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Finnish Railway Museum

Index Finnish Railway Museum

The Finnish Railway Museum (Suomen Rautatiemuseo) is located in Hyvinkää, Finland. [1]

64 relations: Alstom, American Locomotive Company, Backyard railroad, Beyer, Peacock and Company, Builder's plate, Finland, Finnish Steam Locomotive Class A5, Finnish Steam Locomotive Class B1, Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C1, Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C5, Finnish Steam Locomotive Class F1, Hanko–Hyvinkää railway, Hanomag, Helsinki, Heritage railway, History of rail transport in Finland, Hyvinkää, Jokioinen Museum Railway, LEW Hennigsdorf, List of Finnish locomotives, List of heritage railways, List of railway museums, Live steam, Lokomo, Neilson and Company, Petrol-paraffin engine, Restored train, Russian locomotive class Ye, Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Tampella, Train ride, Tsar, Valmet, VR (company), VR Class Dm7, VR Class Dr12, VR Class Dr13, VR Class Ds1, VR Class Hr1, VR Class Hr11, VR Class Hv1, VR Class Pr1, VR Class Rro, VR Class Sk1, VR Class Sk3, VR Class Tk3, VR Class Tr1, VR Class Tve2, VR Class Vk11, VR Class Vk3, ..., VR Class Vk4, VR Class Vr1, VR Class Vr3, 0-10-0, 0-4-0, 0-4-2, 0-4-4T, 0-6-0, 2-10-0, 2-6-0, 2-6-4, 2-8-2, 4-4-0, 4-6-0. Expand index (14 more) »

Alstom

Alstom is a French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets, active in the fields of passenger transportation, signalling and locomotives, with products including the AGV, TGV, Eurostar, and Pendolino high-speed trains, in addition to suburban, regional and metro trains, and Citadis trams.

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American Locomotive Company

The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.

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Backyard railroad

A backyard railroad is a privately owned, outdoor railroad, most often in miniature, but large enough for one or several persons to ride on.

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Beyer, Peacock and Company

Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester.

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Builder's plate

A builder's plate is usually a metal plate that is attached to rolling stock, bogies, construction equipment, trucks, automobiles, large household appliances, bridges, ships and more.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Finnish Steam Locomotive Class A5

The Finnish Steam Locomotive Class A5 was a class of two locomotives, being the first class of locomotive manufactured in Finland.

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Finnish Steam Locomotive Class B1

The Finnish Steam Locomotive Class B1 is an 0-4-2 saddle tank locomotive, built by Beyer, Peacock and Company, at their Gorton Foundry, Manchester, England.

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Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C1

The Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C1s were typical of the Victorian principles of locomotive design and the British 0-6-0 of the period with inside cylinders and Stephenson link motion.

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Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C5

The Finnish Steam Locomotive Class C5 were ordered in 1880 by the Finnish State Railways from the German Hanomag factory for the Tampere-Vaasa railway line.

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Finnish Steam Locomotive Class F1

Finnish Steam Locomotive Class F1 was a class of tank locomotives, which did not have to be turned at terminal stations.

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Hanko–Hyvinkää railway

The Hanko–Hyvinkää Railroad, 1872–1875 (Hangö–Hyvinge Järnväg), was Finland's first privately funded railway.

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Hanomag

Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG) was a German producer of steam locomotives, tractors, trucks and military vehicles in Hanover.

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Helsinki

Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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History of rail transport in Finland

The history of rail transport in Finland began on January 31, 1862, with the opening of the railway line between Helsinki and Hämeenlinna.

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Hyvinkää

Hyvinkää (Hyvinge) is a town and municipality of Finland.

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Jokioinen Museum Railway

The Jokioinen Museum Railway is located in Jokioinen, Finland.

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LEW Hennigsdorf

The rail vehicle factory in Hennigsdorf, Germany, was founded in 1910 by AEG.

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List of Finnish locomotives

This is a list of locomotives and multiple units that have been used in Finland.

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List of heritage railways

List of heritage railways is a comprehensive listing of heritage railways sorted by country, state or region.

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List of railway museums

A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment.

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Live steam

Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler.

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Lokomo

Oy Lokomo Ab was a Finnish manufacturer of railroad equipment and steam locomotives, situated in Tampere, Finland.

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Neilson and Company

Neilson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Petrol-paraffin engine

A petrol-paraffin engine (United Kingdom) or gasoline-kerosene engine (North America) is an old-fashioned type of dual-fuel internal combustion engine with spark-ignition, designed to start on petrol (gasoline) and then to switch to run on paraffin (kerosene) once the engine is warm.

