Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos, Railway museum in Puebla, Mexico

The National Mexican Railway Museum occupies Mexico's oldest preserved train station building and displays locomotives, carriages, and rail vehicles from different periods. The collection traces the technical evolution of railway transportation and preserves equipment that served for many decades.

The building opened in 1869 under President Benito Juárez and operated as an active train station until 1974. Following its conversion, it opened to the public as a museum in 1988 and has preserved the nation's railway heritage since then.

The place reflects how railways shaped Mexico's growth by connecting distant regions and enabling trade across the country. Visitors can observe the role these networks played in bringing people and goods together throughout the nation's development.

The museum occupies the old Ferrocarril Mexicano station in Puebla's historic centre, where the main passenger building, workshops and rail yards once stood. Visitors move between exhibition halls and outdoor areas holding steam locomotives and carriages, so allow time to walk the grounds. The former Mexicano del Sur station stood next door but burned in 1920 and no longer serves passengers.

The museum occupies the former Ferrocarril Mexicano station, inaugurated by Benito Juárez on 16 September 1869. The adjacent Ferrocarril Mexicano del Sur station, built in English style with limestone and brick ornaments, was burned by revolutionary forces in 1920 and later abandoned.