December, 2013  – Simon registers Tailor Made Rail at Companies House

May, 2014 – The first official customers (not friends and family of Simon) set off by rail to Florence via the Swiss Alps

December, 2014 – The hundredth TMR customer books a holiday with us

June, 2015 – The first TMR customers travel on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express to Venice

May, 2016 – Having provided ad hoc freelance help since 2014, Emily becomes the first full-time TMR employee

July, 2016 – TMR gets its first office – at Mercury House in Waterloo. Two part-timers join to help with sending out tickets

November, 2017 – A second sales consultant, Paul, joins the company

June, 2019 – With the help of their wonderful marketing agency, TMR launches a brand new website

Early March 2020 – Some small villages in the Veneto region of Italy are ‘locked down’ due to a new virus…

April, 2021 – Scotland opens to visitors for the first time since spring 2020. Simon and Emily cross the border the same day to check out some Scottish rail routes

April, 2022 – The team moves back into an office, this time at Argyle House, St Pancras

June, 2022 – The first full-time Operations Executive, Josh, joins us, swiftly followed by Rail Manager Zak, who’d been working with us (albeit through another supplier) for years already

August, 2022 – Anny joins our sales team, bringing the total complement of the company to six

December, 2022 – TMR celebrates its 9th anniversary with nine staff at a Christmas do in the lovely surroundings of Somerset House

December, 2023 – Celebrations all round for our 10th anniversary. Unfortunately, not everyone was able to join us for our special Christmas weekend in Brussels, but there were 13 of us present!