6-597: The Jokioinen Museum Railway is located in Jokioinen , Finland . It is located on the last operating commercial narrow gauge railway in Finland, the 750 mm ( 2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) gauge Jokioinen Railway . The museum was established on February 2, 1978, four years after the discontinued operation of the commercially-operated railway, when the new Jokioinen Museum Railway Limited joint stock company ( Finnish : Jokioisten Museorautatie Oy ) bought
12-480: A narrow gauge museum with a collection of carriages and locomotives . There are a number other attractions in the vicinity of the railway. 60°51′46″N 023°26′17″E / 60.86278°N 23.43806°E / 60.86278; 23.43806 Jokioinen Jokioinen ( Swedish : Jockis ) is a municipality of Finland . It is located in the Tavastia Proper region . The municipality has
18-472: A population of 4,879 (31 October 2024) and covers an area of 181.94 square kilometres (70.25 sq mi) of which 1.52 km (0.59 sq mi) is water. The population density is 27.04 inhabitants per square kilometre (70.0/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish . A notable tourist attraction in the region is the Jokioinen Museum Railway . The history of Jokioinen
24-454: Is tightly connected to the Jokioinen estate, which was established in 1562. The estate developed into the largest estate in Finland during the time of the provincial governor Ernst Gustaf von Willebrand. At the beginning of 20th century the estate had a corn mill, saw mill, a brick factory, steel plant and a sugar and syrup factory. Due to the crofters law of 1918 and the land reform law of 1945
30-504: The estate was split into more than 1500 homes and small farms. The rest of the estate was transferred to the ownership of the Finnish state in 1918. In 1928 the Department of Finnish Plant Breeding from Tikkurila and in 1957 the observatory from Pasila were transferred to the Jokioinen estate. Jokioinen has a humid continental climate of the warm-summer type ( Köppen : Dfb ), typical of
36-466: The rail line from Jokioinen to Minkiö railway station , with its land and associated buildings. Museum steam trains began running that same year. In 1994 the line was extended with an 8-kilometre (5 mi) stretch between Minkiö and Humppila . The museum railway station at Humppila is beside the station of the Turku - Toijala VR line, providing a convenient access to the museum. The Minkiö station has
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