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[…]

The photographer in the above image here must be stood almost outside the station building at Floriana looking back at the Wignacourt water tower, The[…]

Two photographers were out on the 28th February 1883 to record the inauguration of the Malta Railway. The sequence of photographs they took of the[…]

Another composite panorama of the Malta Railway, stitched together from two photos taken on the same occasion and published in The Railway Magazine in 1912.[…]

In 1883 the Malta Railway company directors reported to their investors that the Government Supervision Board had required them to move their originally planned location[…]

A good quality photo of Floriana from the collections of the V&A museum reveals the chain of ventilation shafts over the Malta Railway tunnel. They[…]

Floriana, the second underground station on the Malta railway, lies directly below the rectangular opening in front of the Methodist church in this 1930 photo.[…]

One wonders how the original Malta Railway company managed to operate with such basic facilities at its main depot. The engine shed wasn’t large enough[…]

Colonel East had a rousing send-off on his departure, perhaps retirement, from Malta in April 1914. He was carried in procession from Mtarfa barracks to[…]

This is a lovely insight into the early days of the Malta Railway from the Globe newspaper in England. Although written in March 1883, it[…]