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.

A tale of two stations (or more)

Floriana station remains the most enigmatic and elusive feature of the Malta Railway. It was the second underground station on the line after Valletta, supposedly[…]

Crossing the wild lands

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[…]

Revelations and restitution in Santa Venera

The historic photo above showing the nearly complete Malta Railway has long been stated as being the cutting west of Attard, but this identification now[…]

The upper stones of the Malta Railway embankment at Ta Braxia

No Richard III in this car park, but…

I had believed every trace of the railway between Triq L-Indipendenza and Mile End had been obliterated; I was wrong. Walking the length of the[…]

Malta Railway interactive map

Someone asked if there was a map showing the railway on the modern street plan, so naturally I decided to spend a stupid number of[…]

From latrines to living rooms

This article was first posted on the Malta Railway Facebook Group in 2024 and has since been confirmed by site inspection. There’s this old image[…]

The indefatigable carriage

As interest in the Malta Railway developed during the 1970s, efforts were made to record as much of the infrastructure and survivals as possible. In[…]