Heritage Steam Train Locomotive Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 | Nokia-Siuro Stations, South Finland (10/2021)

Meet the Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 locomotive, which was the largest and most powerful passenger steam locomotive on the Finnish railways.

The Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 locomotive hauled a scheduled heritage train on October 16, 2021: Tampere - Tesoma - Nokia - Siuro (train MUS1942) and back (train MUS1943). This video is from the train stops at the Nokia city and Siuro village stations.

Höyryveturimatkat 1009 Oy is responsible for operating and marketing the steam train. The company's office is in the Kouvola city, where the Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 locomotive has its own stall at the Kouvola depot. The locomotive is operated on all the railway tracks in different parts of Finland for approximately 10,000 km per year. You can join scheduled heritage train trips, or charter your own steam train.

https://hoyryveturimatkat1009.fi/en/

Nowadays, only this Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 is in traffic in Finland. However, most of the Hr1 Ukko-Pekka locomotives have been preserved in other ways.

The Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 locomotive was restored at Pieksämäki's old locomotive depot under the ownership of Nigel Sill from London who financed and directed the restoration. The locomotive was re-approved for railway traffic in 1993. On May 22, 1993, Hr1 1009 made its maiden journey of its new season from Pieksämäki to Joensuu and back.

The Hr1 Ukko-Pekka 1009 locomotive represents the locomotive production of the shortage period after the Second World War. Because of this, it has aluminum numbers and number plates instead of brass ones. In other respects, 1009 is a typical representative of its series.

The Hr1 class (original classification P1 before 1942) was the largest passenger express steam locomotive built in Finland. The class's nickname was "Ukko-Pekka” after the President of Finland Pehr Evind Svinhufvud.

In the 1930s, there was a need for faster and heavier express trains in Finland, and the Hv1–Hv3 classes were not powerful enough to fill the need. Lokomo Oy in Tampere built first two prototypes, and after successful trials 20 more were built. Total 22 Hr1 locomotives were built between the years 1937–1957. Lokomo Oy built 14 and Oy Tampella Ab 8 locomotives. The Hr1s were numbered 1000–1021.

The Hr1 locomotive's wheel arrangement is 4-6-2 and the maximum permitted speed is 110 km. The mass of the locomotive is 93 tons, but in working condition its total mass is increased by about 63 tons of water and coal.

The Hr1 was built for coal firing, but during the coal shortage after the war in 1945, birch wood was used as fuel. Larger chimneys needed for extinguishing wood sparks were temporarily fitted.

The Hr1s were the most important express steam locomotives of the Finnish State Railways (VR, Valtionrautatiet) until 1963, when diesel locomotives started to replace steam. Their use ended officially in 1971, but two Hr1s equipped with roller bearings were brought back to use for a short time in the spring of 1974. One locomotive, 1005, was a participant in the worst peacetime railroad accident in Finland, the Kuurila accident, in 1957.

Hr1 specifications:
Max permitted speed: 110 km/h
Manufacturer: Lokomo
Year of construction: 1948
Length over buffers 22.15 metres
Weight 155 tonnes
Power 1591 hp
Wheel arrangement 4-6-2 (Pacific)
Driving wheels 1900 mm diameter
Superheated temperature 350 degrees C
Coal capacity 9 tonnes
Wood logs capacity 16 m3
Water capacity 27 m3

The city of Nokia is some 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Tampere in South Finland. Nokia is the biggest (population 34,300) suburb of the large city of Tampere. The telecommunication company Nokia is named after the city of Nokia.

The Nokia company has no longer any operations in the city of Nokia. The only current presence of the Nokia company in the city is the old industrial area along the Nokianvirta river. Its most central and oldest location is the iconic industrial island of Tehdassaari (Factory Island). Tehdasaari is the birthblace of the Nokia company (Nokia Ab). Tehdassaari has the oldest existing factory buildings of the Nokia corporation (built in 1885-1969).

Siuro is a village in the western part of the Nokia city. Siuro is less than ten kilometers from the city center of Nokia and 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Tampere.

Oy Lokomo Ab was a Finnish manufacturer of railroad equipment and steam locomotives, situated in Tampere, Finland. The company was founded in 1915 by a group of Finnish businesspeople, including Jalmar Castrén and Emil Aaltonen. The Lokomo factories in Tampere later merged into the Metso Corporation.

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. The Tampella company was in operation 1861-1991.