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.
Locomotive survivor?
It’s been recorded, photographed several times, but is it more than it looks? It’s a tall rivetted cylinder at the back of the engineering works[…]
Why Malta Railway engines all faced Mdina
There’s often discussion of why all the Malta Railway locomotives faced the same direction, towards Mdina. Even locomotive No.4, which faced the opposite direction for[…]
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