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You can meet Jokioinen Museum Railway at Tampere Trave Fair on 20.-22.4. We will be at Forssa region stand and ready to talk with you!
Welcome to our stand and to pick up our ne brochure and timetable!
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According to the statistics of year 2017 a total of 825 trains operated on the track of Jokioinen Museum Railway. This is the highest number of trains ever operated at Jokioinen Museum railway. This means that during operating season an average of four trains were ran every day. Out of the total number of trains 346 were related to passenger traffic, 375 were work trains and 104 other trains, like track inspection trains or moving empty carriages between stations.
Total number of 18 126 voyages were made on passenger trains. That was a 11% increase compared to 16 324 voyages in 2016. Number of passenger kilometres was 122 972, when the same number in the previous year had been 108 404. This was an increase of 13% compared to year before. Total of 171 hand trollies were rented out in summer 2017.
About half of the people travelled during the three largest events. The busiest event of the year was Minkiö Steam Festival when 24% of all voyages were made. Number two event was the Santa Claus Train with 16% of the yearly voyages and the third largest event was the Starlight Train & Children's Agricultural Show with 11% of annual voyages recorded on that day.
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Timetables for year 2018 are now published. Timetables and events follow the pattern of previous years. The biggest change is that in August 2018 the trains will run on Saturdays instead of Sunday.
The main reason to change the operating day from Sunday to Saturday is the very early end of school summer vacation this year. Children will be back in the school after the first weekend of August. We were figuring it will be easier for people to visit the Jokioinen Museum Railway on Saturdays, when you have full day to enjoy without needing to hurry back to home.
The traditional events of the year are:
- Minkiö Veteran Car Day on the first Sunday of June 3.6.2018
- Minkiö Farmers' Market on the first Sunday of July 1.7.2018
- Minkiö Steam Festival on the last weekend of July 8.-29.7.2018
- Starlight Train & Children's Agricultural Show on the second Saturday of September 8.9.2018
- The Santa Claus Train on the first Saturday of December 1.12.2018
You can check the timetables and event by clicking the link on top of this page. Welcome to a train ride at Jokioinen Museum Railway!
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The artist of Christmas card is PTJ Koskinen, a steam locomotive engineer of Jokioinen Museum Railway. On the card Santa Claus is running his train pulled by the HKR5 steam locomotive "Sohvi". The locomotive will turn 100 years just after Christmas.
This autumn a long gone switch for the old Sand Spur was reinstalled in between Minkiö and Humppila stations and Santa seems to be unaware of that. He has managed to take his train to the Sand Spur instead of going straight to Humppila. Peter, his reindeer is playing very stubborn and blocking the mainline and elves have decided that it is time to have a break at the Sand Spur camp fire place.
Let's hope Santa gets the situation solved and is able to deliver all the presents as expected..
You can also visit our image gallery to view Museum Railway Christmas greetings of past years. All of them are drawn by PTJ Koskinen.
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On Saturday the 2.12. both 100 years of Finland and 100 years of the steam locomotive HKR5 Sohvi was celebrated at the Jokioinen Museum Railway. The weather was more than perfect with a fresh coat of snow and everybody seemed to have a great time. Thank you for everybody for a great 100 years party!
Also Santa wants to thank everybody travelling with him or his elves. At Minkiö tehre was a tiny christmas market and everybody could get hot drinks and ginger bread at the station cafe.
On board trains there was a christmas elf making people sing and santa with his little helpers giving candy to the small ones. Total of 2500 passanger were counted taking trains, so a big thanks to everybody who wwas over there!
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The new online webshop of Jokioinen Museum Railway is now open. You can visit the new shop by clicking the link: kauppa.jokioistenmuseorautatie.fi.
We welcome all feedback through the webshop!
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On the coming Sunday 2.7. with the people swarming the traditional Minkiö Farmers' Market, steam locomotie buffing and a vintage diesel locomotive mouring a new art exhibiton will open up at the old Minkiö Station goods shed. The Exhibition has a collection of works of PTJ Koskinen, one of the steam locomotive engineers of Jokioinen Museum Railway.
On of the perls of the exhibition are the Christmas Cards sent out by Jokioinen Museum Railway to its supporters during the past 15 years. On thos pictures you can find familar locomotives, carriages, places and people of Jokioinen Museum Railway, and of course the alter ego of the artist himshelf!
The exhibition will be open from 11 to 18 on the days when the Narrow Gauge Museum and Cafe is open at Minkiö station and from 10 to 17 on Sunadys when scheduled trains are running.
You cand look at some of the works throug a lin on the top of this page.
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The first charter train of this spring was running in sunny weather on Tuesday May 16 2017. The train was carrying a group of enthusiastic kindergarten children spotting all kind of animals alongside of the track. They did se at least hares, a deer, seagulls and a cat, but nobody saw a pheasant. Children were also admiring a cloud coming out of the steam locomotive and following the train just outside carriage windows all the voyage!
The train was hauled by the oldest operating steam locomotive of Jokioinen Museum Railway -the ex Äänekoski-Suolahti Railway H.K. Porter locomotive from year 1901. The locomotive is a saturated steam locomotive missing the super heaters which heat up and dry the steam. Because of this the locomotive will make really nice white clouds of steam in right kind of weather.
You can charter a private train at Jokoinen Museum Railway until beginning of December. The scheduled trains for public will be running on summer Sundays and special event days starting from June.