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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 passenger rail schedules for every country in Europe, along with a small amount of such content from areas outside Europe. It also includes regularly scheduled passenger shipping services and a few intercity bus (coach) services on routes where rail services are not operated. Except during World War II, it has been in continuous publication since 1873. Until 2013 it was published by Thomas Cook Publishing,〔 in the United Kingdom, and since 1883 has been issued monthly. The longstanding inclusion of "Continental" in the title reflected the fact that coverage was, for many years, mostly limited to continental Europe. Information on rail services in Great Britain was limited to only about 30 pages (out of about 400-plus pages) until 1954 and then omitted entirely until 1970. June 2011 marked the 1500th edition. Although minor changes to the publication's title have been made over the years, every version included "Continental", rather than "European", from 1873 through 1987 — except for a brief period (1977–1980) when the coverage was expanded to worldwide and the name became the ''Thomas Cook International Timetable''. From 1981, most non-European content was moved into a new publication named the ''Thomas Cook Overseas Timetable''. "Rail" was added to the title only relatively recently, in 2005, making it the ''Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable'', but its coverage continued to include some non-rail content, such as passenger shipping and ferry timetables. The ''Timetable'' has been recommended by several editors of travel guide books for Europe, one of whom described it as "the most revered and accurate railway reference in existence". On 1 July 2013, Thomas Cook announced that it would cease publishing the ''Timetable'' and all of its other publications, in accordance with a decision to close the company's publishing business altogether. The final Thomas Cook edition of the ''Timetable'' was published in August 2013. However, at the end of October it was announced that publication would resume, independent of Thomas Cook Group, in February 2014 as a result of agreements that had been reached allowing the formation of a new company for that purpose, European Rail Timetable Limited.〔 The new company is owned by John Potter, who was a member of the former editorial staff.〔 The new version does not include Thomas Cook in its title. The first issue compiled by the new company was published in March 2014, with the publication title now being ''European Rail Timetable''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.europeanrailtimetable.eu/home.html )〕 == History and overview == The idea that Thomas Cook & Son should publish a compendium of railway and steamship timetables for continental Europe was proposed by Cook employee John Bredall and approved by John Mason Cook, son of company founder Thomas Cook. The first issue was published in March 1873,〔 under the title ''Cook's Continental Time Tables & Tourist's Handbook''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= Thomas Cook Group )〕 The first editor, part-time only, was John Bredall. The title was later altered to ''Cook's Continental Time Tables, Tourist's Handbook and Steamship Tables''. Publication was quarterly until the beginning of 1883, and monthly thereafter. Except for a break during World War II, publication has continued to be monthly ever since 1883.〔 The ''Timetable'' has only had six editors-in-chief in its history. John Bredall was followed in 1914 by C. H. Davies.〔 Later editors were H. V. Francis (1946–52), John H. Price (1952–85, then Managing Editor until 1988),〔"John Price" (obituary of). ''Tramways & Urban Transit'' magazine, December 1998, p. 478. Ian Allan Publishing. ISSN 1460-8324.〕 Brendan H. Fox (1985–2013), and John Potter (since 2014). So as to remain sufficiently compact that it can be easily carried by a railway traveller, the ''Timetable'' does not show every scheduled train and every line for each country, but shows all major lines and most minor lines.〔 It has always been a softcover book. World War I did not interrupt publication, but emphasis during the war was shifted more to shipping services, the result of disruption of rail service in several countries. During World War II, however, the timetable's publication was suspended, the last prewar issue being that of August 1939. Publication resumed in 1946.〔〔 Cook's chief competitor, ''Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide'', also ceased publication in 1939, but did not resume after the war (A Bradshaw Guide covering just the United Kingdom survived until 1961). This improved the potential for significant increase in sales of the ''Cook's Timetable'' in the postwar period, and Thomas Cook began to offer it in the form of a monthly subscription, in addition to selling individual copies.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Cook European Timetable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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