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.
Malta Railway Poster Fantasies
The Malta Railway never produced much advertising material. Most printed matter associated with the line was in the form of timetables, tickets, paperwork, and the[…]
The curious cabin at Museum station
A postcard view of Mtarfa and the barracks (above) captures the construction of the new Malta Railway station before opening in 1900. The main building[…]
Platform pump paradox
This curious contraption at the end of Museum railway station is a hand pump used to fill the tanks of the Malta Railway engines with[…]
What price history?
Recently, a previously unpublished photograph went up for auction on Ebay.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[…]
“Never kill a Bishop”
I’d not noticed before, but this photo of the Malta Railway’s inauguration shows the marquees erected on Racecourse Road above Notabile station where refreshments were[…]
A beautiful fiction
The little bridge over Wied ta San Martin, at the edge of the hamlet of Ta’ San Gakbu, was a picturesque rural spot that caught[…]
A change of plan
In 1883 the Malta Railway company directors reported to their investors that the Government Supervision Board had required them to move their originally planned location[…]
Museum station sequence
Not enough to make a movie, but two photos of the Malta Railway brought together again from the same brief moment in time. A train[…]
Wagons for watering
Above is tight crop of a 1920s photo of Museum station looks along the station platform and embankment towards Mtarfa. In the middle distance an[…]
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