Pepel is a

coastal The coast, also known as the coastline or seashore, is defined as the area where land meets the ocean, or as a line that forms the boundary between the land and the coastline. The Earth has around of coastline. Coasts are important zones in ...

town in the

Port Loko District Port Loko District is a district in the North West Province of Sierra Leone. It is the most populous District in the North and the second most populous District in Sierra Leone, after the Western Area Urban District. As of the 2015 census, Port L ...

in the Northern Province of

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierr ...

Port

Pepel has a port in the Sierra Leone River used for shipping bulk iron ore via the mining company African Minerals.

Railway

Pepel is connected by a gauge 84 km long railway to an iron ore mine at Marampa. It is proposed to introduce a more efficient

balloon loop A balloon loop, turning loop, or reversing loop ( North American Terminology) allows a rail vehicle or train to reverse direction without having to shunt or stop. Balloon loops can be useful for passenger trains and unit freight trains. Bal ...

at the port.Map - scroll down to view balloon loop.
An extension of this line to a deeper port at

Tagrin Point Tagrin Point is the proposed location of a deep water port to replace the older and shallower port of Port Pepel in Sierra Leone. It would be connected to existing and new iron ore mined by an upgraded railway line converted to standard gauge. ...

is also proposed.

References

Populated places in Sierra Leone Western Area {{SierraLeone-geo-stub

Port

Railway

See also

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