Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape or a crumbling platform from some once bustling junction buried under the buddleia if you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks or explore an old tunnel leading towell who knows where listen hard is that the wind in the undergrowth or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment the trains now departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of britain vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age in his personal odyssey around britain michael williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them it is a journey into t ...