Michael Williams – Railway & Travel writer

Michael Williams:
author & journalist

Michael is a journalist, academic and author – writing, blogging and broadcasting on railways and the media. He is also a travel writer, having covered the world for a variety of publications. Read more…

The Trains
Now Departed

Michael Williams’s most recent book The Trains Now Departed: Sixteen excursions into the lost delights of Britain’s railways is published by Arrow Books. Find out more about Michael’s other books, including ‘On the Slow Train’, ‘On the Slow Train Again’ and ‘Steaming to Victory’.

Great stage re-creation of life with Rupert Murdoch

April 18, 2026

IF YOU have any interest in the shifting sands of the media in shaping modern Britain, then I beg you to to see “In the Print” – a dramatisation of Rupert Murdoch’s battle with the print unions at Wapping. It is a gripping re-creation of the period. (I should know, I was there!) At the King’s Head Theatre in Islington, with the bonus of Brian Cox’s son Alan playing the part of the tycoon himself.