AT A GLANCE
Why go?
The Railway Museum in Livingstone, Zambia is an open-air heritage site where century-old steam locomotives and vintage railway carriages sit on display for visitors to explore, and where a small wooden building tucked among the trains tells a remarkable story: the history of Zambia's Jewish community. Located just seven miles from Victoria Falls, it offers an unexpectedly rich double visit—industrial railway heritage and the chronicle of a tiny immigrant population whose commercial, political, and cultural influence far outlasted their numbers.↗↗
A Railway Heritage on the Line of Rail
Railways were the lifeline of landlocked Zambia—known during colonial times as Northern Rhodesia—and the Livingstone museum preserves that legacy with a collection of outdoor locomotives and vintage coaches. Many of the engines on display once hauled lumber from sawmills, and visitors can climb aboard some carriages, including a first-class coach that evokes the romance of early rail travel in southern Africa. The museum is dedicated to telling the story of how the Line of Rail shaped the country's development, connecting remote towns and enabling commerce across a vast territory.↗
