The Brighton Railway Company are announcing that by their Royal Mail route via Newhaven, Dieppe, and Rouen to Paris and the Continent, through the charming scenery of Normandy and the Valley of the Seine, a special fourteen day excursion to Paris will be run from London by the express day service on Saturday morning, Dec. 23, and also by the express night service on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening, Dec. 22, 23, and 24.

The Great Northern Railway Company announce that on Friday night, Dec. 22 (for five and eight days), and Friday night, Dec 29 (for five and eight days), cheap excursions will leave London (Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard), Greenwich (S.E. and C.), Victoria (S.E. and C.), Ludgate Hill, Moorgate, Aldersgate, Farringdon, King's Cross (G.N.), etc., for Northallerton, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle, Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, and other stations.

The London and North Western Company announce excursions as follows: On Dec 22 to Dublin, Greenore, Belfast, Ardglass, Armagh, Bray, Bundoran, Cork, Downpatrick, Enniskillen, Galway, Killaloe, Killarney,

Limerick, Londonderry, Newcastle (County Down), Newry, Wicklow, and other places in Ireland. Carlisle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Arbroath, Ayr, Ballater, Banff, Brechin, Dumbarton. Dumfries, Dundee, and Scotland generally.

The London and South Western Railway will issue cheap third-class return tickets from London to stations in the West of England, North and South Devon and North Cornwall, also to Weymouth, Dorchester, Poole, Bournemouth, etc., by all trains on Dec. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25, and to stations on the Somerset and Dorset line on Dec. 20, 21, 22, and 23, available to return up to Dec. 30.

The Great Western Railway Company announce that on Thursday, Dec. 21, cheap excursions will be run from Paddington, Clapham Junction, Kensington (Addison Road), Hammersmith etc. to Cork and Killarney ; on Friday, Dec 22, to Waterford, Limerick, Tralee, Kilkenny. Killarney, Belfast, Armagh, Giant's Causeway, etc. ; on Friday and Saturday nights, Dec. 22 and 23, to Exeter. Plymouth, Falmouth, etc., to return Dec. 26 or 27 .

Cheap excursion trains will be run by the Midland Railway Company from London (St. Pancras) and principal provincial stations to Carlisle, Edinburgh. Glasgow. Greenock, Dundee, Aberdeen, etc., on Friday, Dec 22 and 29, for five or eight days, by which return tickets will be issued at a third-class single fare for the double journey . The single-fare tickets issued on Dec. 22 will be available for returning on any day up to and including Jan. 6, 1900.

For visiting Holland and Germany during the Christmas Holidays the Great Eastern Railway Company's Royal Mail Hook of Holland route offers exceptional facilities. Passengers leaving London in the evening, and the northern and midland counties in the afternoon, arrive at the chief Dutch cities the following morning, Cologne about noon, and Bale and Berlin in the evening. Cheap tickets will be issued to Brussels, via Harwich and Antwerp, Dec. 21, 22, 23, 25, and 26, available for eight days. The General Steam Navigation Company's steamers will leave Harwich for Hamburg Dec. 20 and 23.

For the convenience of Londoners sending Christmas parcels to the country the Great Central Railway has organised a special service of vans for prompt despatch of parcels by their express trains from Marylebone terminus .

Source: Illustrated London News dated 16 Dec 1899

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