However, funding is constrained, and diesel-hauled freight transport is a higher priority. Major accidents On 27 August 2006 more than 60 people were killed in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train south of Victoria Falls. On 3 June 2006 five fatalities occurred in the Ngungumbane rail crash. On 1 February 2003 40 people died in the Dete train crash. Major lines and stations Museum The Zimbabwe National Railways Museum is in Bulawayo; it has a selection of locomotives, railway carriages and other interesting things. One of the exhibits is a Rhodesia Railways class DE2 diesel locomotive. Well known employees (past and present) Former Vice President Joshua Nkomo worked there as a social worker in 1948. Sir Roy Welensky, the last Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, worked as an engineer for Rhodesia Railways before entering politics. Frank Edward Hough, Esq., O.B.E., was Chief Mechanical Engineer for Rhodesia Railways, from which he was appointed a C.B.E. in 1953. See also Transport in Zimbabwe History of Zimbabwe References Sources External links Official Website How to Travel Info About the Railway Museum illustrated account of the development of the railways of Rhodesia Steam Railway Photographs - Zimbabwe Railway companies of Zimbabwe 3 ft 6 in gauge railways in Zimbabwe