 It continues to be published in 2019, but no longer by Thomas Cook Publishing, which was wound up by its parent company in 2013; the timetable was relaunched in 2014 by an independent company, under the title "European Rail Timetable", no longer affiliated with Thomas Cook Group.In 1874, Thomas Cook introduced his 'circular notes', a product that was originally devised by a London banker in the 1770s and was later superseded by American Express's 'traveller's cheques'.Conflicts of interest between father and son were resolved when the son persuaded his father, Thomas Cook, to retire at the end of 1878.