The recent acquisition of a large batch of old photos has furnished us with some interesting new insights into the Malta railway after closure in[…]

We’re grateful to the Malta Department of Information Archives for having searched their collections for Malta Railway images. Amongst these, shown above, was a new[…]

I finally found a good quality version of this old postcard of Birkirkara station on the Malta Railway. I’ve had one version of it for[…]

Rifling again through the drawings collections of National Archives of Malta, I returned to a set of plans for the Malta Electric Railway. My attention[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Back in 2024, the surviving Malta Railway station building in Hamrun underwent restoration and received a refreshed new look. Strikingly, the colour was transformed from[…]

It’s pretty extraordinary that around 60% of the trees in Birkirkara’s station gardens survive from when they were first planted by the Malta railway over[…]

Since first publishing a new analysis of the evidence for the ‘lift bridge’ in the Floriana railway tunnel, new information has come to light. From a private[…]

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[…]