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.

Towns served

Open

Under construction

  • (new parallel 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge line)
  • (capacity 50Mtpa)
  • (new line to be open access) [3][4]
  • Tagrin Point proposed high capacity port
  • Marampa - iron ore mine.
  • Makeni
  • Bumbuna
  • Tonkolili - proposed extension to iron ore deposit [5][6][7]
  • Kasafoni - proposed iron ore mine

Proposed

2013

Closed

Cotton Tree station, Freetown (1915)
Magburaka station

(government 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) line)

Possible

Timeline

  • September 2008 - dispute over mining leases hampers rehabilitation of Marampa railway.[10]

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.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.otal.com/images/OTAL%20Services/TransportReport/Trade-Watch%20-%20Issue%202%20-%20September%202010.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "sierra leone development corp, pepel island, BRCW". www.derbysulzers.com.
  3. ^ a b "Infrastructure". Archived from the original on 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  4. ^ a b "Railpage". Railpage.
  5. ^ a b Africa, Railways. "Railways Africa". Railways Africa.
  6. ^ a b "allAfrica.com: Sierra Leone: African Minerals to Boost Bunbuna Hydro (Page 1 of 1)". Archived from the original on 2008-10-24.
  7. ^ a b "Chairman's Statement". Archived from the original on 2008-12-21. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  8. ^ "SLeone, China sign $8 billion in infrastructure deals". AFP. March 25, 2015.
  9. ^ "National Iron Ore Company / National Iron Ore Company, Southern, Sierra Leone, Africa". travelingluck.com.
  10. ^ http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page39?oid=62079&sn=Detail[permanent dead link‍]
  11. ^ http://www.derbysulzers.com/pepelreport2005.pdf [bare URL PDF]