Why train travel will be sexy again, according to writer Michael Williams

By Jo Baker, Post Magazine, South China Morning Post; June 20, 2015

The British writer and expert on train travel talks to Jo Baker about the lure of life on the rails and an Indian trip that ended at the altar

LEARNING TO BE STILL There is a mellowness to train travel. The pace of trains can be slow and there are all sorts of things you can do – have conversations with people, make friendships with strangers, contemplate; you can see the landscape in a way that you can’t from any other form of transport. Sir John Betjeman, the former British poet laureate, said trains are made for meditation, and that’s how I rather see them.

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