Jokioinen side embankments of Jänhijoki railway bridge repaired on Sunday 17 May. Melting of winter snow had flushed out some gravel from the end of stone embankments.

Inspection of locomotive boilers is a clear sign of spring at Jokioinen Museum railway. On Tuesday 11. 5. two of steam locomotives, the ex Jokioinen railway number 4 built by Tubize in Belgium in 1947 and the ex-Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway number 5 built by Tampella in Tamepre Finlandin 1917 went through in steam boiler inspection. Third locomotive, ex-Loviisa-Vesijärvi railway number 6 built by Tampella in 1909 had at the same time an inside boiler inspection. Also a number of stationary steam engines for the Minkiö Steam Festival 2010 were inspected.

Steam locomotives, their use, repair and service are regulated by the law. There are regular inspections every second year to make sure the locomotive boilers are in good condition and safe to operate, and will be preserved also for the future generations.

Two rail switches of Minkiö yard were under complete renovation during winter. The switches installed back to their original places 24. to 25. April.  Switches are more than a hundred years old, so most of the metal parts had been either repaired or completely renovated. For example, the middle of the intersection of tracks of the second switch was in such bad shape that the workshop produced a whole new parts made of direct rail. Also all wooden sleepers under the rails were changed.

Preparation for traffic season have started after snow was melted. The first charter trains will run in early May and scheduled traffic begins on the first Sunday in June.

The first train of this spring to Humppila pulled by TU4 diesel locomotive ran on Good Friday on 2.4. The crew of the train was Marko Laine, Tuomas Juhantila and Teemu Virtanen. The trip went well, even there was quite a lot of snow on the track and especially the railway crossings were packed with frozen snow.

Aftre lot of shoveling of snow and removing ice the train arrived at Humppila making the trip in little bit less than two hours.