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		<title>Tunnel drawbridge update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since first publishing a&#160;new analysis&#160;of the evidence for the ‘lift bridge’ in the Floriana railway tunnel, new information has come to light. From a private collection, newly discovered drawings provide more insight into the proposed ‘lift bridge, a feature required by the British Military authorities to protect Valletta from potential attack through the tunnel. &#160;&#160;&#160; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New feature dedicated to Hamrun&#8217;s railway works</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve been incredibly fortunate to be offered the use of their record of this little-seen building on this website. Now with new diagrams, historic photos, and a new interpretation of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Newly found photo rewrites locomotive&#8217;s history</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 No.4 at Museum station in around 1900 (shown above in a colourised form). Close scrutiny of the details suggest it’s not Ai, but challenges all previously understood history of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New interpretation of Floriana&#8217;s hidden history</title>
		<link>https://maltarailway.net/tunnel-defences-unravelled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 19:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since we first published this article new evidence has come to light. It supports much of what we merely guessed at here, but with some key changes. For the update head here. I&#8217;ve been ruminating for a long time on the evidence we saw in Floriana tunnel outside the guard house. This is the site [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Malta Railway II &#8211; Rapid Light Transport</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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. It’s an ambitious multi-modal approach to satisfying the needs of 21st century Malta, focussing on connectivity between improved bus, car, bicycle, and ferry services. Naturally, most of the public interest [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>St Rocco Races reveals more</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 walls of Floriana for centuries. It&#8217;s Malta Railway interest lies in the inclusion of the Princess Melita Road railway bridge framing the view. Taken near Ta Braxia (today&#8217;s Triq L-indipendenza), [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Posed over Princess Melita Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 down Princess Melita Road, now Triq L&#8217; Indipendenza, in the direction of Pieta. The focus of the image is the short train hauled by locomotive No.2 posed on the bridge, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>At the fringes of the fortifications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 repaired after closure and the way blocked-up between the two abutment features behind the steps. I believe the steps were a designed pedestrian crossing of the railway line, but what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Crossing the wild lands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the Malta Railway entered the rugged rural landscape uphill from San Salvatore its character changed. It became relentlessly steep, picking its way field-by field towards Notabile. The route had to negotiate other physical challenges like this sudden deep gully, just beyond the Mdina Road and 5.5 miles out from Valletta. Although hidden today by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Boring details.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A detailed record drawing of the digging of Floriana tunnel helps understand how it was engineered. The original drawing uses a colour code to track the progress of digging every fortnight. It also includes the locations for three types of excavation: from shafts dug directly down, from &#8216;headings&#8217; that were cut horizontally, and cut-and-cover. Cut [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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