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’.

Unsung engineering heroes who worked while the nation rested

December 29, 2024

WHEN it comes to travelling by train over Christmas and the New Year there is a collective moan across the country as trains are cancelled, lines are closed and services are diverted. But there’s another side to this story, as some mighty engineering works are completed to modernise crumbling Victorian infrastructure. Around our way in Agar Grove, Camden Town, an army of engineers has mustered, deploying some of the tallest cranes and most massive girders I have ever seen. They […]

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