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Company description
HS1 LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 2 April 1998; registered for 28 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 49319 · Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar). In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 31 March 2026, it reported turnover £291,900,000, profit after tax £115,300,000, net assets £703,100,000, average employees 62.
Compared with the previous available reporting period, turnover decreased by 0.5%. Among active companies with electronic accounts available to BritDB, it ranks 79 by latest disclosed GBP turnover; this is a dataset comparison, not a credit rating. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 10 trade marks, 3 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
- HS1 LIMITED
- Company number
- 03539665
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 32 total · 14 outstanding · 18 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 2026Next accounts due
31 December 2027Last statement made up to
2 April 2026Next statement due
16 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Turnover
- £291,900,000
- Gross profit
- £42,300,000
- Profit before tax
- £133,000,000
- Profit after tax
- £115,300,000
- Fixed assets
- £3,923,300,000
- Net assets
- £703,100,000
- Current assets
- £121,800,000
- Current liabilities
- £355,200,000
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £3,689,900,000
- Cash at bank
- £3,000,000
- Equity
- £703,100,000
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
Earlier imported periods (1)
- Accounts£612,100,000 net assets
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 28 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- 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 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £141,459,885
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £54,684,951
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,458,236
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £17,811,993
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 11.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
On a contract to contract basis, we may choose to include a retention option clause where the contract is longer term.
Retention parity policy
HS1 Limited is usually the payer, as such retention clauses do not apply to HS1 Limited in its capacity as payer.
Retention release
Under the construction contracts, retention will follow the payment application process.
Retention release stages
Depending on the nature of the project, half on completion and half on the end of defects correction period.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 5.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days
- Dispute resolution process
In the event of a disputed invoice, HS1 will serve a notice of intention to withhold payment of the disputed amount before the date payment is due. The notice shall specify the amount proposed to be withheld and the grounds for withholding payment. If such a notice has been served, HS1 will pay the undisputed amount pending resolution of the disputed amount which will be discussed with the relevant HS1 contract lead.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 24.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 11.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay12.0% 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
HS1 LIMITED
LEI 213800FADTCJFWJ79G11 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 2 April 1998
- Initial LEI registration
- 12 February 2014
- LEI last updated
- 23 December 2025
- Next renewal
- 19 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 5TH FLOOR, KINGS PLACE, 90 YORK WAY, LONDON, GB-LND, N1 9AG, GB
- Headquarters address
- 5TH FLOOR, KINGS PLACE, 90 YORK WAY, LONDON, GB-LND, N1 9AG, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- HS1 LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- BETJEMAN HOLDINGS JVCO LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 22 July 2026
- Sectors
- Transportation, logistics, and storage
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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 24 July 2026
Earlier linked statements (1)
- HS1 LIMITED31 March 2020
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
HS1 Limited
Registration Z7965671
- Registered from
- 11 June 2003
- Current end date
- 10 June 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
ST PANCRAS INTERNATIONAL
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 9,32,33,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 January 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 January 2022
St.Pancras INTERNATIONAL
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 35,36,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 18 November 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 November 2018
StP
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 35,36,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 7 November 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 November 2018
ST PANCRAS INTERNATIONAL
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 35,36,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 7 November 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 November 2018
HIGH SPEED S1
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 3 May 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 May 2027
HIGH SPEED S1
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 3 May 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 3 May 2027
HIGH SPEED S1
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 10 November 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 November 2026
HIGH SPEED 1
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 10 November 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 November 2026
HS ONE
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 10 November 2006
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 November 2026
EBBSFLEET INTERNATIONAL STATION
Owner HS1 Limited · classes 36,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 9 May 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 May 2027
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Betjeman Holdings Limited
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- English
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- England
- Registration number
- 10852384
- Notified
- 6 September 2017
Helix Acquisition Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 07428859
- Notified
- 10 October 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
09 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.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Insurance Broker Services
HS1 LIMITED (trading as London St. Pancras Highspeed) · updated 16 June 2026
- Tender value
- £45,535,714
- Awards
- 1
Advisory & Execution Services - for financing & raising debt for strategic projects
HS1 LIMITED (trading as London St. Pancras Highspeed) · updated 23 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Ballast Cleaning Programme - Technical Support - CALL FOR COMPETITION
HS1 LIMITED (trading as London St. Pancras Highspeed) · updated 3 March 2025
- Tender value
- £1,000,000
- Awards
- 0
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 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.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 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
3 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.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 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: UNION RAILWAYS (NORTH) LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
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.
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.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.