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VALE OF RHEIDOL RAILWAY LIMITED
Profile
- Company number
- 02188631
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 1987-11-04
- Last accounts made up
- 2024-12-31
- Account category
- GROUP
- Primary SIC
- 49100
Accounts
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Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated (group)
- Auditor
- Ashmole & Co
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Trustees are of the opinion that the charitable company is a going concern.”
Subsidiaries
- Vale of Rheidol Trading Limited · 100% held · England and Wales · trading activities with the purpose of raising money for donation to the charity
Significant events
- “In 2024 the railway carried 42,100 passengers (passenger numbers in 2023 were 41,918).”
- “hosted the first Polar Express train ride event which totalled 65 performances. The event took place in December and attracted an additional 9,000 passengers to the railway.”
- “The Ffestiniog Railway's locomotive 'Palmerston' spent the majority of the year at the railway, returning to the railway initially hired in by the original company in 1912.”
- “A Steam Festival event was held over the August bank holiday weekend with locomotives No 7, No 8, NGG13 No 60, Wren 3114, Margaret and Palmerston all in steam.”
- “Construction was completed on the Great Western Railway locomotive shed and this opened on 25th March 2024 as a new narrow gauge railway museum.”
- “A category red storm hit Mid Wales in December bringing with it considerable disruption to the local area and power outages.”
- “In March 2024 a blocked culvert at the Horseshoe bend caused a washout of the track on the curve.”
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People
4 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELLIS, Philip John Neville | Director | 2007-07-02 | Mar 1941 | British |
| HIGGS, Clive Richard, Dr | Director | 2016-09-01 | May 1952 | British |
| KEEF, Patrick Michael | Director | 2023-07-28 | Nov 1966 | British |
| MCKIE, Jonathan Nichol | Director | 2025-06-06 | Apr 1963 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCHER, Ann | Secretary | — | 2008-10-03 |
| AP IOLO, Llyr | Director | 2015-04-09 | 2025-10-17 |
| ARCHER, Ann | Director | 1999-05-10 | 2008-10-03 |
| BARDWELL, Colin William | Director | — | 2001-08-20 |
| HILLS, Anthony John | Director | — | 1996-11-03 |
| LANGER, Charles Stephen | Director | 2014-11-17 | 2025-10-17 |
| RAMPTON, Peter John | Director | — | 2019-07-03 |
| THOMPSON, Neil | Director | 2005-07-08 | 2012-12-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Simon Moriarty | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2024-11-13 | Active |
| Mr David Wynne Evans | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2023-12-22 | Ceased 2025-06-06 |
| Peter Salter | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2017-08-25 | Ceased 2021-11-05 |
| Mrs Ann Archer | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2023-12-22 |
| Mr Andrew Christopher Bronwin | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2021-11-05 |
| Mr Charles Stephen Langer | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas Acomb | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 145 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with updates |
| 2025-10-20 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-10-20 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-09-23 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2025-06-18 | MA | incorporation | memorandum articles |
| 2025-06-18 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | resolution |
| 2025-06-12 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | cessation of a person with significant control |
| 2025-06-12 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2024-11-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with updates |
| 2024-11-13 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | notification of a person with significant control |
| 2024-11-13 | PSC01 | persons-with-significant-control | notification of a person with significant control |
| 2024-11-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | cessation of a person with significant control |
| 2024-10-04 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type total exemption full |
| 2024-01-06 | MA | incorporation | memorandum articles |
| 2024-01-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | resolution |
| 2023-12-28 | CC04 | change-of-constitution | statement of companys objects |
| 2023-11-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with updates |
| 2023-11-02 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2023-07-31 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2023-07-31 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
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