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.

Tunnel drawbridge update

Since first publishing a new analysis of the evidence for the ‘lift bridge’ in the Floriana railway tunnel, new information has come to light. From a private[…]

New feature dedicated to Hamrun’s railway works

Back in 2009, two transport enthusiasts, Mac Head and Keith Till were lucky enough to see inside the former Malta Railway workshops at Hamrun. We’ve[…]

Historic railway report now available for online study

When I was in Malta in October 2025 I was fortunate enough to be gifted a copy of an important report concerning the Malta Railway.[…]

Newly found photo rewrites locomotive’s history

Something of a curve-ball for the history of the Malta Railway has appeared recently on the internet; a new historical photo has emerged of engine[…]

Locomotive survivor?

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[…]

New interpretation of Floriana’s hidden history

Since we first published this article new evidence has come to light. It supports much of what we merely guessed at here, but with some[…]

Malta Railway II – Rapid Light Transport

At the old station in Birkirkara last week, the Government of Malta recently went live with a bold new strategy to transport: Malta in Motion.[…]

St Rocco Races reveals more

This photo was sold as a 1950s view of races at Notabile, but is in fact the St Rocco races held in August outside the[…]

Posed over Princess Melita Road

Yet another brilliant and informative historic photo of the Malta Railway has just turned up out of the blue. It shows the view looking north[…]

Hamrun survivals

There are a few bits of the Malta Railway still hidden about Hamrun. These photographs show two important fragments surviving from the railway embankment at[…]