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.
Coupled in decay
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[…]
The stuff of legends
Until now, there were no known photographs of the third locomotive to enter traffic on the Malta Railway. Manning Wardle-built No.3 arrived in 1883 and[…]
An early view of Valletta railway station
Valletta station in 1883. This photo is likely to have been taken before the official opening of the Malta Railway, in late February that year.[…]
Valletta station in 1883.
This photos is likely to have been taken before the official opening in late February that year. It’s not the first official train to run[…]
Manning Wardles: a spotters guide
This post was first published on the Malta Railway Facebook Page in October 2024. Subsequently, an image of No. 3 has been identified. The Malta[…]
Wartime survivor at Hamrun
Another new photo from my friend at the Malta Study Circle. This is staff and boys of the Technical School in Hamrun posed on the[…]
A Manning Wardle in the final years
A new view to me. Locomotive No.1, probably in April 1927 when photographs were taken for publication in the Locomotive Magazine later that year. The[…]
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