title: Railway stations in Sierra Leone
text: # 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.
  
  