Railway stations in Sierra Leone

Railway stations in Sierra Leone include:

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 line)
 * (upgraded to 20Mtpa) (Mtpa = Million Tonnes Per Annum?)
 * (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 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 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.