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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1908.
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Events
February events
- February 25 - The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad starts revenue service between Hoboken, New Jersey and 19th Street, Manhattan.1
March events
- March 25 - The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad extends passenger service from its existing Washington-Annapolis route to Baltimore, Maryland.2
- March 30 - Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway purchases the Columbia Railway and Navigation Company.3
April events
- April 20 - A rear-end collision in Melbourne, Australia, called the Sunshine train disaster, kills 44 and injures around 400.
May events
- May 17 - Trains operating through the St. Clair Tunnel under the St. Clair River between Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan, begin using electric locomotives instead of steam locomotives.4
June events
- June 23 The Denver & Interurban begins operations using some electrified lines of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf. The UPD&G and the D&I are both owned by the Colorado and Southern Railway.5
- June 30 Last day steam trains can operate south of the Harlem River in New York City.
July events
- July 1 - Public inauguration of Midland Railway Lancaster–Morecambe–Heysham electrification system (6.6 kV A.C. at 25 Hz), the first overhead wire scheme on a passenger railway in England.
- July 8 - Construction begins on the Belt Line Railway of Toronto in Hull, Ontario.6
- July 10 - Thamshavnbanen in Norway opened. This is the first electrified railway in the country.7
- July 14 - Shinpei Goto steps down as president of the South Manchuria Railway.
September events
- September 1 - Hejaz Railway opened from Damascus, Syria to Medina, Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula.8
November events
- November 1 - The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway introduces the Southern Belle passenger train between London and Brighton.910
- November - Following experiments, the Great Western Railway of England begins to introduce Automatic Train Control on its main lines.11
December events
- December 18 - Great Northern Railway (U.S.) completes construction of the line between Great Falls and Billings, Montana.12
- December 19 - Korekimi Nakamura begins his term as the second president of South Manchuria Railway.
Unknown date events
- The Soo Line acquires a majority interest in the Wisconsin Central Railway.
Births
Unknown date births
- John Francis Nash, vice president of operations for New York Central and president of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and Lehigh Valley Railroad (d. 2004).
Deaths
January deaths
- January 14 - Matthias N. Forney, American steam locomotive manufacturer (b. 1835).1314
June deaths
- June 3 - Robert Gillespie Reid, builder of many Canadian railway bridges as well as the Newfoundland Railway (d. 1842).
References
- ^ Cudahy, Brian J. (2002). Rails Under the Mighty Hudson. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-2189-X.
- ^ Washington D.C. Chapter National Railway Historical Society. "Washington, D.C. Railroad History". Retrieved on 2006-03-24.
- ^ Rivanna Chapter National Railway Historical Society. "This month in railroad history: March". Retrieved on 29 March, 2006.
- ^ "Significant dates in Canadian railway history". Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (2006-03-17). Retrieved on 2006-05-17.
- ^ Jones, William C.; Holley, Noel T. (1986). The Kite Route: story of the Denver & Interurban Railroad. Boulder, Co.: Pruett. ISBN 0871087219.
- ^ "Significant dates in Ottawa/Hull street and light railway history". Retrieved on 2005-07-07.
- ^ Norsk Jernbaneklubb (1994). Banedata '94 (in Norwegian). ISBN 8290286155.
- ^ Tourret, R. (1989). Hedjaz Railway. Abingdon: Tourret Publishing. ISBN 0-905878-05-1.
- ^ Hill, Keith (February 2005). "Brighton's Belle Époque". BackTrack 19 (2): p 70–79.
- ^ Winkworth, D. W. (1988). Southern Titled Trains. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-9179-8.
- ^ MacDermot, E. T. (1964). History of the Great Western Railway, vol. II, 1863-1921. London: Ian Allan.
- ^ Railroads of Montana - Lewiston newspaper index - Great Northern Railway. Retrieved on 2005-12-18.
- ^ "Brief biographies of mechanical engineers". Retrieved on 2004-02-09.
- ^ 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.
