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.

Colonel East’s departure

Colonel East had a rousing send-off on his departure, perhaps retirement, from Malta in April 1914. He was carried in procession from Mtarfa barracks to[…]

Spare wheel or abandoned breakage?

I’ve spotted sets of carriage wheels lying around at some of the stations on the Malta Railway, here at Notible, Attard, and Hamrun (above) respectively.[…]

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[…]