Bulawayo Railway Museum, Railway museum in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

The Bulawayo Railway Museum is a railway museum in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, housing locomotives, carriages, and technical equipment from several decades of rail operation in the region. Most of the exhibits are displayed outdoors on tracks, allowing visitors to see them at full scale and up close.

The museum was founded in 1972 to preserve objects dating back to 1897, including a personal railway coach from the colonial period. That early collection reflects the origins of the rail network that connected Zimbabwe to its neighboring countries.

The museum occupies the former mechanical workshop of Bulawayo station, where a wall of fame lists Chief Mechanical Engineers from the start of Rhodesia Railways until 2013. The reception is housed in Shamva Station, a typical Rhodesian Railways station building dismantled and moved to the site, complete with its ticketing office, notice boards, rain gauge and fire extinguishers.

The museum stands directly southeast of Bulawayo railway station, on the same tracks as the National Railways of Zimbabwe, which lets it display large vehicles such as Garratt locomotives. Much of the collection sits outdoors on open ground, where some carriages are weathering in the subtropical climate, so allow time to walk the site. The main hall, once the station's mechanical workshop, holds the most important exhibits.

Some of the steam locomotives on display were returned to active service when the country's railways did not have enough working trains to meet demand. This shows that these old machines were not just museum pieces but remained genuinely useful well into modern times.