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The first train of the year 2011 ran on Saturday April 9 between Minkiö and Humppila. The train was operated by the TU4 diesel locomotive without wagons. The condition of railway line was inspected after long and hard winter period. TU4 had to be also tested after maintenance works. On the same trip the train crew cut some trees and bushes next to the line at Humppila.
The track made the winter with no major damages. Also TU4 locomotive worked well. The pneumatic brake system of the locomotive was renoved at winter. Locomotive was also equipped with a cabin heater.
Charter train traffic season of Jokioinen Museum Railway will begin in May. Scheduled steam train traffic starts on June 5., when railway operator, the Museum Railway Association, will celebrate its 40th anniversary.
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(photography Tuomas Juhantila)
Photos of the first train of 2011
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Despite freezing temperatures and huge amount of snow outside, is Museum Railway workshop at Minkiö running also during winter. In locomotive shop some maintenance has been done for HKR5 steam locomotive and TU4 diesel locomotive. TU4 was recently equipped with handbrake and cabin heater. Now under maintenance is Schöma diesel locomotive and little Pedershaab diesel shunter.
The shunter will be completely renoved for Finnish Turf Museum in Aitoneva. Gauge of locomotive is 600 millimetres.
Wagon shop volunteers have been busy with former Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway coach. Outer wall plates were pre-installed during January and some of the plates were finally installed in mid-February. Also inner walls, benches and roof sections were finally painted. Next phases will be installation of window frames and painting the outer walls.
You can read more in renovation blog.
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Before summer and new traffic season of Jokioinen Museum Railway is a good time to sit down and enjoy a ride onboard steam locomotive number 6 of former Loviisa-Vesijärvi railway. A new web video is shot on July 2009 and it shows a museum train journey from Jokioinen to Humppila at Jokioinen Museum Railway.
In the main role is steam locomotive number 6, which is manufactured at Tampella works in Tampere, Finland, at 1909. Locomotive was used by 82-kilometre long Loviisa-Vesijärvi railway between Lahti and Loviisa from 1909 to 1960. After its active career, the locomotive was on display at Loviisa city. It was transported to museum railway at the beginning of 1980's. Locomotive was renoved to running condition in 1990's. It has been used on museum railway from summer of 1999.
You will find more information of LWR6 in steam locomotive site.
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Jokioinen Museum Railway event calendar for traffic season 2011 is published. The season will begin at 5. June, when railway operator, Museum Railway Association, celebrates its 40th anniversary. The program is for everyone, with no boring speeches, but much for people interested in old railways and technology.
The another highlight of season is Minkiö Steam Festival, arranged for seventh time in 2011. The funniest steam festival of Finnish summer will be in Minkiö station and depot area at last weekend of July. During two days, the festival area will be packed up with old agricultural- and other steam machines, vintage cars and of course old narrow gauge steam trains.
Steam trains runs through the summer
Museum Railway steam trains runs along 14 kilometre long narrow gauge railroad between Humppila and Jokioinen. The trains are in traffic totally in 13 Sundays and two Saturdays.
Read more in event calendar. Please note, that events and timetables are subject to change.
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Humppila railway yard located rolling stock shed repair work finished in late November. Built in the 1960s the former Tuko agricultural warehouse wall and roof panels replaced by a new coated plate. Task was huge, because the building is over 60 meter long and 20 meters wide. The contractor was local company HE Kallioinen Oy. The work finished just before snow covered the ground. The final cost of contract was 70 000 euros. The project received financial support for ministry of transport and communications.
The rolling stock shed is very important for Museum Railway, because a majority of coaches and freight cars are stored there outside of traffic periods. In addition, many small diesel shunters in variours conditions are also stored in shed.
Inside shed are five 750-millimetre-gauge tracks and a single 1524-millimetre broad-gauge track connected with state railway network. Some broad gauge diesel shunters owned by Museum Railway are stored on this track. In the future, the broad gauge track is planned to be converted into a triple-rail-track. It will make possible to store also narrow-gauge rolling stock on the track.
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The board of directors for 2011 of the Museum Railway Association, which maintains the Jokioinen Museum Railway, has been elected. The autumn meeting of the association made the personal selections on Saturday, November 27, at Minkiö in Jokioinen.
Marko Laine from Helsinki continues as chairman of the association, Lauri Niemi from Vantaa as vice-chairman, Teemu Virtanen from Lahti as secretary, and Lea Harjula from Jokioinen as cashier handling financial matters.
Anne Teirisalo from Espoo was elected as a new member of the board, and Juha-Pekka Viitanen from Jokioinen for his next term. Both have a two-year term. Janne Rutonen from Hämeenlinna will continue on the board until the end of his two-year term in 2011. Kalevi Sillanpää from Punkalaidun was elected to continue as a deputy member of the board.
In addition to personnel selection, the autumn meeting confirmed the 2011 budget and action plan of the Museum Railway Association. In addition to the museum train service, the main focuses of the 2011 activities are the renovation of the buildings of the Minkiö museum depot area and the preparation of large-scale future construction projects. These include, among other things, a new storage hall for museum equipment and the complete renovation of the railway line.
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Museum Raiway Association participate to the national Model Railroading Event on 23-24 October in Helsinki. Come to meet us in stand A3 and hear more about our activities and Jokioinen Museum Railway!
Humppila stone crushing plant level crossing was restored for the first time in the spring, when the low level truck trailer accidentally tore off the rails. During the summer the rails began to sink because of the continuous and heavy truck traffic. Now the rail element made in spring was lifted off and soft sand basement was dug off and replaced with much heavier stone rubble. Finally the rail element was installed back, the spaces between rails were filled with rubble and a new asphalt surface was spread on the road and level crossing.
At Minkiö the railway crosses with busy Kiipuntie road. In level crossing the old wood planks between rails did not last for heavy trucks and agricultural machines and they began to sink and loose. Level crossing is repaired by removing the old planks lane at a time and filling the spaces between the rails with sand and asphalt. So the road traffc was able to run during entire work.
See more work photos in image gallery.
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Two level crossings were restored in Jokioinen Museum Railway at the end of September. Crossing of railway and new road leading to stone crushing plant was repaired in 28.9. Kiipuntie road and railway crossing next to Minkiö station was repaired in 29.9.
Humppila stone crushing plant level crossing was restored for the first time in the spring, when the low level truck trailer accidentally tore off the rails. During the summer the rails began to sink because of the continuous and heavy truck traffic. Now the rail element made in spring was lifted off and soft sand basement was dug off and replaced with much heavier stone rubble. Finally the rail element was installed back, the spaces between rails were filled with rubble and a new asphalt surface was spread on the road and level crossing.
At Minkiö the railway crosses with busy Kiipuntie road. In level crossing the old wood planks between rails did not last for heavy trucks and agricultural machines and they began to sink and loose. Level crossing is repaired by removing the old planks lane at a time and filling the spaces between the rails with sand and asphalt. So the road traffc was able to run during entire work.
See more work photos in image gallery.