1898 in rail transport

none 1897 1898 1899 1890 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.Edinburgh Evening News 1 April 1898 (untitled)John Thomas revised revised by J.S. Paterson A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain 6, Scotland, the Lowlands and the Borders David and Charles Newton Abbot 1984 0-946537-12-7 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.http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1890s/TimeLine1898.htm Railroad History Time Line 1989 Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum 2013-02-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20120716180145/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1890s/TimeLine1898.htm 2012-07-16 dead 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.July 2025 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.The Railway Age October 18, 1901 Supply Trade Notes XXXII 16 Chicago, IL 446 https://books.google.com/books?id=EopMAAAAYAAJ February 22, 2011 July 30 – The Société des Chemins de fer vicinaux du Mayumbe (CVM) is created to build and operate a network of 2ft gauge railways in the province of Lower Congo, in the Congo Free State, with a planned extension to the Republic of the Congo.http://kangu.skynetblogs.be/archive/2009/02/23/chemin-de-fer-boma-tshela.html Chemin de fer de Boma à Tshela fr KANGU – MAYUMBE – BAS-CONGO February 23, 2009 November 10, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065153/http://kangu.skynetblogs.be/archive/2009/02/23/chemin-de-fer-boma-tshela.html March 4, 2016 dead September September 2 – The Wellingborough rail accident in England kills 7 people.Fowler Simon Railway Disasters 18 September 2013 Wharncliffe 978-1-4738-2985-5 77 https://books.google.com/books?id=6C4RBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT77 en 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).B000818 Brice, Calvin Stewart October 30, 2008 1 References http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html Erie Railroad presidents March 15, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20050318171642/http://erierr.railfan.net/eriepres.html March 18, 2005 http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1890s/TimeLine1898.htm Railroad History Timeline – 1898 June 10, 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20041220113822/http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Timeline/1890s/TimeLine1898.htm December 20, 2004 dead http://oprt.org/history/timeline.html Timeline of Old Plank Road Trail history and development March 1, 2005 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20050214161136/http://oprt.org/history/timeline.html February 14, 2005