1898 in rail transport

This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1898.

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. ^{[1] [2]}
• 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. ^[3]

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. ^{[4] [ 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. ^[5]
• July 30 – 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 – The Wellingborough rail accident in England kills 7 people. ^[7]

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

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). ^[8]

References

• "Erie Railroad presidents". Archived from the original on March 18, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2005.
• "Railroad History Timeline – 1898". Archived from the original on December 20, 2004. Retrieved June 10, 2005.
• "Timeline of Old Plank Road Trail history and development". Archived from the original on February 14, 2005. Retrieved March 1, 2005.
• White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's Most Noteworthy Railroaders". Railroad History . 154: 9–15. ISSN   0090-7847. JSTOR   43523785. OCLC   1785797.
• White, John H. Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830–1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN   0-486-23818-0.

1. "(untitled)". Edinburgh Evening News. 1 April 1898.
2. Thomas, John (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Vol. 6, Scotland, the Lowlands and the Borders. revised by J.S. Paterson (revised ed.). Newton Abbot: David and Charles. ISBN   0-946537-12-7.
3. "Railroad History Time Line 1989". Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum. Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
4. Gillham, John C. (1988). The Age of the Electric Train: Electric Trains in Britain since 1883. London: Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN   0-7110-1392-6.
5. "Supply Trade Notes". The Railway Age. XXXII (16). Chicago, IL: 446. October 18, 1901. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
6. "Chemin de fer de Boma à Tshela". KANGU – MAYUMBE – BAS-CONGO (in French). February 23, 2009. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
7. Fowler, Simon (18 September 2013). Railway Disasters. Wharncliffe. p. 77. ISBN   978-1-4738-2985-5.
8. United States Congress. "Brice, Calvin Stewart (id: B000818)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved October 30, 2008.