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’.

Our Bedlington Terrier triumphs in race to birthplace of the railways

March 31, 2026

Great day yesterday taking our Bedlington Terrier Alfie back to his homeland in Northumberland to join a doggy line-up to celebrate the opening of the new Bedlington station in Northumberland. Alfie was Number 5 in the race for the first 25 dogs to get there for the prize, thanks to the high-speed LNER Azuma trains. We blearily took the red-eye from King’s Cross. Credit to Alfie who was brighter than me in the early morning! Railways often get a bad […]