Malta Railway Blog
Here you’ll find all the latest news and discoveries. There’s plenty to see, including many research updates covering investigations that have helped inform the main pages on this site, and odd stories that we’ve not been able to fit in elsewhere. Have fun exploring.
Floriana station vents
The photographer in the above image here must be stood almost outside the station building at Floriana looking back at the Wignacourt water tower, The[…]
Papped on opening day
Two photographers were out on the 28th February 1883 to record the inauguration of the Malta Railway. The sequence of photographs they took of the[…]
A stitch in time
Another composite panorama of the Malta Railway, stitched together from two photos taken on the same occasion and published in The Railway Magazine in 1912.[…]
A change of plan
In 1883 the Malta Railway company directors reported to their investors that the Government Supervision Board had required them to move their originally planned location[…]
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