Railway history: everything you wanted to know
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Trains for Holidays
Holidays were a big kind of aspect of railway use right from the beginning. Thomas Crook invented train tours taking people out for picnics to places and then coming back usually on the same day. Later on we get people traveling for a week by the seaside or week to the mountains or whatever by rail coming back by rail again.
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