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Informationen zum Autor Michael Williams is the best-selling author of On the Slow Train, On the Slow Train Again and Steaming to Victory . He is a journalist, academic and author - writing, blogging and broadcasting on railways and other subjects for many media outlets, including the Independent , the BBC, the Daily Mail , the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman , as well as the specialist railway press. He is also a travel writer, having covered the world for a variety of publications. He lives with his family in Camden Town, not far from St Pancras - Britain's most splendid railway station. Klappentext Michael Williams is the best-selling author of On the Slow Train, On the Slow Train Again and Steaming to Victory . He is a journalist, academic and author ¿ writing, blogging and broadcasting on railways and other subjects for many media outlets, including the Independent , the BBC, the Daily Mail , the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman , as well as the specialist railway press. He is also a travel writer, having covered the world for a variety of publications. He lives with his family in Camden Town, not far from St Pancras ¿ Britain's most splendid railway station. Zusammenfassung Tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. This book includes lines prematurely axed, often with a colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. It also includes maps.
