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’.

The British Love Affair with the Railways – my presentation for the National Archives

January 23, 2026

“WHY THE BRITISH LOVE THE RAILWAYS” This is my presentation, commissioned by the National Archives, and broadcast on JANUARY 16 2026 THE HORDES marching from the station along Derby’s Midland Road on this summer day in 2025 are seemingly endless. Here are folk of all varieties and complexions – men and women, young and old. There are mums and dads with toddlers, the elderly with sticks, the infirm in wheelchairs and babies in buggies. As well as eager-faced blokes […]