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October 2025: TRL moves to new location in Wokingham

Then and Now  After nearly 70 years at Crowthorne, TRL is moving to new premises in nearby central Wokingham. The new facilities - at Unit 19 The Business Centre off Molly Millars Lane in Wokingham -  include modern flexible office and meeting space, workshops and laboratories. Crowthorne House, home to TRL since 2004, is due to be demolished, making way for residential housing which will complete the redevelopment of the whole TRL 250 acre site.
The attached brochure from 1967 illustrates the scale of the facilities (200 laboratories!) and the test track which were built in the 1950s, making Crowthorne a global centre for transportation research that was unique. A small part of the test track - the banked bend - has been preserved within Bucklers Park, and there are other information signs around the park to illustrate a small selection of the activities that took place there.
TRL has never stood still, always changing what it does and how it works in order to stay relevant. Today our "test track" is among the live traffic of London streets. Staff inhabit computer applications rather than lab coats. We continue to test and validate transport and road related stuff, we simply do it differently. This move is just another chapter, just another milestone in our mission to improve highways and transportation systems for road users and the communities they serve. 

 

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