The closure of many railway lines in the 1950s and 1960s prompted the creation of the railway preservation movement. It started in a small way with the reopening of two narrow-gauge railways, the Talyllyn and the Ffestiniog, in Wales in the early 1950s. The first standard-gauge railway to be reopened by volunteers was the Bluebell Railway in Sussex in 1960. The rapid decline in use of steam engines on British Railways over the following decade prompted a surge of interest from railway enthusiasts to save what still remained. Since then, over 60 railways and steam centres have opened or been rebuilt, and the railway preservation movement has been one of this country's post-war success stories. No other country in the world has a railway preservation movement that has saved as much. Some railway preservation organizations are now big businesses, attracting over 100 000 visitors, creating a turnover of over £2 million. Very few have received grant aid or subsidies; all of them have relied on volunteers and donations to get started. Virtually all of them still rely on volunteers to operate their services, but significant numbers of paid staff are also employed.