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 train now arriving
We’re hugely grateful to Howard Sprenger of Kestrel Railway Books for sending us a previously unknown photo of the Malta Railway (above). It’s a lovely[…]
Revelations and restitution in Santa Venera
The historic photo above showing the nearly complete Malta Railway has long been stated as being the cutting west of Attard, but this identification now[…]
Colour my world…
I’m on record as disliking colourised photos, mainly because so many turn out so badly. Ai is bad at recognising shapes and forms in black[…]
Brining back a little colour
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[…]
The Railway Magazine report from 1912
These precious photos of the Malta Railway come from an historical copy of the British journal The Railway Magazine. Published 1912, the March edition included[…]
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