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[…]

There’s often discussion of why all the Malta Railway locomotives faced the same direction, towards Mdina. Even locomotive No.4, which faced the opposite direction for[…]

This is an undated but important view looking up Racecourse Road towards Saqqija Hill. A karozzin waits for fares while several others are already half[…]

Picked up this postcard of Museum station, not for the picture but for what was written on the back. Sadly it’s undated and nothing to[…]

We’ve been gradually adding more and more to this website since December last year. We’re gearing-up to a full launch on the 28th Feb, the[…]

The little bridge over Wied ta San Martin, at the edge of the hamlet of Ta’ San Gakbu, was a picturesque rural spot that caught[…]

In the early 20th Century collecting illustrated cigarette cards became a popular hobby. The cards were slipped into every packet of cigarettes to stiffen them,[…]

Floriana’s epic tunnel The tunnel beneath Floriana was a challenging engineering feat. This diagram is based on an 1880 drawing in the Archives of Malta[…]