Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
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The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) is a national society founded in Cheltenham, England in 1928 to bring together those interested in rail transport and locomotives.
Since 1929 the Society has published a regular journal The Railway Observer which records the current railway scene. It also has regional branches which organise meetings and trips to places of interest and an archive & library.
It has published definitive multi-volume locomotive histories of the Great Western, Southern and London & North Eastern Railways, and has in progress similar works on the London, Midland & Scottish Railway and British Railways standard steam locomotives. It also has published many other historical railway books since the mid-1950s.
On 2 November 2016, the RCTS become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), registered number 1169995.[1] Its new Archive and Library (located within the former station-master's house at Leatherhead station) was opened on 6 October 2018[2] by TV personality and antiques expert Paul Atterbury.