'''September 1998''': A special event took place to mark the 20th anniversary of the arrival of Western Diesels D1013 Western Ranger and D1062 Western Courier twenty years earlier.
'''October 1998''': A Great Western 2+8 HST worked a Cheshire Railtours trip from Exeter at Bridgnorth on a filthy 31 October.<ref>[http://www.hatspics.co.uk/type_years_photos.php?type=SVR&year=1998 Images on Alan Thwaites' hatpics website] (Retrieved 28 September 2022)</ref>
'''November 1998''': Hunslet 0-6-0 No 686 The Lady Armaghdale celebrated her 100th birthday. The locomotive was briefly painted into her original black livery as Manchester Ship Canal No 32, before returning to Thomas duties.