I’ve just acquired a set of ten photos of the Malta Railway after closure – nothing special, they’ve all been published before and were commercially[…]

A new image of Valletta Station in 1918 come from an unusual source. It was published in the London & North Western Railway in-house magazine.[…]

We’re incredibly grateful to Michael Cassar, one of the authors of The Malta Railway, for his kind permission to host a pdf copy of his[…]

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[…]

This is a view I’ve seen before, but only ever as a printed postcard. Here is a copy of an actual photographic version of the[…]

When the Malta Railway was built through Attard it had to deal with the Knight’s era Wignacourt Aqueduct descending on a slight gradient through the[…]

Recently, a previously unpublished photograph went up for auction on Ebay. We were keeping our eyes on it to add to our collection. It was[…]

I’m not fond of historic photos being colourised, the standard algorithms often producing inauthentic and misleading results. However, I’ve found new filters on Photoshop that[…]

Close inspection of an early plan to tunnel the Malta Railway under Mdina, drawn in around 1894, reveals a spaghetti of crayon lines in red[…]

I’ve finally found a photo of Carmelo Rizzo, the last manager of the Malta Railway between 1924 and 1931. He had quite the career it[…]