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Two ex Kuusankoski-Voikkaa railway passanger cars are under renovation Aat the Jokioinen Museum Railway. The work is beeing done with support of Kymin Osakeyhtiön 100-vuotissäätiö foundation and the cars should be ready and running in 2010. The cars that have been standing outside for tens of years were in very bad condition and lot of the wood structures have to be rebuilt.
You can follow the progress of renovation with this blog. You can read the blog directly from here.
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The year 2010 board of the Museum Railway Association, an association which maintains and operates the Jokioinen Museum Railway has been elected. The annual meeting of the association was held on last Saturday in Minkiö.
Marko Laine from Helsinki was elected as a President of the association. He will replace Markku Nikander in the post in the begin of January. The Vice President continues to be Lauri Niemi from Vantaa. As a new secretary was elected Teemu Virtanen from Lahti.
Janne Rutonen from Hämeenlinna was elected to replace new President Marko Laine as a board member. All other board members were re-elected.
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Two important turnouts of track number 1 of Minkiö yard will be fully rebuilt in winter 2009-2010. In the weekend 24.-25.10 the turnouts were removed in elements with the help of an excavator and piled next to a road. Today 3.11. the elements were picked up by a truck and taken to a shop for a complete rebuild. The points, frogs and the mechanism will be rebuilt and new cross ties installed. The renovated turnouts will be put back in their place in spring 2010. This work is part of the Minkiö yard rebuilding which started in 2006.
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The TU4 diesel hydraulic locomotive arrived at Jokioinen Museum Railway on Thursday October 29 after being fully rebuilt in Estonia. Testing of locomotive started immediately after the locomotive was crane lifted on rails and continued the following day. The locomotive has already been running to Humppila several times both hauling a train and as a single locomotive.
After two days of tests the four axle locomotive with a 290 horse power Scania engine is really showing its real skin. The trucks of the TU4 locomotive are very well designed and the locomotive is running really well with speeds up to 50 km/h. The locomotive is also quite easy to operate.
The locomotive built in 1970 in ex Soviet Union has been fully overhauled at the ship yard of Baltic Marine Group in Tallinn. Some additions and adjustments will be still added to the locomotive at the Jokioinen Museum Railway. For example a hand brake and a new cab heating system will be built and bearings of one axle will be replaced.
Pictures of crane lifting the TU4 locomotive and its first test runs on 29.-30.10.2009
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Video of the fist test run of TU4 locomotive with a train on 30.10.2009
Pictures of the locomotive in Lithuania and while overhauled in Estonia
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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.