Back in October my visit to the former upper station building at Notabile station concerned me. Having been derelict and in decline for years, work[…]

Back in 2009, two transport enthusiasts, Mac Head and Keith Till were lucky enough to see inside the former Malta Railway workshops at Hamrun. We’ve[…]

The national archives of Malta hold a number of copies of a drawing of Hamrun station precinct. It’s a survey drawing showing the buildings then[…]

When I was in Malta in October 2025 I was fortunate enough to be gifted a copy of an important report concerning the Malta Railway.[…]

This is a well known photo of the Malta Railway engineering works, taken in 1912 as part of a series of promotional photographs intended for[…]

Something of a curve-ball for the history of the Malta Railway has appeared recently on the internet; a new historical photo has emerged of engine[…]

It’s been recorded, photographed several times, but is it more than it looks? It’s a tall rivetted cylinder at the back of the engineering works[…]

There’s often discussion of why all the Malta Railway locomotives faced the same direction, towards Mdina. Even locomotive No.4, which faced the opposite direction for[…]

I’ve been ruminating for a long time on the evidence we saw in Floriana tunnel outside the guard house. This is the site indicated on[…]

At the old station in Birkirkara last week, the Government of Malta recently went live with a bold new strategy to transport: Malta in Motion.[…]