Railway stations in Sierra Leone

Railway stations in Sierra Leone include:

Maps

Railway network of Sierra Leone
Black, open & dotted extension proposed.
Red ; closed 1974

The MSN and FallingRain and UNHCR maps still show the railway lines closed in 1974.

UN Map of Sierra Leone - no railways shown at all.
UNHCR Atlas map
Map on page 24.^[1]
African Mineral iron ore railway Map

Towns served

Open

(private 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) line) ^[2]
(upgraded to 20Mtpa)
(renewed line to be open access) ^[3]^[4]
Port Pepel - low capacity port
Madina
Lungi Lol
Makoato
- Bankasoka River bridge
Port Loko
Lunsar - terminus at mine

Marampa - iron ore mine.
Makeni
Bumbuna
Tonkolili - proposed extension to iron ore deposit ^[5]^[6]^[7]

Under construction

(new parallel 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) gauge line)
(capacity 50Mtpa)
(new line to be open access) ^[8]^[9]

Tagrin Point proposed high capacity port
Marampa - iron ore mine.
Makeni
Bumbuna
Tonkolili - proposed extension to iron ore deposit ^[10]^[11]^[12]
Kasafoni - proposed iron ore mine

Proposed

2013

Tonkolili - iron ore mine
Sulima southern port at the mouth of the Moa River.^[13]

Closed

Cotton Tree Railway Station, Freetown

(government 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) line)

Freetown in 1896.
Wellington (7 miles) by March 1897.

Waterloo April 1898
Songo (32 miles/51.5 km) 1899
Bradford - way station
Rotifunk (56 miles/90.1 km) 1900
Bauya - junction
Moyamba
Mano
Bo (103 miles/165.8 km) 1903
Gerihun
Blama
Baiima (145m) (220 miles/354 km) 1905
Pendembu (227.5 miles/366 km) 1907
Kenema
Daru - terminus

Bauya - junction
- Magburaka - branch
- Makeni - branch terminus

Possible

Bagla Hills - iron ore ^[14]

Timeline

September 2008 - dispute over mining leases hampers rehabilitation of Marampa railway.^[15]

Theft

While the Port Pepel line is non-operational, much theft of the rail and sleepers is taking place. The only advantage of this is to make conversion to standard gauge more easy.^[16]

References

Railway stations in Africa

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States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

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