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.

The stuff of legends

Until now, there were no known photographs of the third locomotive to enter traffic on the Malta Railway. Manning Wardle-built No.3 arrived in 1883 and[…]

Hamrun hammer-forge

A while ago I posted a query about a chimney that appeared in the background of a photo of Hamrun, the structure projecting above the[…]