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The Museum Railway Association maintains and runs the Jokioinen Museum Railway based on voulntary work, grants and donations.
At the moment money is needed for starting the steam train operations in July. The locomotives need an inspection and some work before our summer season. Money is also needed for the ongoing track work as the matching sum of 10 000 euros need to collected before we can get the grant.
Museum Railway Association hopes to cover at least part of these expenses by donations.
Museum Railway Association got an offical police permit to collect money for important but expensive projects.
The expensise to run the Jokioinen Museum Railway have increased every year. Even a small donation will help us. You can give just 5 or 10 euros. In addition to private people also comppanies and associations gan donate money to us.
Our aim is to collect 15 000 euros, and you can follow how far we are of this first goal on the home page of Jokioinen Museum Railway!
Donations can be paid directly to the accout of Museum Railway Association:
- Museorautatieyhdistys ry.
- IBAN: FI63 5080 0620 0613 68
- OKOYFIHH
- The money collection permit holder: Museorautatieyhdistys ry.
- The reason to collect money: The donated money will be used for the track, locomotive, carriage and building maintenance of Jokioinen Museum railway and to preserve Finnish narrow gauge heritage within a lvining museum.
- Permit number: RA/2020/523
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The new Humppila station will be opened on coming Sunday the 9.6. 2019. At the same time it will be almost exactly 25 years since the first museum trains rolled in Humppila after the newly rebuilt Minkiö-Humppila line was opened for traffic on 5.6.1994.
On the 11 of December 2018 the station building was transported by a truck to Humppila from Riippa in Northern Finland. After that started a very laborious project to renovate the station. The first work was to remove all structures built in the building in the 1980s when it was used as a datacenter for train control.
After all dismantling work the building itself had to be lowered on its final position and some structural reparation had to be done to remove some rotten and water damage material. Only after that the renovation work in the station could be started.
The renovation work included for example: painting and reparation of all window frames and doors, repairing and painting the ceiling and the floor, new half wall wainscot paneles, new wall paper, new trims, new felt roof and new outside painting of the station house and much more than can be listed over here.
Now the work is starting to get ready and it is the time to take the station in use and celebrate the grand opening on the Sunday 9.6. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done before one can say the station is completely ready.
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Last week a new station building for Humppila station was transported from Riippa in Norhern Finland. It is a type of building that was very common hundred years ago at smaller railway stations in Finland. Moving of the building took four full days.
The station building was loaded in Riippa on Tuesday 11.12. and after that it travelled more than 12 hours arriving at Humppila early on Wednesday morning at 3.05 AM.
The next day the original foundation stones transported to location were installed and the station lifted off the transportation flat. On Thursday the building was lifted on top of its foundation and the final adjustments were made on Friday.
The station building will be fully renovated during winter and spring 2019. The building will have a large waiting room and cafe space and station master's office.
For more photos and facts of the new Humppila station, please visit the "Projects" page of the Museum Railway Association" -sivulla.
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Today will be 120 years of opening the Jokioinen railway to temporary traffic. Actual traffic had been already started as soon as rails reached Forssa and the Chief of Operations Mr H.Korkonen had been named in mid July 1898.
There was the following article published at Aamulehti newspaper on the 17th of December 1898:
Jokioinen-Forssa railway.
Under certain conditions, the Senate has approved the traffic regulations for the Jokioinen-Forssa railway. The railway can be opened for traffic, after the management board of the railway has publicly anounced it and made a announcement to the government transit board. The traffic rules and tariff will be the same as in the case of the State Railways. The maximum speed is 25 kilometers per hour.
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Because of high demand the Santa Claus Train will be runing for a second day on Sunday the 2nd of December. The Santa train will run between Minkiö and Jokioinen Stations. Timetables of this train will be shortly published.
The price of the train ticket includes ginger bread and a hot drink and some sweets for the small ones of the family. The hot stoves are heating the carriages and christmas lights giving some light in the darkest time of the year.
There is some Christmas program for kids at Minkiö station.
Come and join us for this warm christmas event and do not forget to ask your friend to join the trip onboard the Santa Claus Train.
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The traditional Santa Claus Train is coming to town on the 1st of December. The steam train of Santa Claus and a diesel hauled train of elves are both operating between Jokioinen and Humppila.
The orice of the train ticket includes ginger bread and a hot drink and some sweets for the small ones of the family. The hot stoves are heating the carriages and christmas lights giving some light in the darkest time of the year.
There is some Christmas program for kids at Minkiö and Humppila stations. There is also a cafe at Humppila.
Come and join us for this warm christmas event and do not forget to ask your friend to join the trip onboard the Santa Claus Train.
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My Humppila Day is celebrated on the last Saturday of August and the steam trains will start running already at 10:25, when the first train of the day will leave Minkiö for Humppila.
There are guide tours (in Finnnish) leaving Humppila station at 11:00 and 14:00. With the tours you will visit the cultural sites and hoistory of Humppila. My Humppila day is organised by Kulttuuriyhdistys Kuvio ry and LounaPlussa ry.
At the same time at the old windmill there will be Humppila Harvest Market.
At Minkiö station there is a cosy summer café and one can visit the narrow gauge museum. At the Café one can by fresh coffee and icecream, etc.
Welcome to enjoy the last saturday of August together with us!