Railways in

Burundi

The port of Bujumbura.
Rail mounted cranes have replaced the former narrow gauge railway.

In 1947, a 600mm gauge freight railway began operating within the port of Usumbura (present day Bujumbura), serving shipping on Lake Tanganyika. The railway had ceased operations by 1982.

In 2022 a memorandum of understanding was signed for the construction of a 282km standard gauge railway from Gitega, the capital of Burundi, to Uvinza in Tanzania, where it would connect with a planned new line of Tanzanian Railways Corporation.

Also in 2023, a feasibility study was initiated for a new standard gauge line from Gitega to Kindu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.