Malta Railway Blog
Here you’ll find all the latest news and discoveries. There’s plenty to see, including many research updates covering investigations that have helped inform the main pages on this site, and odd stories that we’ve not been able to fit in elsewhere. Have fun exploring.
An early view of Valletta railway station
Valletta station in 1883. This photo is likely to have been taken before the official opening of the Malta Railway, in late February that year.[…]
The biggest of bridges
Għeriexem bridge is arguably the most monumental structure on the Malta Railway. Helping bridge the valley between Mdina and Mtarfa it’s as much architectural as[…]
Valletta station in 1883.
This photos is likely to have been taken before the official opening in late February that year. It’s not the first official train to run[…]
Manning Wardles: a spotters guide
This post was first published on the Malta Railway Facebook Page in October 2024. Subsequently, an image of No. 3 has been identified. The Malta[…]
Signalling the railway
Timmy Zammit and I have been chatting about the signals on the Malta Railway. There were supposed to be two, one each on Harmrun and[…]
A Manning Wardle in the final years
A new view to me. Locomotive No.1, probably in April 1927 when photographs were taken for publication in the Locomotive Magazine later that year. The[…]
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