A WordPress migration and restructure for the RCTS, a railway society with 57,000+ products and 2,000+ members.
Client since March 2026 | WordPress and WooCommerce | Visit rcts.org.uk
StudioRav migrated and restructured the WordPress website of the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS), a railway society founded in 1928. We rebuilt a site with over 57,000 products and more than 2,000 members, including the members area and online shop, and trained the team to manage it. We have worked with RCTS since March 2026.
What did StudioRav do for RCTS?
WordPress migration and restructuring of the existing site, rebuilt to carry over 57,000+ products and 2,000+ members
Training provided so the society's team can manage the site themselves
Home page, header, footer and navigation designed and built
A members area with sign-in and members' benefits
An online shop with product pages, product reviews and a join product, plus second-hand books imported with their authors
Pages for the society's national branch network, with meetings and events
Knowledge Hub content, including locomotive histories, a photographic archive, digitised publications and the RCTS library
Orders and customers copied from the archive to the new site, forms updated and tested, and a cookie notice added
The site runs on WordPress with an online shop. See the WordPress development and ecommerce development services behind this project, or visit rcts.org.uk.
Homepage, branches page and mobile site, as live in October 2026. Select an image to enlarge.
57,000+
products moved to the rebuilt site
Alongside more than 2,000 members, migrated and restructured, with training provided to the society's team.
“RCTS needed a very large WordPress site with thousands of members moved and restructured without losing anything. We rebuilt it properly and trained their team to run it themselves.”
Ravi Kaul, StudioRav
FAQs
About this case study
What did StudioRav do for RCTS?
We migrated and restructured the WordPress website for the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, rebuilding a site with over 57,000 products and more than 2,000 members, and we trained the society's team to run it.
What platform does the RCTS website use?
Can StudioRav build a members area?
Yes. For RCTS we built a members area with sign-in and members' benefits, alongside the public site. See our WordPress development service.
Can StudioRav move orders and customers from an old site?
Yes. For RCTS we copied orders and customers from the archive to the new site and tested the forms, so the society's records carried over. Our website management team can help after launch too.
Want a members area and shop built like this?
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