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.
Unravelling spaghetti
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[…]
6 hours in 70 seconds: Malta Railway trains in 1908
After A LOT of wrangling with various apps, I’ve animated the first six hours of operation of the railway. This starts at 4:20 in the[…]
Malta Railway interactive map
Someone asked if there was a map showing the railway on the modern street plan, so naturally I decided to spend a stupid number of[…]
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