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.

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]
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[…]