ARRIVA UK TRAINS LIMITED

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Next accounts due

2026-09-30 (in 4mo)

Last filed for 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement due

2027-03-14 (in 10mo)

Last made up 2026-02-28

Watchouts

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Accounts

Audit & accounting basis

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.”

Group structure

ARRIVA UK TRAINS LIMITED · parent
1. Arriva Trains Wales / TrenauArriva Cymru Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
2. At Seat Catering (2003) Limited 0% · UK · Ordinary shares
3. XC Trains Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
4. London and North Western Railway Company Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
5. Arriva Rail North Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
6. Grand Central Railway Company Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
7. Arriva Trains Holdings Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
8. Arriva South Eastern Rail Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
9. Arriva Rail London Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary shares
10. M40 Trains Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
11. DB Regio Tyne and Wear Limited 0% · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
12. The Chiltern Railway Company Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
13. Arriva Rail LO Limited 100% · UK · Ordinary
14. WSMR (Holdings) Limited 50% · UK · Ordinary (indirectly held)
15. Wrexham Shropshire & Marylebone Railway Company Limited 50% · 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	PDF
2025-10-03	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-03-04	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2025-01-08	MA	incorporation	Memorandum articles
2025-01-08	MR01	mortgage	Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date	PDF
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	PDF
2024-11-27	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2024-02-29	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
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	PDF
2022-05-04	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-03-01	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2021-05-18	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2021-03-03	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2020-12-10	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2020-10-09	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2020-06-16	TM02	officers	Termination secretary company with name termination date	PDF

Public-record activity

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Filings: 2
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

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