Pepel

For the village in Albania, see Pepel, Albania.

Pepel
Pepel Location in Sierra Leone
Coordinates: 8°35′N13°04′W / 8.583°N 13.067°W / 8.583; -13.067
Country	Sierra Leone
province	North West Province
District	Port Loko District
Government
• Type	Democracy
• Regent	Alfred Eliazah Appertey
Elevation	3.3 ft (1 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (GMT)

Pepel is a coastal town in the Port Loko District in the North West Province of Sierra Leone.

Port

Pepel has a port in the Sierra Leone River used for shipping bulk iron ore via the mining company African Minerals. ^[1]

Railway

Pepel is connected by a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge 84 km long railway to an iron ore mine at Marampa.

It is proposed to introduce a more efficient balloon loop at the port. ^[2]

An extension of this line to a deeper port at Tagrin Point is also proposed.

See also

• Railway stations in Sierra Leone
• Transport in Sierra Leone

References

1. "Maps | African MINERALS". Archived from the original on 2014-03-28. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
2. Map - scroll down to view balloon loop. Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine

08°34′54″N13°03′46″W / 8.58167°N 13.06278°W / 8.58167; -13.06278