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[…]

The national archives of Malta hold a number of copies of a drawing of Hamrun station precinct. It’s a survey drawing showing the buildings then[…]

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

Years after the closure of the Malta Railway remnants littered the former railway yard at Hamrun. Here, surrounded by scrap, Engine No.1 hangs on sandwiching[…]

One wonders how the original Malta Railway company managed to operate with such basic facilities at its main depot. The engine shed wasn’t large enough[…]