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.

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[…]

Photo of Birkirkara railway station in Malta with a train standing at the platform heading towards Valletta.

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[…]