Narrow Gauge Survivors in Finland

Similar information is available on these sites, it's worth comparing notes as each has a slightly different emphasis:

• A Visitor's Guide to Nordic (Scandinavian) Narrow Gauge Railways 
• Finnish Narrow Gauge Railways http://www.netti.fi/~kpaanane/narrow.htm (link dead by April 2015, includes historic postcards)

1. Jokioinen Railway, 750mm gauge

The best known of all the narrow gauge railways, it includes a narrow gauge museum at MInkiö. The official website is

• http://www.jokioistenmuseorautatie.fi

 See also

• A report of James Waite's visit in 2007.

More information is available on Wikipedia:

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokioisten_Museorautatie

2. Nykarleby Jernväg, 600mm gauge

The official website is:

• https://nykarlebyjernvag.hembygd.fi/sv/home/aka_tag/ (Link updated 20th June 2025)

More information is available on Wikipedia:

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kovjoen_museorautatie (Finnish language, use Google Translate).

3. The other narrow gauge heritage railway is the 750mm gauge Outokumpu Railway, reconstruction is shown here:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/70021
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/70011
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/63067
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/62997
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/56799

4. Strömfors (Ruotsinpyhtää in Finnish) Iron Works Forge museum:

• http://www.loviisa.fi/en/services/tourism/stromforsironworksar/sightsandservices
• http://www.stromforsinruukki.fi

The museum has a 750mm Gauge Krauss narrow gauge steam locomotive (2517/1891). It is excellent condition as It has been taken in straight from service, the photo is courtesy of Simo Ronty.

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruotsinpyht%C3%A4%C3%A4n_tehdasrata (Finnish language, use Google Translate)

5. Veturimuseo at Toijala

Primarily a Finnish broad gauge museum in an old roundhouse, they have one 600 mm gauge Move1 (Valmet/Finland) diesel locomotive and actually several narrow gauge diesel locomotives which have been rebuilt for Finnish broad gauge (Move 21/orig 750 mm, Pedershaab/orig 600 mm!)

The museum's official website is:

• http://yhdistykset-akaa.fi/veturimuseo/ (Finnish language, use Google Translate)

There are pictures at:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/71893
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/23203
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/39009
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/38997
• http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMBNFG_Veturimuseo_Akaa_Finland
• http://tampere.eventseekr.com/toijalan-veturimuseo/museums-galleries/venue/244739 (link broken by December 2021)
• http://www.museokompassi.fi/akaa/veturimuseo/ (Link broken by May 2023)

6. Fiskar’s 750mm gauge railroad, the site of "Finland's first true narrow gauge railway".

• http://www.fiskarsvillage.fi/en/culture/history/railroads (link broken by April 2015)

The railway was running on very beautiful location and there has been some talk about rebuilding the first 3 km that run along a river and lake... but nothing concrete until now. Here are some pictures of the railway (trackbed) and the locomotive:

• http://vaunut.org/kuvat/?paik=fiskars
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/57085

7. Former narrow gauge railway at Äänekoski paper mill, 750mm gauge 0-6-0T O&K 7194/1914 is preserved here

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/20145
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/20210
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/37538
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/37539

8. And there is a small train of the Riihimäki-Loppi 600mm gauge railway preserved in Riihimäki:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/69673
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/24600
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/24602
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/24603

9. In Särkijärvi there is this small electric locomotive (600mm gauge?) from the last industrial narrow gauge railway in Finland (a second locomotive from the same line is in the MInkiö narrow gauge museum on the Jokioinen Museum Railway):

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/33042

10. In Tampere there was this small electric locomotive, but a note on one picture indicates it had been moved by January 2012:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/28572
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/13692

11. In Forssa there is a small electric tram (600mm gauge?):

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/51899
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/40891

12. In Kotka there is this:1067mm gauge fireless from Hohenzollern (4552/1929):

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/58678

13. At the Finnish Peat Museum at Aitoneva is a 750mm gauge Russian power car:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/66514

14. There used to be a forest railway In Eskola, 750mm gauge.

Information is available on Wikipedia:

• http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskolan_mets%C3%A4rata (Finnish language, use Google Translate).

This is what is left:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/36997 (the loco is actually from Estonia)
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/38967 (this loco is not real, but carriages are old!)
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/14291
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/14292 (roundhouse, built of wood!)
• http://vaunut.org/kuva/11228

15. There was a short private 600mm gauge railway at Espoo, Lahnus. However, the owner has passed away and the railway has been dismantled.

• http://vaunut.org/sarja/1774

Then there are couple of "artificial" narrow gauge tourist narrow gauge railways:

In Lapland there is Tankavaara railway (1 km loop) with diesel locomotives that look like steamers:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/73309

At Tervakoski Puuhamaa amusement park there is about 1 km loop and a few locomotives:

• http://vaunut.org/kuva/72108 

At Rokua there is a long (over 3 km line) going through nice forest scenery:

• http://vaunut.org/kuvat/?paik=Rokua,%20Utaj%C3%A4rvi