1918 in rail transport

Events

January events

February events

March events

  • March 19 – The United States Congress adopts Standard or "Railroad" time, in use since 1884, as the national standard.
  • March 21 – The Railroad Control Act becomes law in the United States, guaranteeing the return to private ownership and administration of America's railroads from the USRA at the end of World War I.
  • March 26 – The Council of the People's Commissars in Russia issues a decree "for the centralization of control, the protection of railroads and increase in their capacity."

June events

July events

August events

September events

October events

November events

Signatories to the Armistice with Germany (Compiègne), ending World War I, pose outside Marshal Foch's railway carriage.

December events

Unknown date events

Deaths

April deaths

Unknown date deaths

References

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