Michael Williams is a national newspaper and magazine journalist. When he's not travelling around the country on slow trains, he commutes at speed on the 440-mile round rail trip between his home in L...
20 May 2013
'Gripping as a fictional thriller', says the Sunday Express in its review of my new book 'Steaming to Victory'
15 May 2013
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09 May 2013
Hello Mr Williams, I apolgize for delay in replying to your kind reply. We are pleased to include a...
Posted by: shedmaster 23 June 2010Here are some recent comments from the media about On the Slow Train and On the Slow Train Again: "A delicious read" – London Evening Standard; "A magical world barely changed since the golden age of rail" – The Daily Mail; "On track to a trip back in time" - The Daily Telegraph; "Captivating" – The Sunday Express; "Deep in our soul, the railways represent an idyll that we love" - The Independent; "A celebration of the delights of rail travel in the 21st century" – Hampstead and Highgate Express; "Even in the age of the Pendolino and Eurostar, the slow train lives on. The book provides evidence of a Britain that is as forgotten as the lines on which Michael Williams travels...This is its strength" – Christian Wolmar, The Oldie; "A eulogy to a lost world" -– Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune; "Superb narrative, interspersed with dry humour, acute observations and some excellent anecdotes that make you feel feel you know the lines so well that you want to travel on them...there are some wonderful bitter-sweet moments emerging from the pages, as the reader is taken on a fascinating series of journeys." – The Railway Magazine; "Michael Williams takes us along memory lane but his description of each route encapsuates a taste of 21st century Britain gleaned from the people he talks to along the way" – Heritage Railway; "The author takes the reader on 12 historic railway routes that still offer much of the same charm as when rail was the way to travel. There may not be a steam loco on the front, but there's no doubting the author's enthusiasm for railways and rail travel" – Steam Railway; "Idyllic" – Lancashire Evening Post; 'Highly readable" – Newsletter, London Transport Museum
My account in the Daily Mail of my 30,000 miles of rail travel around Britain, with my top Ten British Train Journeys
My journey along the lovely Bittern Line in Norfolk, from On the Slow Train Again
My celebration in the Daily Telegraph of a year of travel on the slow trains and branch lines of Britain
The railways are a national treasure: Michael Williams writes on slow trains in the Comment pages of The Independent
The enduring nostalgia of slow trains: Michael Williams's article from the Daily Mail
Original sound recordings with some nostalgic pictures added
Lots of useful information about the slow trains and branch lines of Britain
Michael Williams writes for many publications, including the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the New Statesman, The Oldie and the railway specialist pre...