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’.

Huge tribute to train driver hero of murderous stabbing

November 2, 2025

MASSIVE tribute to LNER train driver for his quick thinking into pulling his express train into a wayside platform after learning last night there had been a murderous stabbing spree on his train from Doncaster to King’s Cross also. He did this within 8 minutes of the first 999 call. All credit also to the Network Rail signallers who worked smartly with him to divert the train.As a nation we often moan about train drivers, but this driver is in […]