Michael Williams – Page 3 – 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’.

Poignant voyage to spot the last wild orangutans left on earth

July 14, 2025

JUST returned with our family from the trip of a lifetime through the jungles and mighty rivers of Borneo to spot some of the last wild orangutans left on the planet.Magical but poignant also, since these intelligent, shy creatures – our closest relatives in the natural world – are on the verge of extinction as global firms demolish the rainforest at pace in their pursuit of profits through logging and palm oil plantations.As a lifetime national newspaper journalist I […]