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
Waterfall (SMR) railway station wartime, the station operated until closure in September 1923. The line through the station remains operational. The railway line starts in the valley bottom at Llanberis station at an altitude of , and Waterfall station stands at . The line subsequently rises to Summit station, which stands at , below the summit of the mountain. The station is closed to passengers, but the station building remains in use as an engineers' base. The original station had one platform, which was demolished after closure. During the latter part of 2016 Snowdon Mountain Railway engineers constructed two new platforms at Waterfall station,