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.
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Recently, a previously unpublished photograph went up for auction on Ebay.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[…]
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[…]
Colonel East’s departure
Colonel East had a rousing send-off on his departure, perhaps retirement, from Malta in April 1914. He was carried in procession from Mtarfa barracks to[…]
The biggest of bridges
Għeriexem bridge is arguably the most monumental structure on the Malta Railway. Helping bridge the valley between Mdina and Mtarfa it’s as much architectural as[…]
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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