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

Events

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 – 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 12 – Regular revenue service begins on the Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor Railway in Michigan.^[3]

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]
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]

Sunset magazine is founded as a promotional tool of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The Loup Creek & Deepwater railway is officially renamed Deepwater Railway

Births

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