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  2. Thomas Cook European Timetable - Wikipedia

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    Cover of the December 1888 edition. The European Rail Timetable, more commonly known by its former names, the Thomas Cook European Timetable, the Thomas Cook Continental Timetable or simply Cook's Timetable, is an international timetable of selected passenger rail schedules for every country in Europe, along with a small amount of such content from areas outside Europe.

  3. Thomas Cook - Wikipedia

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    On 5 July 1841, Thomas Cook escorted around 485 people, who paid one shilling each for the return train journey, on his first excursion. [2] This is sometimes reported as the world's first railway excursion; [ 3 ] however this is incorrect as Grosmont church ( Whitby ) had already organised an excursion as a fund raiser in 1839.

  4. Cook's Travellers Handbooks - Wikipedia

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    Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook, produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond. Compared with other guides such as Murray's, Cook's ...

  5. Thomas Cook & Son - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Cook & Son, originally simply Thomas Cook, was a company founded by Thomas Cook, a cabinet-maker, in 1841 to carry temperance supporters by railway between the cities of Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Birmingham. In 1851, Cook arranged transport to the Great Exhibition of 1851. He organised his first tours to Europe in 1855 and to the ...

  6. Grand Tour - Wikipedia

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    A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...

  7. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits - Wikipedia

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    Paris, France. Owner. Newrest [fr] (since 2010) Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits[a] (International Sleeping-Car Company) is a Belgian-founded French company known for providing and operating luxury trains with sleepers and dining cars during the late 19th and the 20th centuries, most notably the Orient Express.

  8. Rail transport in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Privately owned multi-system locomotive designed for freight and passenger trains near the Danish-German border. Rail transport in Europe has diverse technological standards, operating concepts, and infrastructures. Common features are the widespread use of standard-gauge rail, high operational safety and a high share of electrification.

  9. Third voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia

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    Third voyage of James Cook. The route of Cook's third voyage shown in red; blue shows the return route after his death. James Cook 's third and final voyage (12 July 1776 – 4 October 1780) took the route from Plymouth via Tenerife and Cape Town to New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands, and along the North American coast to the Bering Strait.

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