Thomas Cook in Paris for the Exhibition. During the 1860s he took parties to Switzerland, Italy, Egypt and the United States. The Thomas Cook statue outside Leicester Railway Station, London Road, Leicester (pictured above) was unveiled on 14 January 1994 by his great-great-grandson Thomas Cook. It was sculpted by James Walter Butler RA. In 1872, he formed a partnership with his son, John Mason Cook, and renamed the travel agency as "Thomas Cook & Son". They acquired business premises on Fleet Street, London. The office also contained a shop which sold essential travel accessories, including guide books, luggage, telescopes and footwear. Thomas
Ambikapur railway station 400 km; making it shortest route between Mumbai and Howrah by curtailing travel time by at least four hours, sources added. Ambikapur railway station Ambikapur, station code ABKP, is a railway station that connects the city of Ambikapur and is the connecting point of Surguja district and falls within the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railway. This is one of the Railway stations that connects North Chhatishgarh with Raipur. The Railway Ministry plans to build a new 202-km line between Chirimiri (Chhattisgarh) and Barwadih (Jharkhand). The proposed line will reduce the distance between Mumbai and Howrah via Jabalpur by