Michael Williams – Page 308 – 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’.

On board for thrills as London-Brussels Eurostar breaks record

May 1, 2007

Railway historians will have to rewrite the record books after a train from Brussels to St Pancras International yesterday achieved the fastest rail journey ever between a European capital and London, knocking more than 30 minutes off the current timing. The 20 coach train – the first from Brussels to run throughout on the new £5.3bn high speed line through Kent and east London, covered the 232 miles between the two cities in just 1 hour, 43 minutes, 53 seconds. […]