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Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the center of a distant country landscape. Or even a crumbling system from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be in a position to follow some rusting tracks or explore a vintage tunnel leading to...well, who has learned where? Listen closely hard. Is that the breeze in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of any teach from a fantastic era of days gone by panting the embankment? They are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran with them that have disappeared and gone permanently. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with gripping and colourful stories of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive executive sent to the scrapyard and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of teach travel, such as haute food in the eating out car, the grand expresses with the evocative titles, and continental sail boat trains to romantic, far-off places. The Trains Now Departed instructs the testimonies of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly causing the glories of any bygone era. In his personal odyssey around Britain, Michael Williams instructs the stories of the pioneers who built the tracks and the yarns of the women and men who managed them and the colourful trains that ran with them. It really is a journey in to the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired with time, is fortunately not lost for ever.
