[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.
Lapper and Broad quickly realised that this name lacked national appeal and between them persuaded their fellow members to change it to the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society (RCTS) with effect from January 1928.
It is the Society's proud boast that it has never failed to publish twelve editions of the RO every year since then, including throughout World War II[4] and several national printers' strikes in the 1950s and 1960s.
On 11 September 1938 the world's first chartered special train exclusively for rail enthusiasts was operated by the RCTS, using the ex-GNR Stirling 'Single' No.1 on a round trip from London Kings Cross to Peterborough North.
War intervened to prevent further excursions of this nature but, on 25 May 1946, the Longmoor Military Railway ran a trip around its site for RCTS members then, on 30 September 1950, a tour of the newly formed Southern Region of British Railways ran from Holborn Viaduct to London Victoria using three different steam locomotives, including the Society's 'trademark' Schools class No.