The 1950s and '60s saw a huge upsurge in the running of enthusiasts' railtours, manyrntaking the form of'last trains'on doomed routes and others taking locomotives to parts of the country they would never have visited in the course of their normal working lives.rnAt the time, four organisations were particularly active in the arranging of such tours - thernRailway Correspondence & Travel Society (RCTS), the Locomotive Club of Great Britain (LCGB), the Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) and the Ian Allan Locospotters Club. A great debt of gratitude is owed to these groups, without whose tours we would not today have such a rich photographic record of remote, rarely-visited branch lines.
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