Boring details for Floriana’s tunnel.

A detailed record drawing of the digging of Floriana tunnel helps understand how it was engineered. The original drawing uses a colour code to track[…]

Ticket to ride

An example set of Malta Railway Tickets held as part of a personal collection donated to the UK National archives, Kew. They’re unusual as they[…]

Platform pump paradox

This curious contraption at the end of Museum railway station is a hand pump used to fill the tanks of the Malta Railway engines with[…]

A bridge too many

I’ve talked before about the clash between the line of the Malta Railway and the Wignacourt Aqueduct and how it was resolved by a syphon[…]

Revelations and restitution in Santa Venera

The historic photo above showing the nearly complete Malta Railway has long been stated as being the cutting west of Attard, but this identification now[…]

The upper stones of the Malta Railway embankment at Ta Braxia

No Richard III in this car park, but…

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[…]

Colour my world…

I’m on record as disliking colourised photos, mainly because so many turn out so badly. Ai is bad at recognising shapes and forms in black[…]

In time of trial

A syndicated press photo of Valletta railway station Jan 1942 when the railway tunnels offered precious shelter from the bombing raids inflicted upon the island.[…]

Who was the mysterious photographer?

I’ve just acquired a set of ten photos of the Malta Railway after closure – nothing special, they’ve all been published before and were commercially[…]

The railway during the Great War

A new image of Valletta Station in 1918 come from an unusual source. It was published in the London & North Western Railway in-house magazine.[…]