The recent acquisition of a large batch of old photos has furnished us with some interesting new insights into the Malta railway after closure in[…]

We’re grateful to the Malta Department of Information Archives for having searched their collections for Malta Railway images. Amongst these, shown above, was a new[…]

I finally found a good quality version of this old postcard of Birkirkara station on the Malta Railway. I’ve had one version of it for[…]

An update to the original blog post is appended at the end of this post. Concerning news reaches us from Santa Venera courtesy of Architect[…]

Rifling again through the drawings collections of National Archives of Malta, I returned to a set of plans for the Malta Electric Railway. My attention[…]

We’re hugely grateful to Howard Sprenger of Kestrel Railway Books for sending us a previously unknown photo of the Malta Railway (above). It’s a lovely[…]

Some sources suggest that the Malta railway only ever raised its ticket prices once, in 1900. Whilst it’s true that that the halfpenny increase in[…]

Some unashamed use of Ai here. The intention behind this gallery was to give some life to some historic monochrome views, and to bring some[…]

The Malta Railway never produced much advertising material. Most printed matter associated with the line was in the form of timetables, tickets, paperwork, and the[…]

A postcard view of Mtarfa and the barracks (above) captures the construction of the new Malta Railway station before opening in 1900. The main building[…]