Years after the closure of the Malta Railway remnants littered the former railway yard at Hamrun. Here, surrounded by scrap, Engine No.1 hangs on sandwiching[…]

This is a view I’ve seen before, but only ever as a printed postcard. Here is a copy of an actual photographic version of the[…]

When the Malta Railway was built through Attard it had to deal with the Knight’s era Wignacourt Aqueduct descending on a slight gradient through the[…]

Recently, a previously unpublished photograph went up for auction on Ebay. We were keeping our eyes on it to add to our collection. It was[…]

I’m not fond of historic photos being colourised, the standard algorithms often producing inauthentic and misleading results. However, I’ve found new filters on Photoshop that[…]

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[…]

Close inspection of an early plan to tunnel the Malta Railway under Mdina, drawn in around 1894, reveals a spaghetti of crayon lines in red[…]

I’ve finally found a photo of Carmelo Rizzo, the last manager of the Malta Railway between 1924 and 1931. He had quite the career it[…]

We’ve been gradually adding more and more to this website since December last year. We’re gearing-up to a full launch on the 28th Feb, the[…]

I’d not noticed before, but this photo of the Malta Railway’s inauguration shows the marquees erected on Racecourse Road above Notabile station where refreshments were[…]