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Restored train

Restored trains are historic trains that have been removed from service and later restored to their past condition, as opposed to having never been removed from service, like UP 844, the only U.S. steam locomotive to never be retired.

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Russian locomotive class Ye

The Russian locomotive class Ye, and subclasses Yea, Yek, Yel, Yef, Yem, Yemv and Yes (Russian: Паровоз Е; Еа, Ек, Ел, Еф, Ем, Емв and Ес) were a series of 2-10-0 locomotives built by American builders for the Russian railways in World War I and again in World War II.

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Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works

Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (German Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik; French Société Suisse pour la Construction de Locomotives et de Machines; or for both, SLM) was a railway equipment manufacturer based in Winterthur in Switzerland.

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Tampella

Oy Tampella Ab was a Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging.

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Train ride

A train ride consists of miniature trains capable of carrying people.

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Tsar

Tsar (Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic: ц︢рь or цар, цaрь), also spelled csar, or czar, is a title used to designate East and South Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers of Eastern Europe.

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Valmet

The Valmet Corporation is a Finnish company and a developer and supplier of technologies, automation systems and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries.

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VR (company)

VR (formally VR Group) is a government-owned railway company in Finland.

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VR Class Dm7

The Dm6 and Dm7 were diesel multiple units built by Valmet in the 1950s and 1960s for Valtionrautatiet.

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VR Class Dr12

VR Class Dr12 (original designation Hr12) was a heavy diesel locomotive of Valtionrautatiet (Finnish State Railways).

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VR Class Dr13

VR Class Dr13 (before 1 January 1976 called Hr13) was a heavy diesel locomotive used by VR Group.

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VR Class Ds1

The VR Class Ds1 was the first railbus of the Finnish State Railways.

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VR Class Hr1

Hr1 class (original classification P1) was the largest passenger express steam locomotive built in Finland.

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VR Class Hr11

The VR Class Hr11 was the first class of line-haul diesel locomotives used by Valtionrautatiet (Finnish State Railways).

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VR Class Hv1

The Finnish Hv1 class (original classification 'H8') was a 4-6-0 express passenger train locomotive.

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VR Class Pr1

VR Class Pr1 (original classification N1, nickname Paikku, from Finnish “paikallinen”, local) was a tank steam locomotive for local passenger services of Finnish railways.

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VR Class Rro

VR Class Rro comes from a word RautatieRakennusOsasto which is the RailwayConstruction Department.

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VR Class Sk1

The VR Class Sk1, originally known as the Finnish Steam Locomotive Classes G1, G2 & G4, were a series of 60 2-6-0 locomotives built for the Finnish State Railways by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works in 1885.

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VR Class Sk3

The VR Class Sk3, originally known as the Finnish Steam Locomotive Classes G3, G5, G10 & G11, was a class of 88 2-6-0 steam locomotives, built for the Finnish State Railways from 1892 to 1903 at Tampella.

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VR Class Tk3

The Finnish VR Class Tk3 (original classification 'K5') was a 2-8-0 light freight locomotive.

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VR Class Tr1

Before 1942 VR Class Tr1s originally had the class name was R1.

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VR Class Tve2

VR Class Tve2 was a VR Group diesel shunting locomotive.

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VR Class Vk11

The VR Class Vk11 No 101 locomotive was purchased for testing on a six-mile stretch of track between Vuokatti and Sotkamo, where the use of steam locomotives had proved to be uneconomical due to low traffic.

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VR Class Vk3

The VR Class Vk3 was originally called the Finnish Steam Locomotive Class I3.

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VR Class Vk4

The locomotive that came to form VR Class Vk4 was originally one of a pair of 0-4-0T locomotives ordered from Rheinmetall Borsig Lokomotiv Werke (AEG), Germany to work at Ino fortress at Terijoki on the Karelian Isthmus.

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VR Class Vr1

Before 1942 VR Class Vr1s originally had the class name was L1.

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VR Class Vr3

Before 1942 VR Class Vr3s originally had the class name was O1.

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0-10-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles and no trailing wheels.

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0-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.

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0-4-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement with no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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0-4-4T

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-4 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles.

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0-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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2-10-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and no trailing wheels.

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2-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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2-6-4

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a locomotive has two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels.

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2-8-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck.

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4-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.

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4-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the configuration of four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Railway_Museum

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