Is Thomas Cook European Timetable available at Heathrow/ Gatwick?
 

I like to keep the latest Thomas Cook Timetabe on hand for reference. Usually I buy it at Stanfords; but sometimes I am unable to go into town while stoping over at airport. Is it possible to find the timetable at Heathorw/Gatwick?

Anyone?

Well - it will be hard to know exactly what the LHR booksellers have in stock. I few times I have waited til at the airport to pick up something - the last thing that comes to mind was the Time Out Restaurant guide and they were out of stock.

Why don't you order one on-line . . . . .

I've never noticed it there (not that that proves anything). But most of the newsagents at LHR and LGW have a pretty limited range of magazines (the TC timetable is normally stocked in the magazine section of places that have it), and their transportation geek section is normally allocated to more obscure stuff about planes than most of us would ever want to know. The WHS landside at LHR T1 domestic departures normally has a better range than most.

It's almost always available at the biggest WHS in bigger railway stations, so if you're changing airports, you could go the fastest, least convenient, way of train/tubing or just tubing to Victoria (where the very big WHS almost always has it among the geeky magazines about steam engines), then getting Southern Railways to Gatwick.

But if you're staying in one airport, you're safer getting it online.

Dear Janis and Flanneruk, Thank you both for the replies.

I know I should simply order it online, but just far too lazy to lug it across the pond.

I usually buy it twice a year and generally get it from one of the stations in London, but its availability is erratic. W H Smith display it amongst either the railway magazines or the reference books. At Victoria and some other big stations, there is also a Thomas Cook office, mainly for currency exchange, and they usually have a limited supply of European Timetables. It is generally published around the beginning of each month and shops have a stock until they are all sold; if you look late in the month, there may be no copies left. In most countires, timetables used to change twice a year, in late-May and late-September, so the June and October issues contained significant updates, but major timetable changes now happen once a year, in mid-December, and the December issue is the one with the main updates.

Again, many thanks for the info.