Mixed passenger/goods train

Black and white photograph depicting a crowd of sellers by a mixed traffic train, May 1953. Note that there are two passenger carriages, in the middle of several covered vans and an open wagon into which baskets of fresh produce are being loaded from the platform. This photograph is part of the collection of the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum which was founded in 2004. The Museum is based in Cline Town, Freetown, Sierra Leone and tells the story of the construction, development and operation of the railways in Sierra Leone.