Michael Williams – Page 30 – 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’.

At last some sense on HS2 as Euston link given green signal

October 8, 2024

AT LAST some sense in the HS2 debacle as Transport Secretary Louise Haigh appeared today to signal the go-ahead for the multi-billion pound line’s link to Euston in central London. Previously, under nonsensical plans by Rishi Sunak, it was to terminate in a god-forsaken corner of west London at Old Oak Common. This is good news not only for passengers at the capital’s worst London terminus, but for Euston area residents like me and my neighbours, who have found ourselves […]