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 joys of the railway ticket office

September 3, 2023

“MAKE sure you mention me in your article,” says the ticket lady at Enfield Chase, a modest station on the suburban line from London’s Moorgate to Stevenage. “I’m Grace. ‘Amazing Grace’, they call me. And she is indeed part of an amazing army of super-knowledgable people who issue tickets on our railways. Want the cheapest ticket and the time of the train from Wick to Whitby on a Bank Holiday morning? Well folk like Grace will be able to help […]

MICHAEL'S BOOKS