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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.
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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.
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Minkiö is the only place in Finland where you can experience an old time countryside market with real steam trains. The Sunday 18th of August is the time of the traditional Minkiö harvest market. Plenty of people crowd the market at Minkiö station and ride steam trains to Humppila and Jokioinen.
At Minkiö station it is also possible to ride on railway hand cars and pop in the Narrow Gauge Museum.
We kindly ask you the arrive to Minkiö by trains, as there is very limited parking at Minkiö station. The market is organised by Kiipu Village Association.
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On Sunday there will be a special TU4 diesel locomotive hauled BBQ train running from Minkiö to a BBQ place at Soravaihde where there is a barbecue with all kind of grilled food for sale. Come and taste the summer barbeque!
Fo more information see the Event Calendar!
