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The main event of 150 years of Railways and VR Ltd, the Railway Museum days, will be organised the following weelend in Hyvinkää. On the grounds of Finnish Railway museum in Hyvinkää you can also find the H.K. Porter locomotive of Jokioinen Museum Railway, which is one of the oldest locomotives operating over there on the track purpose built for her. You can attend the event on both Saturday 11.8. and Sunday 12.8. from 10.00 to 19.00.
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The traditional Minkiö Steam festival organized in the last weekend of July was again a great success. This year marked the eight year for the two day steam event. The Jokioinen Municipal Days were organized together with Jokioinen steam festival at Jokioinen end of the railway. Watch a picture gallery of the 2012 Minkiö Steam Festival!
This year four out of five operational steam locomotives of Jokioinen Museum railway were in operation. Theree locomotives were pulling museum trains between Humppila and Jokioinen and the small H.K. Porter locomotive was pulling the one car park train at the festival grounds in Minkiö.
There were four stationary steam engine in operation; "Ruston" of Mäkilä Tractor Museum from Somero, "Kullervo" of the Finnish Museum of Agriculture from Loimaa, "Paras-Apu" of Mr Juha-Pekka Eeva, and "Kullervo" of Thomas Commondt from Pargas. In operation there was also an old steam ship boiler and a steam fire engine of Turku Area Rescue Services. In addition there were several stationary petrol engines and tractors. People could also try to use a railway hand car and watch a collection of miniatyre steam engines and Lego trains.
This summer steam trains operate on narrow gauge Humppila-Jokioinen railway every Sunday from the beginning of June until end of August. All the timetables and events of the summer can be found at the Event Calendar.
On the 14 km long Jokioinen Museum railway more than 400 000 trips had been made during the 41 years of museum operation. The railway is one of the most important tourist destinations in South-West Tavastia. The museum railway is fully operated and maintained by volunteers of Museum Railway Association, an association of more tha n 800 members in Finland and aboard.
This operating season there are four steam locomotives in operation from years 1901-1948. There are more than ten passenger carriages in use and a 1911 built passanger coach of Hyinkää-Karkkila railway is under renovation.
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On Sunday 15/7 there is an additional train pulled by a diesel train at Jokioinen Museum Railway. The train will run Minkiö-Humppila-Minkiö-Jokioinen in addition to normal scheduled steam train.
This is the only day of the year that you are guaranteed to see one of the diesel engines of the railway pulling a passanger train. Normally diesel engines are used only to pull work trains. Now you can first take a steam train and the change trains at Minkiö station to take a ride behind a vintage diesel locomotive. You can find more information including the time tables at the event calendar.
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The traditional train to celebrate the Midsummer's Eve's Eve will be running at Jokioinen Museum Railway again on Thursday 21.6. With the train you can get to the Midsummer party at Enttu dance pavilion. You can take the train from Jokioinen and Humppila directions. Once the train arrives at Kermala halt there is a further transportation on top of open tractor trailers to Enttu pavilion. Timetables and more information is available at the event calendar.
The tradiotiona Old Times Midsummer Part at Enttu pavillion will be celebrated a day before Midsummer's Eve on 21.6.2012 starting at 7 o'clock PM. The program includes games, dance, buffet, lottery, etc. You can get there by train from Jokioinen and Humppila on the narrow gauge Jokioinen Railway. departures from Jokioinen at 18.20, Minkiö at 18.40 and Humppila at 19.25. Return trains from Enttu starting at 22.30 and arriving at Humppila at 22.35, Minkiö at 23.20 and Jokioinen at 23.40. Trains will stop on request at all halts and railway crossings.
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Traffic season 2012 of Jokioinen Museum Railway started on Saturday May 19. with first charter train. Steam locomotive number 5 Orion hauled train consisted of seven passenger carriages. At first the empty train ran from Minkiö to Jokioinen, where group of 181 persons came onboard.
After boarding the train continued to Humppila, where the group had a meal in the station. After that train returned to Jokioinen, left the group and returned back to Minkiö.
The next charter train will be on May 30. and scheduled traffic season will begin at next Sunday, June 3.
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Steam locomotives of Jokioinen Museum Railway are coming back to life after winter hibernation. At Sunday May 13. former Jokioinen railway locomotive number 5 Orion was warmed up to its working pressure. Some maintenance and test runs were performed on Monday and the locomotive was found to be ready for summer traffic and the first charter train next weekend. Also steam engines HKR5 and LWR6 were prepared for official inspection of their steam boilers.
The steam locomotive boilers are pressure equipments officially supervised by authority. So steam locomotives of museum railway can be used and maintained only with officially qualified supervisors.
All five steam boilers were given new supervisors during May, when musem railway steam locomotive engineers PTJ Koskinen and Jarkko Lehtonen were officially qualified to receive the duty. Earlier spring both passed an offical engine supervisor exam required.
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You can now follow what is going on at the Jokioisten Museum Railway also on Facebook and Twitter. Small news are regularly updated on these services
Also the main news appearing on these web pages are published on Facebook. Updates on our twitter account are also visible on bottom left hand side of these web pages.
On Facebook you can become fan of Jokioinen Museum Railway at address: www.facebook.com/museorautatie. On Twitter you can follow us at address: www.twitter.com/museorautatie.
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A group of active volunteers visited Jokioinen Museum Railway in the first weekend of May. The sixteen leaders of scout troop Tampereen Kotkat (Tampere Eagles) participated to the track maintenance and carried out their own planning sessions which were held on the railway carriage.
At Saturday the scouts installed totally 34 new sleepers in Minkiö-Humppila railway line - in the matter of only few hours. At Sunday the group installed two pieces of new wooden covers into railway crossings at Raemäki.
Museum Railway Association would like to thank the scouts for the participation!