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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!
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It is again time for the Minkiö Steam Festival! The Festival will be held at the Minkiö station on the last weekend of July on 28.-29.7.
At the Minkiö Steam Festival one can see running stationary steam engines and demonstrations of how they were used. There will be also four steam trains running from Humppila and Jokioinen Stations to the festival grounds at Minkiö station. In addition there will be a free museum coach service from Forssa and Loimaa to Jokioinen railway station.
For the kids there is a special kids corner with a railway themed jumping castle and also possibility to ride on a real horse.
For more information please check our event calendar!
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It is again time for Minkiö Farmers' Market. Tables fill with interesting thingsto buy and steam trains are bringing people to the market. Minkiö station is full of market spirit and sounds of steam locomotives!
On the Farmers' market weekend there will be two steam trains running at the Jokioinen museum Railway and you can take a train from Humppila and Jokioinen once about in every hour. You can also start your train trip at Minkiö, but because of limited parking at Minkiö we wish you would arrive at the market by a train!
For more information and the timetables please check our event calendar!
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This summer there is a photography exhibition of a photographer Mathias Luther at the Minkiö Station of Jokioinen Museum Railway. The exhibition is about people behind the musuem railway.
The photos are peeking in the lives of people behind the railway as people are wearing their normal clothes, not uniforms or overalls you usually see people wearing at the railway.
Trains, railways, traffic and all action around rolling stock is photographed a lot. This exhibition pays attention to something else. Photos are of people doing voulntary work at the railway -not all of them but about twenty people. Also a man working to maintain the track of railway is photographed.
Without them this preserved railway would not be a live and attarctive place to visit.
In fact, without them the railway would not exist.
Some of the still active memebres of the Museum Railway Association were already in the 1970s saving the railway of the dismantling and helped starting the regular museum train operations in 1978. Now the importance of the museum railway to the image, tourism and dignity of the region has been realized.
The exhibition "Railwaymen by Love" is made of about twenty black and white photographs. The exhibition is in an old VR box car (GB-car) at Minkiö station just next to the Minkiö Café.
The opening times of yhe exhibition are same as the opening times of the Narrow Gauge Museum and Café.
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The first charter trains of thi spring ran in summer heat. On Tuesday 15.5. there were several charter trains running between Minkiö and Jokioinen for pre school and daycare groups. Because of very hot and dry conditions some precaution had to be taken to avoid grass fires.
Children were really happy to see real old steam locomotive and to travel onboard rocking old train. For the most probably the best part of the day was a visit to real locmotive cab. Even a very hot summer weather with temperatures reaching 30 C did not slow down the small ones.
Scheduled steam trains of Jokioinen Museum Railway will start running on Sunday 3.6. The café, hand trolly rental and the Narrow Gauge Museum have already opened on 14.5. They are all open during week from 11 am to 6 pm. You can also rent hand trollies in weekends if reserving in advance.