Picked up this postcard of Museum station, not for the picture but for what was written on the back. Sadly it’s undated and nothing to say who sender or recipient was, but it’s a nice contemporary insight

“Here we have the railway, the engines of which are made by Hawthorn Leslie of Newcastle in England. The cars of this railway are awful, being badly sprung and very poorly upholstered; in fact it is the primitive railway of George Stephenson in England, At the rear are the walls of an old French (!) fort of which the place is full”

Whoever the writer was they seem only to have come into contact with Engine No.4, built by Black Hawthorn & Co of Gateshead, confusing them with R W Hawthorn Leslie & Co. They also seem to be confused about the French building the walls of Mdina!