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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.
Welcome!
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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.
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Renovation of the oldest metal railway bridge still in railway use in Finland started on Monday 23.9. The bridge dating back from 1897 will be throughly renovated. The joints between the stones will be seemed, bearings of the bridge renovated and abutments on both ends of the bridge will be repaired. All this work was made possible with the financial aid of the National Board of Antiqueties 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.
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The operating season of Jokioinen Museum Railway ended on Saturday 14.9. 2013 with the annual Star Light Train and fireworks at Minkiö station. The steam train traffic will continue in May 2014 and scheduled steam train traffic will start again in June 2014.
In 2013 you can still charter diesel trains on Jokioinen Museum Railway. You can find more information on the "Charter Services" page.
Also railway hand cars can be rented until snow is covering the tracks. However you need to book to be sure the hand cars are available. For more information, please visit the "Hire a hand trolley" page.