I had believed every trace of the railway between Triq L-Indipendenza and Mile End had been obliterated; I was wrong. Walking the length of the railway with Timmy Zammit we tried to stick as closely to the original alignment as possible. This involved crossing through the middle of a car park at Ta Braxia.

I spotted a line of stones in the ground, then another parallel to it, and realised they were continuous over some distance between the cars and trees. They all shared the same angled profile and matched the alignment of the railway, I believe these are the topmost edges of the railway embankment that passed through the area, though I’ve not seen these recorded before.

Where the car park meets Ta Braxia road at its western end there’s a a raised section of car park ending in something that looks like an abutment. Whilst all the masonry is modern and without the characteristic sloping battered walls of the railway’s embankments seen elsewhere in the car park; is this also the remains of a railway structure?