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Today at Jokioinen Museum Railway two steam locomotives were inspected. The Belgium made 1948 Tubize of ex Jokioinen Railway passed operational inspection and the US made 1901 H.K. Porter of ex Äänekoski- Suolahden Railway passed internal inspection.
Steam locomotives are pressure vessels and their operation, service and inspection are regulated by laws and regulations. Frequent inspections and good service and care guarantee the steam locomotive operations of Jokioinen Museum Railway to be safe and to preserve steam locomotives for future generations.
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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 just in the beginning of July is the time of the traditional Minkiö farmers' market. Thousands of people crowd the market at Minkiö station and ride steam trains to Humppila and Jokioinen. On this Sunday there are two steam trains in operation from morning to late afternoon.
At Minkiö station it is also possible to ride on hand cars.
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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The traditional train to celebrate the Midsummer's Eve's Eve will be running at Jokioinen Museum Railway again on Thursday 20.6. 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 20.6.2013 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 19.20. Return trains from Enttu starting at 22.40 and arriving at Humppila at 22.45, Minkiö at 23.20 and Jokioinen at 23.40. Trains will stop on request at all halts and railway crossings.
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In the coming weekend are the Humppila Days. To celebrate that steam trains will be Running from Humppila Station to Kernmala halt and back. Also the cafe at Humppila station will be open!
In addition to normal scheduled trains there is a special Humppila Day train running between Humppila station and Kermala halt. The first train of the day calls Humppila at 10.27 and the last train will leave Humppila at 16.05. Trip on the special Kermala train costs 5 euros for adults and 2,5 euros for children. You can also take the special train with a normal day ticket of Jokioinen Museum Railway.
It is also posiible to make a longer steam train trip from Humppila to Minkiö or Jokioinen by taking one of the normal scheduled trains.
For more information please check the Event Calendar!
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The TU4 locomotive which was repaired during winter returned to service in mid May. While under repair for example the transmission was changed to new and the old radiator was repaired. Also the electrical system was repaired, brakes fixed and windscreen wipers installed.
Also the renovation of Jokioinen Railway Tubize steam locomotive has continued. all the tubes are already in and the new smoke box installed in its place.
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The scheduled steam train traffic started on Sunday 2.6. The event calendar and timetable of Jokioinen Museum Railway for operating season 2013 is also online. The season started like always with the Minkiö Antique Car Day at Minkiö station on Sunday June 2. There were no long speeches on that day but old and also newer antique cars filling the Minkiö station and old steam trains were running on narrow rails.
The main event of the season is the Minkiö Steam Festival, organized already for the nineth time in 2013. The best steam festival of the summer will be organized the last weeken of July, 28. - 28.7. at Minkiö station. The two day event will have several stationary steam engines, running steam locomotives, stationary agricultural gasoline engines old vehicles and of course the old narrow gauge trains running on the tracks of Jokioinen Museum Railway.
Steam trains runnin all the summer
In 2013 steam trains are running on the 14 km track between Jokioinen and Humppila on 13 summer Sundays of June, July, and August. In addition there will be the traditional diesel hauled Mid Summer train to Mid Summer part at Enttu dance pavilion in Humppila on Thursday 20.6. and steam trains running on Saturday 27.7. during Minkiö Steam festival. The operating season will end with the Star Light Train on Saturday 14.9.
Read more about the events of Jokioinen Museum railway at our event calendar. We reserve the right to change prises, timetables and events, so please check the events regularly.
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A good sign of coming spring is all the work that has started at the Jokioinen Museum Railway. This time in addition to a steam locomotive hand cars were under renovation. Fendesr of the hand cars were fixed and some adjustments were made to the gauge of wheel sets. Now it will be even more njoyable to rent a hand car and take a trip on rails of the Jokioinen Museum Railway. The hand cars can be rented as soon as the snow cover has melted and rails are agin visible!
In the photo above Marko Tuominen and Lauri Niemi are fitting the new fenders. During the past weekend the old storage building of Minkiös station got newly renovated doors!
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While the spring sun is shining on the white snow outside, inside the workshop a lot of work has been done on Tubize boiler renovation. After hard work almost all the tubes are already in their place and the smoke box ends are expanded. After all the tubes are in it is the time to call the welder on the site to weld the fire box end of the tubes.
Also the smoke box has been fitted on its place and the next phase will be drilling of 250 holes for the bolts to fix the smoke box in to the boiler. Meanwhile many smaller parts of the boiler have been cleaned and fixed. There will be still a lot of work before the boiler is completely ready. In despite this the water pressure tests of the boiler are scheduled for this summer and after that there is left the final inspection before the locomotive can be running again at the traffic at the Jokioinen Museum Railway.
