Sierra Leone Mountain Railway

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Sierra Leone Mountain Railway
legal form
founding 1903
resolution 1929
Seat Freetown , Sierra LeoneSierra LeoneSierra Leone 
Branch traffic
Status: May 15, 2020

Historic Cotton Tree Railway Station in Freetown; now the National Museum of Sierra Leone
Congo Bridge on the Mountain Railway

Sierra Leone Mountain Railway (SLMR) was from 1903 to 1929, as part of the Sierra Leone Government Railway , an independent operator of an urban railway network in Freetown , the capital of Sierra Leone in West Africa .

The 5.5 mile long rail network (Mountain Railway) led from the Cotton Tree in the center of Freetown to Hill Station in the district of the same name . The route was primarily used by wealthy residents as a means of transport from their preferred residential areas to the city.

The railway line was closed in 1929 because motor vehicles had proven to be a faster and easier means of transport.

literature

  • Phillip Beale, Vic Mitchell: Sierra Leone Narrow Gauge . Middleton Press, Midhurst, West Sussex, UK 2004, ISBN 9781904474289 .
  • Anthony Coulls: Sierra Leone: Railway Adventure . Holne Publishing, Leeds, UK 2014, ISBN 9780956331779 .
  • D. Trever Rowe: The Sierra Leone Government Railway , in: Locomotives International , No. 41, December 1997-January 1998.
  • G. Thorne: Scrapbook of Narrow Gauge Drawings , 7mm Narrow Gauge Association, 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The Railways of Salone. Sierra Leone National Railway Museum. Retrieved June 8, 2017.