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’.

Forget the car! Our idyllic, organic, low-carbon holiday to the West Country

May 1, 2007

“Are there smoked salmon in the lake, Daddy?” Shhhh! This is my five-year old son giving away our secret ­– that we are just another bunch of townies on a trip to the countryside. But we’ve a special reason not to seem like greenhorns on this first day of our “green holiday”. This isn’t one of those “let’s buy some organic asparagus in M&S” gestures. We have decided to do the “full green” – staying on an organic farm in […]

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