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Company description
VOLKERRAIL LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 11 April 1996; registered for 30 years; registered office reported in HODDESDON, HERTFORDSHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 42120 · Construction of railways and underground railways.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 procurement record, 1 waste registration. 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.
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01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- VOLKERRAIL LIMITED
- Company number
- 03184313
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 6 total · 0 outstanding · 6 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 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
11 April 2026Next statement due
25 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 29.4%
- Mean bonus gap
- 51.1%
- Women receiving bonus
- 74.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 62.6%
- Women in top quartile
- 17.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 10.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 16.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 42.7%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99925.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99926.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49930.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49930.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49934.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49936.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49935.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49933.2% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 16 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 28 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- Network Rail Fair Payment Charter 11/11/2011
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £33,000,000
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £17,000,000
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,000,000
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £4,000,000
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 35.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Depending on the date of the invoice, the range of feasible dates range from 28 to 60 days
Retention circumstances
Retention is applied on certain construction contracts where it is a contractual requirement agreed between the parties. A percentage of each payment is withheld until the works have been completed to the required standard and any defects identified during the defects liability period have been rectified. The purpose of retention is to provide the client with financial security and to encourage the satisfactory completion of the project. The retained amount is released in accordance with the terms of the contract, typically with part released on completion and the balance following the expiry of the defects period, provided all contractual obligations have been met.
Retention release
50% is released on completion and the final 50% is released after the defects period which is usually 52 weeks
Retention release stages
50% is released on completion and the final 50% is released after the defects period which is usually 52 weeks
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Our standard terms specifiy that payment will be made on the 15th day of the second calendar month following the month of invoice, with maximum payment terms of 60 days. All subcontractors and many suppliers on Network Rail contracts however, will have payment periods not exceeding 28 days from the date of valuation or receipt of valid invoice (in agreement with the Network Rail Fair Payment Charter).
- Dispute resolution process
All disputes will be raised and managed by the site teams. The supplier will be advised of the query and it will be the responsibility of the site team to resolve with the supplier. 1. the nature of the dispute is discussed between the site team and supplier. 2. The site team and supplier will come to an agreed time frame for resolution. 3. The supplier is responsible for providing feedback to their accounts team relating to the nature of the dispute and the resolution date. 4. The respective site team will provide feedback to the Accounts Payable (AP) team as to the nature and the resolution date of the dispute. 5. Within the agreed resolution timeframe, the AP team will await instructions from the site team as to whether the dispute has been resolved ahead of schedule and whether funds can be released. 6. Where the dispute has exceeded the stated resolution timeframe, the AP team will escalate to the appropriate management level to ensure a new resolution date or payment.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 26.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay1.0% 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.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
VOLKERRAIL LIMITED
LEI 213800E1S2D913GZ9254 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 24 July 2017
- LEI last updated
- 11 November 2019
- Next renewal
- 24 July 2019
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- HERTFORD RAOD, HODDESDON, GB-HRT, EN11 9BX, GB
- Headquarters address
- HERTFORD RAOD, HODDESDON, GB-HRT, EN11 9BX, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 213800E1S2D913GZ9254 to LEI 724500827ELZ1D4JTI57
- Initial registration
- 24 July 2017
- Last updated
- 11 November 2019
- Next renewal
- 24 July 2019
- Validation sources
- ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
- Validation documents
- SUPPORTING_DOCUMENTS
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z; End: 2016-12-31T00:00:00Z; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2017-07-24T00:00:00Z; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD
- Qualifiers
- Dimension: ACCOUNTING_STANDARD; Category: IFRS
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
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06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- VOLKERRAIL LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- VOLKERWESSELS UK LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Approved
- 24 June 2025
- Sectors
- Construction, civil engineering and building products
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 August 2025
Policies described
Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits discrimination Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation Your front line staff Human resources Executive-level staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation Workers within your supply chain
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
Modern slavery posters are on our site notice boards informing individuals of the key signs of modern slavery and our reporting procedures. This information is also included in our site induction.
Demonstrated progress
We include key performance indicators in our statement to measure our performance, together with actions for the coming year.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: long and/or complicated supply chain for materials purchased outside of the EU
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 2 suppliers Tier 3 suppliers and below
- Group: Migrants
- Location: Bulgaria Romania
- Mitigation: Relevant due diligence questions are asked yearly to our supply chain on modern slavery via Constructionline and RISQS. We also ask specific questions of our supply chain on induction and via our contract specific pre let questionnaire. Our key policies are sent to our supply chain partners when onboarded. In addition we have raised awareness of the issues and what to look out for via training, posters, site induction processes etc
- Risk: unskilled labour within our supply chain
- Mitigation: Relevant due diligence questions are asked yearly to our supply chain on modern slavery via Constructionline and RISQS. We also ask specific questions of our supply chain on induction and via our contract specific pre let questionnaire. In addition we have raised awareness of the issues and what to look out for via training, posters, articles etc
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07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
VolkerRail Limited
Registration Z7459713
- Registered from
- 4 February 2003
- Current end date
- 3 February 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.
08 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Supertram Embedded Rail Replacement Phase 2
SOUTH YORKSHIRE PASSENGER TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE · ocds-b5fd17-19866abc-97a1-4869-8f69-aa96b4e25779
- Supplier named in award
- VOLKERRAIL LIMITED
- Award value
- £9,340,850.53
- Contract period
- 20 April 2018 – 1 December 2020
- Published
- 23 April 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 45234116
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-19866abc-97a1-4869-8f69-aa96b4e25779-2018-04-23T16:06:17+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
09 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Volkerrail Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 04930080
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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10 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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11 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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12 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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13 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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14 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
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15 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
16 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
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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17 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
- Company name
Previous name: GRANTRAIL LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
18 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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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