1898 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1898.
Events
March
- March 16 â Original Finnish Railway Museum opens in Helsinki.
April
- April 1 â The Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Railway opens between Aberlady Junction and Gullane, Scotland.[1][2]
- April 20 â 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 â E. H. Harriman becomes chairman of the executive committee for the Union Pacific Railroad.
- May 11 â The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway in England opens.
- May 16 â Passenger service is inaugurated on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.
June
July
- July 3 â 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 â Opening of the London and South Western Railwayâs Waterloo & City line, the second deep-level electrified "tube" railway in London.[4][page needed]
- July 21 â First section of White Pass and Yukon Route opens out of Skagway, Alaska, first railroad in the territory.
- July 23 â Brooks Locomotive Works completes its 3,000th new steam locomotive.[5]
- July 30 â The Société des Chemins de fer vicinaux du Mayumbe (CVM) is created to build and operate a network of 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railways in the province of Lower Congo, in the Congo Free State, with a planned extension to the Republic of the Congo.[6]
September
- September 2 â The Wellingborough rail accident in England kills 7 people.[7]
October
- October 17 â 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
Deaths
- March 6 â Hugh J. Jewett, president of the Erie Railroad 1874â1884 (b. 1817).
- October 12 â John M. Forbes, president of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (b. 1813).
- November 20 â Sir John Fowler, British civil engineer (b. 1817).
- December 15 â Calvin S. Brice, president of Lake Erie and Western Railroad, builder of Nickel Plate Road (b. 1845).[8]