Michael Williams – Page 4 – 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’.

My fabulous trip on luxury steam train through Germany

June 1, 2025

JUST returned from a memorable steam trip through Germany on the inaugural journey of Belle Trains. The “Harz Mountain Belle” took us across the nation, behind a giant vintage “Class O1” steam locomotive. We travelled in luxury art-deco carriages, served delicious food, visiting Cologne, Nuremberg, Dresden, Leipzig and Wiesbaden. Our destination was the magical steam-operated Harz railway system in the mountains of the old GDR, one of tle last publicly operated steam networks in the world. Now writing an article […]