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		<title>An eye to protection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An update to the original blog post is appended at the end of this post. Concerning news reaches us from Santa Venera courtesy of Architect Edward Said. One of the more regularly overlooked fragments surviving from the Malta Railway is a section of cutting wall visible along the north side of Triq Kappillan Mifsud. It&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Painting Hamrun Red.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 the familiar off-white to a vivid red and green. The restoration was diligently undertaken by Bezzina &#38; Cole architect and engineers and with oversight from Government conservation officers. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Birkirkara&#8217;s overlooked green history</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s pretty extraordinary that around 60% of the trees in Birkirkara&#8217;s station gardens survive from when they were first planted by the Malta railway over a century ago. They were originally introduced along station platforms to offer shade for passengers waiting for trains, but later, the embellishment of the stations with elaborate garden planting, was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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>Reuse and restoration at Notabile</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 had suddenly begun clearing the area and no one seemed sure what the future held for it. Started in around 1900, the upper building grew in progressive phases around an [&#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>Locomotive survivor?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 at Hamrun. Most analysis of it has identified it as a vertical boiler used as power or hot water for the works, or a storage tank; however, this new theory [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New interpretation of Floriana&#8217;s hidden history</title>
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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>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>Habel Bellu sgraffito</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 and download. https://poly.cam/cap&#8230;/B559E29E-9E17-42A4-B0BE-C1068CD8A44E]]></description>
		
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