Michael Williams

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape....

This audiobook will take the listener on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables....

In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history....

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys....