Transmark

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On the 1st January 1970 Transmark, (Transportation Systems and Market Research Ltd) was established offering its considerable expertise as a consultancy to the benefit of railway companies worldwide. The BR Research Division brought together personnel and expertise from all over the country, including the LMS Scientific Research Laboratory. Their remit was not simply the improvement of existing equipment, or the solution of existing problems, but fundamental research from first principles, into railway operation. The results of its work would go on to inform development by engineers, manufacturers and railways all over the world. For instance, once the initial APT-E experimental project was complete, it passed to the mechanical engineering department to build the APT-P prototype. In time, engineers would be seconded to other countries for varying periods under the trade name "Transmark". Thus this was the consultancy arm of BR Research Ltd. Transmark was eventually privatised and sold to Sir William Halcrow & Partners Ltd (Halcrow). Halcrow www.halcrow.com

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