ARRIVA UK TRAINS LIMITED

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

• Turnover

  —

  Not reported

• Cash

  +52.2%

  £42,099,000 → £64,080,000

• Net assets

  +6.3%

  £228,844,000 → £243,147,000

• Employees

  +5.2%

  97 → 102

• Operating profit

  -73.8%

  -£8,241,000 → -£14,323,000

• Profit before tax

  -11.3%

  £16,120,000 → £14,303,000

• Wages

  +32.7%

  £9,405,000 → £12,478,000

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

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.

1. ARRIVA UK TRAINS LIMITED 2007-10-08 → present
2. ARRIVA TRAINS LIMITED 2001-03-20 → 2007-10-08
3. MTL RAIL LIMITED 1996-03-21 → 2001-03-20
4. MAINDISC LIMITED 1996-02-29 → 1996-03-21

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

1. 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.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.