P15, Salminen, Jokioinen Museum Railway - July 26th 2009

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In English:

It's a sunny but windy day during the Minkiö Steam Festival helded at the Jokioinen Museum Railway.
Here we see the ex- Hyvinkää - Karkkila Railway (HKR) locomotive #5 "Sohvi" pulling an festival train number 15 pass the flagstop of Salminen, about 2 kilometers south from the station of Minkiö.

Somewhere in the bushes you can see me, flagging the signals to the crew.
Yes, I was dispatching at Salminen during this years Steam Festival, on sunday I sat there all alone, keeping an eye open for the traffic. My duty was to make sure, that no passenger train arriving from Jokioinen (coming from the opposite direction than this #15) does not pass Salminen, until Minkiö informs me that the route is clear for the train.
That's because there was a single steam locomotive (LWR #6 "Helga") making several runs beetween Minkiö and Salminen, giving the visitors an opportunity to ride inside the cab.

This signal (green flag rolling clockwise) allows the train to pass this station, and proceed forward to the next station. The engineer answers to this signal by using his high-tone whistle: one long, followed by one short.

In Finnish:

Sunnuntai-iltapäivä on varsin helteinen, mutta kovasti puhkuva tuuli viilentää oloja peltomaisemassa. Salmisen junanlähettäjä, eli siis tässä tapauksessa allekirjoittanut, antaa opastelipulla ohikulkuluvan pikajunalle 15 (Humppila - Minkiö - Jokioinen), johon "Sohvin" (HKR #5) miehistö vastaa vihellinopasteella.

Salmisen seisake toimi Minkiön Höyryfestivaalien aikana kääntöpaikkana veturijunalle (LWR #6 "Helga"), joka kuljetti festivaaliyleisöä veturin hytissä Minkiöltä Salmisiin ja takaisin. Jotta liikenne sujuisi turvallisesti, oli Salmisiin järjestettävä junanlähettäjä.
Junanlähettäjän pääasiallisena tehtävänä oli vartioida, etteivät Jokioisista saapuvat junat ohita Salmista, ennen kuin Minkiön junanlähettäjä myöntää luvan. Myös yhteenajovaaran riskiä pienennettiin junanlähettäjän avulla.

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  • on se ihanaa asua jokioisella

  • olen ollut kyydissä!

  • nice! I seem to recall somewhere the dispatcher gave the loco driver a 'ring' that let him travel to the next point...no ring, no travel...sorry but it's just a weak memory :)

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