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On Thursday 29th of October a new diesel locomotive will arrive at Jokioinen Museum Railway. The locomotive has been bought for the work train usage.
The locomotive is made in the USSR, Udmurtia, Kambark locomotive works in 1970. Hundreds of similar TU4-type diesel locomotives were built in years 1962-74. the locomotive bought by the Museum Railway Association has been in service in Lithuania. The locomotive was completely overhauled in Estonia and has for example a new engine.
The new 18 ton four axle TU4 locomotive will be used mainly on work trains and switching heavier steam locomotives and also as an emergency locomotive for the regular steam train traffic and hauler of special diesel hauled charter trains. The locomotive has total of 260 horse powers and its maximum speed is 50 km/h, so it is well fit for hauling heavy goods trains faster passenger trains.
In the beginning of 2009 the Museum Railway Association got a 10 000 euro grant from the Ministry of transportation and communications to buy and repair the locomotive. The project also required a lot of own funding and volunteer work of the Museum railway Association to be completed.
Download a press release (in Finnish) of the new locomotive.
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New web pages of Jokioinen Museum Railway have been published. Pages are divided in two sections, there are pages for Jokioinen Museum Railway and pages for the Museum Railway Association. The Minkiö Steam Festival and Resiina magazine have also their own web pages.
The new web pages have been made using open source Joomla! content management system, which will enable faster and easier updates on pages.
The server space for the new web pages is generously offerred by our local telephone comppany Forssan Seudun Puhelin Oy, which will this way support the tradition of Jokioinen railway.
If you have any questions or feedback regardin the new web pages please contact Teemu Virtanen.
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The ending operating season 2009 was very good. There were more visitors at Jokioinen Museum Railway than ever before. There were total of 19 000 voyages made during this summer and it is equal to the result of year 2007. The traffic was also more profitable as there were less trains running than in 2007. There were total of 15 days when scheduled trains were running and 18 days when charter trains were running. The operating season will end with the last charter train of the year on coming Thursday. After that the complete statistics of year 2009 can be published.
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During the Jokioinen days on Saturday 26.6. there are extra trains running between Jokioinen and Raemäki halt. The price of a train ride is 5 euros return and 4 euros one way. Children from 6 to 16 years pay half price. Trains depart Jokioinen station about every 20 minutes between 11.00 and 14.00 o'clock.
It is also possible to take a train departing Minkiö at 10.35 and arriving at Jokioinen at 11.00 and a train departing Jokioinen at 14.00 arriving Minkiö at 14.20.
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The cosmetically renovated steam locomotive Tampella 256/1916 is now ready. In the renovation the cabin of the locomotive was returned to what it looked like originally. Some of the very rusted melta sheets were replaced and the steam dome was reepared. Also the missing doors were added to the locomotive.
The locomotive will be in summer 2009 on display at the "the Age of Tsars in Finland" Exhibition at the Finnish Stone Center in Juuka.
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The cosmetic renovation of the steam locomotive Tampella 256/1916 has been advancing with speed. The cab of the locomotive starts to get its original appearance back. The back of the cab that was removed when the locomotive was on display in the childrens' play ground in Tampere has been rebuilt together with the cab doors. The next step will be making a new stem dome cover, assembling the rods and painting of the locomotive.
The renovation of the locomotive is supported by Suomen Kivitutkimussäätiö and the locomotive will be on display at the Suomen Kivikeskus "Keisarien aika Somessa" exhibition in Juuka in summer 2009. In autumn 2009 the locomotive will return back to Minkiö.
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The charter train season started with the first steam train of the spring on Saturday 2.5. The first steam train was hauled by the Jokioinen railway number 5 "Orion", which after returning from Wales has seen lot of work at Jokioinen Museum Railway together with its sister locomotive number 4.
Charter trains will be running until end of Septmebr. In June, July, and August scheduled trains will run on Sundays and also on Saturdays 25.7. and 19.9. On other days bigger and smaller groups can charter their own train.
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The first steam train of year 2009 was a work train pulled by an ex Äänekoski-Suolahti Railway H.K: Porter steam locomotive. The train was used to collect unused sleepers of the last autumns track work and to test drive the locomotive which was overhauled during winter months. The new injector and the new steam break valve performed very well. The improvements made to the exhaust system improved steaming a lot.
