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Company description
DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 4 September 1986; registered for 40 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 49311 · Urban and suburban passenger railway transportation by underground, metro and similar systems.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 2 trade marks, 2 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY LIMITED
- Company number
- 02052677
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
6 June 2026Next statement due
20 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 April 2026 – 30 September 2026
- Filed
- 23 October 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 8 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £173,490,019
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £2,487,887
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £705,559
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £12,830,356
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 8.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 4.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention release
Partial release on completion with balance released when Defects Certificate is issued or upon completion of the Defects Liability Period
Retention release stages
50% on completion
50% after defects resolved
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- Yes
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 3.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 1.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days
- Dispute resolution process
Transport for London and its subsidiaries has enhanced its automatic communication with suppliers enabling them to be notified of any issues preventing an invoice from being processed for payment. Suppliers are notified in writing if there may be a delay in payment of invoices. Information on this process can be found at https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/suppliers-and-contractors/recieving-orders-and-getting-paid#on-this-page-3
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 19.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- Transport for London
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 23 September 2026
- Sectors
- Public sector
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 20 October 2026
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination
Training described
Your suppliers
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Trade unions or worker representative groups Civil society organisations Workers within your organisation Central or local government Businesses in your industry or sector
Grievance mechanisms
Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Supporting victims via NGO
Demonstrated progress
We will strengthen our HRDD processes by creating a new ethical sourcing action plan template, addressing gaps identified through Electronics Watch, deepen supply chain mapping. We will update our risk assessment in 2026/27 and adjust the key suppliers list by including more risk factors, e.g. MSAT scores and supply chain mapping data. We will repeat MSAT campaign, providing training/follow ups to suppliers scoring below 70% and track progress through KPIs on supplier engagement and performance.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Human rights violations in zero emission bus supply chain in China, DRC, Hungary, Malaysia. Workers on production sites.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Women Migrants Other vulnerable groups
- Location: Congo (Democratic Republic) China Hungary Malaysia
- Mitigation: TfL is a member of Electronics Watch, and works with the organisation to address the human and labour rights risks in the ICT supply chains. They managed to improve working hours in Hungary. and aid in resolving other cases. We intervene and use our leverage when there are indications that our suppliers are not using their own leverage to the extent they can and should to mitigate risks.
- Risk: ICT supply chain risks in electronic supply chains in China, DRC, India, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand. Workers manufacturing electronic hardware.
- Location: Congo (Democratic Republic) China India Malaysia Thailand Taiwan
- Mitigation: TfL is a member of Electronics Watch, and works with the organisation to address the human and labour rights risks in the ICT supply chains. Where risk are identified - Electronics Watch supports enforcement of our contract obligations. It worked to ensure good outcomes like a final assembly facility in India has no late payments of bonuses anymore and this did not recur. Also 158 Burmese Migrants were refunded for fees paid to secure their job. We use our leverage to aid this.
- Risk: E-scooter batteries. Workers manufacturing in global supply chains with forced labour and labour rights risk.
- Location: Taiwan
- Mitigation: Similar to issues with E-Bikes in previous statement, when sending out tenders - bidders have to provide us with evidence of their risk assessment to demonstrate Employer Pays Principle. This is apart of contract requirements for winning bidders.
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05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Docklands Light Railway Limited
Registration ZA937007
- Registered from
- 10 March 2021
- Current end date
- 9 March 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
DLR
Owner Docklands Light Railway Limited · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 19 September 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 September 2005
DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAIL
Owner Docklands Light Railway Limited · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 19 September 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 September 2005
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Transport For London
- Has significant influence or control
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Statutory Corporation Established Under The Greater London Act 1999
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Transport Trading Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- United Kingdom (England And Wales) Companies House
- Registration number
- 03914810
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
London Overground 3 Concession Agreement
Transport for London/Rail for London Limited · updated 25 November 2024
- Tender value
- £2,300,000,000
- Awards
- 0
London Cable Car Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Contract
Transport for London · updated 26 March 2024
- Tender value
- £72,500,000
- Awards
- 1
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
2 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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