GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-07-31 (in 2mo)
Last filed for 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-19 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-05
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£11M
+4.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£29M
+27.6% vs 2023
Employees
132
+11.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£7M
+317% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-10-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £83,977,000 | £110,811,000 | |
| Operating profit | £386,000 | £7,349,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,709,000 | £7,127,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,188,000 | £6,339,000 | |
| Cash | £10,023,000 | £10,518,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £23,121,000 | £29,355,000 | |
| Net assets | £23,004,000 | £29,343,000 | |
| Equity | £23,004,000 | £29,343,000 | |
| Average employees | 118 | 132 | |
| Wages | £4,693,000 | £5,260,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-10-31 | 2024-10-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.5% | 6.6% | |
| Net margin | 1.4% | 5.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | 1.7% | 25.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 55.7% | 52.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.47x | 0.48x | |
| Interest cover | 7.72x | 6.46x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been approved on the assumption that the Company remains a going concern. The following paragraphs summarise the issues and basis on which the Directors have reached their conclusion. The Company is a member of the Group headed by the Bucharest Topco Limited. The Directors have assessed the going concern of the Group and the Company for the upcoming 2025 and beyond and have prepared a detailed budget which considers the impact of cost of living, inflation, interest rates, the global travel environment and customer behaviour. The Directors have also evaluated downside scenarios and have tested the going concern assumption against these as part of their assessment. As a result, the Directors consider the going concern basis to be appropriate based on the outturn of these projections, recent post year end trading and access to working capital facilities throughout the period. The Company is subject to regulation by the Civil Aviation Authority (the "CAA") who each year review the financial position and performance of the Company in issuing the annual Air Travel Organisers' Licence which is effective from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. At the time of signing, the Company are in receipt of an offer letter from the CAA and expect all conditions to be met to successfully renew. The wider Group has considerable financial resources and is expected to generate positive cashflows for the foreseeable future. As a result, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group and the Company have adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly they have adopted the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Group structure
- GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS LIMITED · parent
- GRJ (Transport) Limited 100%
Significant events
- “during the year, a new luxury independent range of tours went on sale for the 2025 financial year.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 20 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RILEY, David James | Director | 2018-09-28 | Aug 1980 | British |
| STEWART, Andrew Dominic | Director | 2024-11-21 | Jun 1979 | British |
Show 20 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACKHOUSE, Michael | Secretary | 2004-07-19 | 2006-02-01 |
| JOHNSON, Martin Graham | Secretary | 2006-02-01 | 2018-09-28 |
| MACBETH, Mary Catherine | Secretary | 1996-06-05 | 2001-03-30 |
| WOODROFFE, Kathleen Ann | Secretary | 2001-04-02 | 2004-07-19 |
| SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1996-06-05 | 1996-06-05 |
| APPLEYARD, Julian | Director | 2014-10-30 | 2024-11-21 |
| CLARKE, Keith George | Director | 2007-10-01 | 2016-08-31 |
| CUST, Nicholas Pury | Director | 2011-01-27 | 2018-07-09 |
| GASTER, David John | Director | 2005-09-20 | 2013-03-28 |
| JOHNSON, Martin Graham | Director | 2006-02-01 | 2018-09-28 |
| KIMBER, Steven Andrew Howard | Director | 2005-09-20 | 2009-12-24 |
| LEE, Stephen Gerard | Director | 2022-10-26 | 2025-05-30 |
| LINEY, Peter Richard | Director | 2013-09-06 | 2022-11-30 |
| MACBETH, Ian | Director | 1996-06-05 | 2005-09-20 |
| PRITCHARD, Noeleen Patricia Rita | Director | 2016-09-01 | 2021-09-13 |
| ROBERTS, Alexander James | Director | 2008-04-07 | 2018-09-28 |
| SKOLNICK, Jonathan Philip | Director | 2022-10-26 | 2025-05-30 |
| TAYLOR, Mark Andrew | Director | 2007-12-03 | 2019-12-09 |
| TRINDER, Howard Philip | Director | 1996-06-05 | 2005-09-20 |
| WILSON, Robert Graham | Director | 2010-01-04 | 2013-03-28 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Rail Journeys Partnership Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 129 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-06-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-06 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-12-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-12-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-08-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-12-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-10-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-10-26 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-07-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-07-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-05-30 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2021-09-21 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-08-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-10-31 vs 2023-10-31
-
Turnover
+32%
£83,977,000 £110,811,000
-
Cash
+4.9%
£10,023,000 £10,518,000
-
Net assets
+27.6%
£23,004,000 £29,343,000
-
Employees
+11.9%
118 132
-
Operating profit
+1,803.9%
£386,000 £7,349,000
-
Profit before tax
+317%
£1,709,000 £7,127,000
-
Wages
+12.1%
£4,693,000 £5,260,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers