Railway stations in Sierra Leone
# 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

## Towns served

### Open

* (private 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) 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 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 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

### Proposed

**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.

