Michael Williams – Page 301 – 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’.

Hurrah for Britain’s trainspotter army

March 25, 2009

Future historians trying to get to the heart of the early 1960s should inspect closely photographs of any major railway station in the land. Kings Cross, Euston, Crewe, York, Edinburgh, you name them. Here the platform ends were thronged by armies of adolescent boys. Adorned with enamel badges of their favourite locos, they munched on Marmite sandwiches and chewed on Juicy Fruits, while feverishly underlining numbers from their Ian Allan ABC guides. This was an age of innocence – “before […]