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ARRIVA UK TRAINS LIMITED
Profile
- Company number
- 03166214
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 1996-02-29
- Last accounts made up
- 2024-12-31
- Account category
- FULL
- Primary SIC
- 49100
Accounts
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Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis as the cash pool agreement states that the company will have full and immediate access to its pooled cash balances with ATCO to settle its liabilities as they fall due. The company will also continue to operate for the foreseeable future.”
Subsidiaries
- Arriva Trains Wales / TrenauArriva Cymru Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- At Seat Catering (2003) Limited · 0% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- XC Trains Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- London and North Western Railway Company Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- Arriva Rail North Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- Grand Central Railway Company Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- Arriva Trains Holdings Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- Arriva South Eastern Rail Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- Arriva Rail London Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary shares
- M40 Trains Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
- DB Regio Tyne and Wear Limited · 0% held · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
- The Chiltern Railway Company Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
- Arriva Rail LO Limited · 100% held · UK · Ordinary
- WSMR (Holdings) Limited · 50% held · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
- Wrexham Shropshire & Marylebone Railway Company Limited · 50% held · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
Significant events
- “On 19 October 2023, Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) announced an agreement had been signed under which Arriva Limited, the company's intermediate parent company, would be sold to I Squared Capital. This transaction completed on 31 May 2024. Following this, the company was no longer part of the DB group.”
- “At Seat Catering (2003) Limited was dissolved on 10 December 2024.”
- “DB Regio Tyne and Wear Limited changed name to Regio Tyne and Wear Limited on 28 June 2024 and was subsequently dissolved on 1 July 2025.”
- “Arriva Rail XC Limited changed name to Arriva Rail EL Limited on 27 February 2024 and then to Arriva Rail LO Limited on 19 December 2024.”
- “In December 2024, the company acceded to the Senior Facilities Agreement (SFA) between a consortium of lenders and Arriva International Group Limited, an indirect parent of the company. As part of this process, the company granted security in favour of Kroll Trustee Services Limited, as the security agent for the lenders, by way of a first fixed charge over certain of the company's bank accounts, shareholdings and receivables, and security was granted over the company's shares. New articles were adopted by the company in December 2024 to reflect the banks' transfer rights in relation to the company's shares which had been charged by way of security by its shareholder, MTL Services Limited.”
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People
3 active · 38 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROOKS, Christopher John | Director | 2016-12-12 | Jul 1975 | British |
| FURLONG, Amanda | Director | 2011-10-01 | May 1975 | British |
| SCOTT, Alexis James | Director | 2024-11-27 | Mar 1983 | British |
Show 38 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARLOW, Timothy John | Secretary | 1996-08-29 | 1997-03-10 |
| CAMPBELL, Iain Fraser | Secretary | 1996-08-29 | 1997-03-10 |
| DAVIES, Elizabeth Anne | Secretary | 2005-01-18 | 2013-12-16 |
| EDWARDS, Lorna | Secretary | 2013-12-16 | 2020-06-12 |
| MILLINGTON, Ronald Gordon | Secretary | 1996-03-14 | 1996-06-20 |
| TURNER, David Paul | Secretary | 2000-02-25 | 2005-01-18 |
| WOODWARD, Deborah Anne | Secretary | 1997-03-10 | 2000-02-25 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-02-29 | 1996-03-14 |
| ALLAN, Julie Jane | Director | 2003-12-31 | 2004-12-31 |
| APPLEGARTH, David Christopher John | Director | 2003-07-17 | 2015-04-30 |
| BALDWIN, Rachel Helen | Director | 2014-04-25 | 2016-08-10 |
| BELL, Timothy Simon | Director | 2013-03-13 | 2014-01-01 |
| BROWN, David | Director | 2020-11-27 | 2024-11-27 |
| BURCHELL, Christopher Derek Dyne | Director | 2014-11-17 | 2020-10-09 |
| CAMERON, Euan Alexander Robert | Director | 2001-01-31 | 2003-12-31 |
| CAMPBELL, Iain Fraser | Director | 1996-12-19 | 1997-06-15 |
| CARLAW, Kenneth Mcintyre | Director | 2012-08-28 | 2016-03-31 |
| CLAYTON, Stephen John | Director | 2000-02-17 | 2009-04-22 |
| COBBE, Roger Brian | Director | 2003-11-26 | 2017-12-31 |
| COOMBES, Peter Geoffrey | Director | 1996-03-14 | 1999-08-12 |
| DAVIES, Robert John | Director | 2000-10-16 | 2006-04-19 |
| DAVISON, Paul Graham | Director | 1999-03-24 | 2000-05-05 |
| DAVISON, Peter Charles | Director | 2015-06-23 | 2019-04-12 |
| FULLER, Colin Eric | Director | 1996-12-19 | 2000-02-17 |
| HARRISON, Richard Charles Vyvyan | Director | 2014-01-01 | 2016-12-12 |
| HEWITT, Mary Elisabeth Courtney | Director | 2017-10-17 | 2020-01-01 |
| HODSON, Michael Peter | Director | 1999-05-18 | 2000-05-05 |
| HOLLAND, Robert William | Director | 2006-06-12 | 2014-05-31 |
| LONSDALE, Stephen Philip | Director | 2000-02-17 | 2010-12-16 |
| MARTIN, David Robert | Director | 2000-02-17 | 2002-05-07 |
| MILLINGTON, Ronald Gordon | Director | 1996-03-14 | 1996-06-20 |
| PARKINS, Richard Andrew | Director | 1999-03-24 | 1999-04-06 |
| PRICE, Raymond Christopher | Director | 2003-11-26 | 2004-09-30 |
| RAY, John Alfred | Director | 2000-02-17 | 2002-05-01 |
| ROBERTS, Graham Stanley | Director | 1999-08-12 | 2000-02-17 |
| SHIRMAN, Henry Norman | Director | 1997-06-30 | 1999-03-10 |
| TELFORD, Peter Thomas | Director | 2003-12-31 | 2008-09-01 |
| INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1996-02-29 | 1996-03-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mtl Services Limited | Corporate entity | Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 194 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2025-10-03 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2025-03-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2025-01-08 | MA | incorporation | memorandum articles |
| 2025-01-08 | MR01 | mortgage | mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date |
| 2025-01-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | resolution |
| 2024-12-23 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2024-11-27 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2024-11-27 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2024-02-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2023-08-29 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2023-05-12 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2023-03-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2022-05-04 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2022-03-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2021-05-18 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type full |
| 2021-03-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2020-12-10 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2020-10-09 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2020-06-16 | TM02 | officers | termination secretary company with name termination date |
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