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Railway stations in Sierra Leone

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Railway stations in Sierra Leone

Railway stations in Sierra Leone include:

Contents

Maps

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.
  • African Mineral iron ore railway Map
  • Open

  • (private 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) line)
  • (upgraded to 20Mtpa)
  • (renewed line to be open access)
  • 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
  • Under construction

  • (new parallel 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) gauge line)
  • (capacity 50Mtpa)
  • (new line to be open access)
  • Tagrin Point proposed high capacity port
  • Marampa - iron ore mine.
  • Makeni
  • Bumbuna
  • Tonkolili - proposed extension to iron ore deposit
  • Kasafoni - proposed iron ore mine
  • 2013

  • Tonkolili - iron ore mine
  • Sulima southern port at the mouth of the Moa River.
  • Closed

    (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
  • Timeline

  • September 2008 - dispute over mining leases hampers rehabilitation of Marampa railway.
  • 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.

    References

    Railway stations in Sierra Leone Wikipedia


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