Michael Williams – Page 6 – 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’.

Last call for Britain’s longest train journey

April 17, 2025

BOOK your tickets now for Britain’s longest train journey, which comes to an end on May 16. Cross Country trains is axing the Aberdeen to Penzance through service, a mighty 774-mile journey. stopping at 32 stations, taking 13 hours and 20 minutes. What’s left for mega-journey train fanatics? Well, the Trans-Siberian is out of bounds for the forseeable future. But I can recommend The Ghan, north to south across the continent of Australia from Darwin to Adelaide through Alice Springs. […]