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The Trains Now Departed

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The Trains Now Departed

The Trains Now Departed is a new book that looks at the lost delights of Britain's railways.

Railway enthusiast Michael Williams sought out 16 vanished icons of British railway history—from the now vanished Somerset and Dorset line to the Waverley line, to the train that was ahead of its time, the Liverpool overhead railway.

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