1898 in rail transport
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Template:Short description Template:Sidebar This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1898.
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Events
March
- March 16 – Original Finnish Railway Museum opens in Helsinki.
April
- April 1 – The Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Railway opens between Aberlady Junction and Gullane, Scotland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- April 20 – Electrification of the South Side Elevated Railway in Chicago is completed ending all steam locomotive operations on the route. Multiple-unit (M.U.) train control is also introduced by railroad engineer Frank J. Sprague.
May
- May – E. H. Harriman becomes chairman of the executive committee for the Union Pacific Railroad.
- May 11 – The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway in England opens.
- May 16 – Passenger service is inaugurated on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.
June
- June 12 – Regular revenue service begins on the Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor Railway in Michigan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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July
- July 3 – Rail transport in Sudan: Desert railway from Wadi Halfa completed to Atbara by British military engineers on 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge.
- July 11 – Opening of the London and South Western Railway’s Waterloo & City line, the second deep-level electrified "tube" railway in London.<ref>Template:Gillham-Electric</ref>Template:Page needed
- July 21 – First section of White Pass and Yukon Route opens out of Skagway, Alaska, first railroad in the territory.
- July 23 – Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 3,000th new steam locomotive.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- July 30 – The Société des Chemins de fer vicinaux du Mayumbe (CVM) is created to build and operate a network of Template:Track gauge gauge railways in the province of Lower Congo, in the Congo Free State, with a planned extension to the Republic of the Congo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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September
- September 2 – The Wellingborough rail accident in England kills 7 people.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October
- October 17 – The Wrawby Junction rail crash in England kills 9 people.
Unknown date
- Sunset magazine is founded as a promotional tool of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
- The Loup Creek & Deepwater railway is officially renamed Deepwater Railway
Births
Deaths
- March 6 – Hugh J. Jewett, president of the Erie Railroad 1874–1884 (b. 1817).
- October 12 – John M. Forbes, president of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (b. 1813).
- November 20 – Sir John Fowler, British civil engineer (b. 1817).
- December 15 – Calvin S. Brice, president of Lake Erie and Western Railroad, builder of Nickel Plate Road (b. 1845).<ref>Template:CongBio</ref>
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