend use until mid May. From the mid May you can rent the hand cars every day. Until end of May you have to reserve the hand car beforehand. After the Narrow Gauge Museum opens in the beginning of June you can also rent hand cars directly at Minkiö station. Hand cars are not rented on scheduled operating days or when charter trains are running.
For more information please visit the following page:
http://www.jokioistenmuseorautatie.fi/en/hire-a-hand-trolley.html
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The small electric locomotive of ex Finlayson Forssa Factory built by Siemens-Schuckert Werke in Germany has been this week the star of the RATA 2014 seminar of Finnish Transport Agency in Turku. The locomotive was loaded ontop of a truck at Minkiö on Sunday 19.1. and transported to Logomo conference center in Turku. It was the first time the locomotive was travelling on a road! In Logomo the locomotive was unloaded and then moved on top of small track panels in to the Logomo building in the middle of a stage with a not so swift manouver that took several hours.
Forssa electric railway was an electric railway built for internal traffic of Forssa factories and owned by Forssa-yhtiö (Forssa Comppany), later since 1934 Finlayson Oy. The railway was of a 750 mm narrow gauge and had a direct connection with Jokioinen Railway. The voltage of the overhead wire was 500 volts DC.
The railway had total of two electric locomotives. Operation of electric locomotives ended up already in 1973 when a lightning had ben damaging the newer of the two locomotives.
Both of the locomotives are preserved. The older one, Orenstein & Koppel locomotive (1898, 0-4-0sm) is cosmetically restored and painted yellow. It is on display in a glass box in the front of Forssa Library. The newer one which was damaged by lightning in 1973 (Siemens-Schuckert 1647/1922, 0-4-0sm) is at Jokioinen Museum Railway and this week on display at the RATA 2014 seminar.
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The Jokioinen Museum Railway event calendar for operating season 2014 is published. This season will start at 1st of June with Minkiö station veteran car day. The opening day will not be filled with long speeches but the Minkiö station will be full of old veteran automobiles to celebrate the start of season 2014.
The highlight of the season 2014 is the Minkiö Steam Festival, arranged for tenth time in 2014. The best steam festival of Finnish summer will be at Minkiö station and depot area the last weekend of July. During two days, the festival area will be packed up with old agricultural- and other steam machines, vintage cars and of course old narrow gauge steam trains.
Steam trains runs through the summer
Museum Railway steam trains run along 14 kilometre long narrow gauge railroad between Humppila and Jokioinen. The scheduled trains are operating on 14 Sundays and two Saturdays.
Read more in event calendar. Please note, that events and timetables are subject to change.
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Jokioinen Museum Railway and Museum Railway Association wishes all the friends of museum railway Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014!
Christmas card of this year is - once again - illustrated by locomotive engineer PTJ Koskinen. Santa Claus with his little helpers has just pulled the newly renovated JR4 Tubize steam locomotive out of Minkiö workshop and is now pushing it in a Christmas gift packet. It looks like we caught them before the packet was closed and sealed! You may also visit our image gallery with a collection of Christmas cards previously illustrated by PTJ Koskinen.
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On Friday, 29.11. 2013 at 18:00 Jokioinen Museum Railway and the Museum Railway Association will organize hearing of proposed extension of Jokioinen Museum Railway to the shore of the river Loimijoki. The hearing will be held at Jokioisten Tietotalo at Humppilantie 9 A.
At the event among the other things track location and alignment will be discussed.
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Renovation of the Jänhijoki railway bridge, the oldest metal railway bridge still in railway use in Finland was completed on Thursday 3.10. The bridge dating back from 1897 was thoroughly renovated. The joints between the stones were seemed, bearings of the bridge renovated and abutments on both ends of the bridge repaired. All this work was made possible with the financial aid of the National Board of Antiquities and help of the Finnish Transport Agency
The bridge has quite interesting history. In 1918 during the Finnish Civil War the retreating red troops tried to blow the bridge up. However they only managed to cause some minor damage to the bridge and quite soon the bridge was temporally repaired with logs that supported one end of the bridge. In the beginning of the 1920s the bridge was fully repaired by the bridge department of Finnish State Railways. You can still see the marks of this reparation work in the three diagonal rivet joints on one end of the bridge.