Notable new view of Notabile

We’ve recently been sent an amazing photo, one new to the history of the Malta Railway. We’re indebted to Robert Galea-Naudi for his permission to[…]

A tale of two stations (or more)

Floriana station remains the most enigmatic and elusive feature of the Malta Railway. It was the second underground station on the line after Valletta, supposedly[…]

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[…]

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[…]

In time of trial

A syndicated press photo of Valletta railway station Jan 1942 when the railway tunnels offered precious shelter from the bombing raids inflicted upon the island.[…]

The railway during the Great War

A new image of Valletta Station in 1918 come from an unusual source. It was published in the London & North Western Railway in-house magazine.[…]

Staff on parade

This is a view I’ve seen before, but only ever as a printed postcard. Here is a copy of an actual photographic version of the[…]

An enhanced version of the recently sold postcard of Museum station

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Recently, a previously unpublished photograph went up for auction on Ebay.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[…]

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[…]

“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[…]