Cook's idea to offer excursions came to him while "walking from Market Harborough to Leicester to attend a meeting of the Temperance Society". With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street railway station to a teetotal rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away. On 5 July 1841, Thomas Cook escorted around 485 people, who paid one shilling each for the return train journey, on his first excursion. This is sometimes reported as the world's first railway excursion #journey #journeyhacks #traveldiary #travelhacks #tourism #tourbooking #tomascook #thomascook #excursion #railway #harborough #tourism #dailyfacts #dailyquotes #daily #srilanka🇱🇰 #srilankatravel #hikkaduwa #ella #bentota https://www.instagram.com/p/CZiXvpaIcU_/?utm_medium=tumblr