Michael Williams – Page 23 – 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’.

Will nationalisation take the strain from the train?

December 4, 2024

AN HISTORIC moment today as the government announces the first train companies to be taken back into public ownership under its plans to re-nationalise our ailing rail network. But will operation by civil servants rather than private companies make any difference? Not if the performance of the Northern Rail – already state-run s anything to go by. Its record of cancellations and lateness is dire, and one of the worst in the country. However, I try to be optimistic. Chatting […]