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 way up the hill, overtaking a small crowd of people, probably passengers recently having disembarked from a train from Valletta.

On the kerbside, with three louvered windows, is Notabile’s station latrine. To its right in a short section of wall, a doorway was the only access to ramp that led down to the platform. Railings continue the line of the station boundary along the road.

Fascinatingly, some of these structures still appear to survive. A house has now been built on the site, but it retains some distinctive features that can be picked out in the earlier photo.

The railings still attach to a stone wall, one with those distinctive and odd pointy coping stones. The opening in the wall has been enlarged, it seems, to create a garage entrance. Although the latrine wall has been cut-back, the projecting cornice around the top looks to survive as part of the present house.