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The former Jokioinen Railway steam locomotive number 5 will return at her home at Jokioinen Museum Railway after nearly 35 years in Great Britain. At the locomotive shed of Jokioinen Museum Railway the number four, a sister locomotive of the number five is already waiting.
The locomotive which was before used at Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway arrived at the harbor of Harwich on Friday 29.9. at 13.30 hours local time and was loaded on board M/S Estraden of Man Lines at 17.00 hours. The estimated arrival time of the ship at Turku harbor is on Tuesday 3.10. at 06.30 hours. The locomotive will be moved the same day on road transport to Jokioinen Museum Railway depot at Minkiö.
The locomotive was built at the Tubize workshop in Nivelle, Belgium in 1948 and bought by Jokioinen railway to replace their newest and most powerful Henschel locomotive which had to be given to Soviet Union because of war payments of Finland were late of schedule.
Number five was used together with its sister locomotive number four to haul heavy goods trains of Jokioinen Railway until 1960s and until 1951 also to pull the passenger trains. JR 5 was removed of service in 1964 because of cracks in its firebox and until 1972 it was placed in a small hut built around the locomotive at Jokioinen station.
In 1972 the Tubize was bought by an Englishman who aimed to renovate the locomotive placed then in Wisbeck. However the owner had to give up the locomotive and the Tubize was bought by Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.
At WLLR the number five was staying for few years on display, until in the mid 1990s the renovation work started. A new firebox was made and the locomotive was completely overhauled. In autumn 2000 everything was ready and the locomotive was running again.
Because of its large size and heavy weight the locomotive was however not suitable for a hilly WLLR with some tight turns, and in the beginning of 2006 the WLLR informed they are willing to sell it.
After long negotiations in the beginning of September a four man group of Jokioinen Museum Railway left for Llanfair to inspect and test drive the locomotive. Soon after this the contract was made and the locomotive will arrive in Finland on 3.10. after almost 35 years abroad.
More photos of JR 5 on the home page of Tapani Havia...
Read more on the home page of the WLLR...
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The Minkiö Steam Festival will be organised also in summer 2007. The board of the Museum Railway Association decided that a two day festival will be on 28.-29.7. 2007. More information about the festival can be found on the web pages of Jokioinen Museum Railway and at the address www.hoyryfestivaali.fi during spring 2007.
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On Sunday 18th of June Jokioinen Museum Railway will publish a postage stamp. The picture in a stamp is similar to ones used on railway parcel stamps of Finnish railways. On Sunday 18th of June at the Minkiö station there is a possibility to buy the stamp together with a special cancellation. On the same day there are special 1901 H.K. Porter hauled steam trains running from Humppila station.
Jokioinen railway was the last railway in Finland to use railway parcel stamps. Railway parcel stamps were used on parcels sent by rail the same way as postage stamps are used for postal parcels and letters. Jokioinen railway cased to use the railway parcel stamps in 1963.
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The annual meeting of shareholder of Jokioisten Museorautatie Oy (Jokioinen Museum Railway Ltd) will be kept at the Jokioinen town hall on Tuesday the 28th of March 2006 at 1 PM. All the share holders are welcome.
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The regional Häme day of 2006 will be organized with Minkiö steam festival on the 29th and the 30th of July 2006. The Regional Council of Häme selected on Monday the 13th of February Minkiö steam festival as the Häme day of 2006 among 25 applicants.
According to the Regional Council the Minkiö steam festival presents the history of countryside and industry e.g.. with steam train trips and work demonstrations with different kind of portable steam engines.
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The Museum Railway Association elected a new board of members for year 2006. The annual meeting of the association was held on Sunday 27th of November at Minkiö Station in Jokioinen.
Teemu Virtanen (29) from Lahti will continue as the chairman of the board for a second one year period. Tuomas Myllylä (24) from Vantaa is the new secretary of the association and a new board member is Tapani Havia (28) from Vihti. All the other old board members will continue on the board.
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The Minkiö Steam Festival on Sunday 31st of July was a great success! Total of 1800 people visited the one day festival, which makes the festival the biggest selling event at Jokioinen Museum Railway. The steam festival was organized together with Kiipu village association and different steam and gasoline engine groups.
The stars of the festival were five old portable steam engines in operation. The engines were powering e.g. an old Sampo threshing machine (in picture above), a circular saw, a hay pole sharpening machine. I addition there were several running portable gasoline engines in operation.
The festival was also first day of operation in scheduled traffic for the newly renovated ex-Äänekoski-Suolahden railway 1901 H.K.Porter steam locomotive. The H.K. Porter pulled a special train for invited guests from Minkiö to Jokioinen and back. The locomotive had been presented to press the Monday before. All together there were four steam engines running and five on display on that day.
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The ex Äänekoski-Suolahden Railway H.K. Porter steam locomotive made its first moves at Minkiö depot on Saturday evening 18. of June at about 18.30 after standing still almost 40 years. Test runs at Minkiö station continued for about an hour. Also first tests to pull a train were made when the locomotive moved a six carriage long train.
The runs went well and the over 100 years old locomotive worked quite well. There were some minor steam leaks and one of a bearings of a rear wheel set heated up a little bit. However this bearing problem leveled out when test runs continued the following day.