Series
British Railways Board: Transportation Systems and Market Research Limited (Transmark):...
Catalogue reference: AN 202
What's it about?
AN 202
Reports, minutes, agreements, correspondence and plans of selected projects showing the spread of activity of the company. The series also contains a small amount of the company's promotional material.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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AN 202
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Railways Board: Transportation Systems and Market Research Limited (Transmark): Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1970-1992
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports, minutes, agreements, correspondence and plans of selected projects showing the spread of activity of the company. The series also contains a small amount of the company's promotional material.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Broadly chronological.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Transportation Systems and Market Research Limited (Transmark), 1969-1993
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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258 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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2002-2006 BRB (Residuary) Ltd
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Created by Transmark, a subsidiary company of the British Railways Board (BRB), and passed by the BRB to British Railways Board (Residuary) Ltd in February 2001.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1978-1990
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected to illustrate the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK. Records of only a few key projects, showing the spread of Transmark's activity, have been preserved.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Transmark was created in 1969 out of the market research section of the Corporate Planning Department of British Rail. It was a limited company wholly owned by the British Railways Board. It was sold in 1993 to Sir William Halcrow and Partners Ltd.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15930/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AN
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British Railways Board: Transportation Systems and Market Research Limited (Transmark): Records