Back in 2024, the surviving Malta Railway station building in Hamrun underwent restoration and received a refreshed new look. Strikingly, the colour was transformed from[…]

It’s pretty extraordinary that around 60% of the trees in Birkirkara’s station gardens survive from when they were first planted by the Malta railway over[…]

Since first publishing a new analysis of the evidence for the ‘lift bridge’ in the Floriana railway tunnel, new information has come to light. From a private[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

The Habel Bellu sgraffito of a Malta Railway engine, one of the original Manning Wardle engines no doubt, scanned in 3D and available to view[…]

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[…]