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.[…]

This photo was sold as a 1950s view of races at Notabile, but is in fact the St Rocco races held in August outside the[…]

This is an undated but important view looking up Racecourse Road towards Saqqija Hill. A karozzin waits for fares while several others are already half[…]

Yet another brilliant and informative historic photo of the Malta Railway has just turned up out of the blue. It shows the view looking north[…]

This 1975 photo shows the Malta Railway crossing out of the Floriana Lines, albeit long after the trains last ran. The glacis was backfilled and[…]

We’ve recently been sent an amazing photo, one new to the history of the Malta Railway. We’re indebted to Robert Galea-Naudi for his permission to[…]

There are a few bits of the Malta Railway still hidden about Hamrun. These photographs show two important fragments surviving from the railway embankment at[…]