ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a report on the Sierra Leone Government Railway. The Sierra Leone Railway handles very little more traffic and is very little bigger than the ordinary traffic district; there is therefore all the more reason for not splitting up the control. At the same time, owing to the Railway managing the telegraph system of the country, it has adequate telegraph facilities, and in its present yard reports has the nucleus of an excellent system which would entail very little, if any, more telegraphing than the present one. In the case of the Sierra Leone Railway the maximum haul is only 228 miles; against this the average haul is 133 miles, shewing that the bulk of the traffic has a very long haul, considering the shortness of the line. In common with other Colonial Railways, the Sierra Leone Railway makes no yearly provision / towards depreciation.
