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The last charter train of the year ran on Saturday 27.9. The train was pulled by two of the vintage Move 21 diesel locomotive of Jokioinen Museum Railway. The steam locomotives were already prepared for winter the week before after the Star Light Train.
This autumn the track work funded by the Ministry of Transport and Communications will continue for the third year. Now it is the time to rehabilitate track 2, 3, and 4 at Minkiö station and also the track on Raemäki hill between Minkiö and Jokioinen. The work is done by the Museum Railway Association and VR Track Ltd. The Museum Railway Association is responsible of dismantling old tracks and delivering materials (sleepers, ballast, etc) to work locations and VR Track of building and xxx of the new tracks.
The track work will start the coming weekend 3.-5.10. and all the work should be completed in November weather permitting.
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The renovation of the Kuusankoski-Voikkaan railway is advancing fast. With a significant grant of the Kymin Osakeyhtiön 100-year trust the work has been going on already for four weeks. The first coach is already dismantled and the metal frame has been sand blasted and painted in the beginning of February. Now the wooden body frame starts to be completed and next week work on the roof and walls will be started.
After the first coach is finished it is planned to start the renovation of the second coach. Boath coaches should be in operation in summer 2009.
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The last charter train of the year was running on Wednesday 24.10. This train was also the first train to run on the newly rebuilt Minkiö yard and to cross the new Jokioinen level crossing. Track work of this autumn included rebuilding of platform tracks 1 and 3 and part of the track 2 at Minkiö station. At Jokioinen station the level crossing of Humppila Road was rebuilt.
The charter train operated made laso history in being the first train double headed by Move 21 diesel locomotives in 35 years. The train was hauled by the locomotive 3 of Jokioinen Museum Railway and the one without number "The one from Karkkila" (owned by a member of Jokioinen Museum Railway).
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Track work of this autumn started in the weekend 1.-2. September with dismantling some track. The rails and sleepers of the track number 1 at Minkiö station were completely removed. On Sunday 2.9. track on both sides of the Humppila Road level crossing at Jokioinen station was dismantled. This was in preparation of rebuilding the level crossing.
The Star Light Train on 15.9. will be running normally using the tracks 1 and 2 at the Minkiö station. When rebuilding the Humppila Rad level crossing at Jokioinen a detour has to be constructed for the road traffic.
The trackwork of autumn 2007 is funded by the Ministry of Transportation, Jokioinen Museum Railway Ltd an the Museum Railway Association. The work will be done in addition to volunteers of the Museum Railway Association by VR Track and Soraset Yhtiöt Oy.
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Jokioinen Museum Railway will commemorate the 90th birthday of Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway locomotive number 5 by publishing on Sunday 17.6. a picture postal stamp of the locomotive. Stamps will be for sale at Minkiö station cafe
The picture in stamp is drawn by a long term volunteer and a steam locomotive engineer of Jokioinen Museum Railway PTJ Koskinen.
The locomotive on the stamp, the number 5, was built by Tampella locomotive works in Tampere Finland and it was the first locomotive completed in newly independent Republic of Finland in the end of December 1917.
The locomotive served its working life at 45 km long Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway in years 1918-1967. After the railway closed down the locomotive was donated in 1969 to predecessor of the Museum Railway Association. The locomotive was repaired by volunteers in Forssa and it started the heritage train operations in Finland in 1971 by pulling the first preserved train in the country. In 1979 the locomotive was taken to VR shops in Hyvinkää for complete two year overhaul.
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The Museum Railway Association responsible of running and maintaining the Jokioinen Museum railway elected new board of directors for year 2007. The annual meeting of the association was held on Saturday at Minkiö Station in Jokioinen. Mr Teemu Virtanen will continue for the third year as a Chairman of the board. Mr Pekka Välimäki from Turku will continue as a Vice Chairman and Mr Tuomas Myllylä from Turku will continue as a Secretary.
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The cosmetically at Jokioinen Museum Railway restored steam locomotive number 3 of Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway was transported back to Karkkila on Saturday 21.10. 2006. The locomotive was placed on display in the lobby of the city hall of Karkkila.
The locomotive weighting about 35 tons was lifted in Minkiö with help of two mobile cranes and loaded on a flatbed truck. In Karkkila the locomotive was lifted atop of about 30 m long temporary track that lead through a hole made on the wall of the city hall. The locomotive was the pushed in its place with a tractor. The Karkkila city hall is an ex foundry of Högfors that was before served by Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway. Indoors the locomotive will be also protected against the elements and vandalism.
The locomotive number 3 was built by Tampella locomotive works in Tampere Finland in 1910 with a builders number 157. The builders plates were accidentally changed with another locomotive already at the builders and the locomotive has always been carrying wrong builders number 158. The locomotive weighting about 35 tons in working order is the first locomotive of type Hb 68 (LT). There were total of 3 similar locomotives built, all for Hyvinkää-Karkkila railway. The sister locomotive number 4 was built in 1911 and number 5 in 1917. Number 4 was scrapped in the beginning of 1970's and number 5 is operating at Jokioinen Museum Railway.
Number there is technically same as Loviisa-Wesijärvi number 6, but the locomotive has not a separate firewood and water tender. Number three has instead of that side tanks for water and small fuel bunker at the rear end of the locomotive for the firewood.
Originally number three was put on display at Karkkila bus station with three railway cars straight after the railway was closed down. Then the locomotive pulled its train on the location by a makeshift track made by track panels laid on the town streets. The locomotive and cars were transferred in 1993 to Jokioinen Museum Railway. The Museum Railway Association repaired cosmetically the locomotive and got the three railway cars for that work.
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On 15th of October 2006 -for the first time after 1959- The Jokioinen Railway locomotive number 5 ran on its own power on the tracks of Jokioinen Railway.
The locomotive which was transported from Wales to Finland in the beginning of October was fired up on Saturday evening and the full operating pressure of 13 kg/cm2 was reached on Sunday morning. During the previous weeks the locomotive had undergone modifications to be able to run on Jokioinen Museum Railway. For example an original steam brake system was rebuilt and couplers changed.
On Sunday the first test run was made to Jokioinen. JR 5 pulled easily a four passenger car test train over there and back. In the afternoon JR 5 got to real work by pulling a 8 car mixed train from Minkiö to Humppila to take some of the rolling stock in the winter car shed.
The locomotive crew for test trains was engineer Juha-Pekka Viitanen and fire man Georg von Pfaler. The locomotive performed well on the test runs.
The JR 5 locomotive was sold to Great Britain in 1972 and later rebuilt to operating condition at the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, where it was given a name "Orion".
Video clips of the test train on the home page of Teemu Virtanen...