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Company description
ARRIVA RAIL LONDON LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 22 February 2001; registered for 25 years; registered office reported in PARK SUNDERLAND, TYNE & WEAR. Its primary declared activity is 70100 · Activities of head offices.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record. 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
- ARRIVA RAIL LONDON LIMITED
- Company number
- 04165861
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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
2 February 2027Last statement made up to
22 February 2026Next statement due
8 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -69.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 33.6%
- Men receiving bonus
- 26.9%
- Women in top quartile
- 13.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 10.5%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 24.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 29.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 5000 to 19,99944.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499937.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499938.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499940.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499937.7% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99941.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99942.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499944.0% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 11 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- 28 days
- 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
- £97,311,541
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £3,617,676
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,097,011
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,714,687
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 12.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 3.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 28 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Retention is applied based on inherent risk perceived within the contract
Retention parity policy
Dependent on each project. Sometimes no retention is held back by the client, this is for the company to manage. Sometimes the client holds back retention in line with the supplier's retention
Retention release
Generally 5% of the project. 2.5% released on completion and 2.5% released when defects have been completed.
Retention release stages
Generally 5% of the project. 2.5% released on completion and 2.5% released when defects have been completed.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 5.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 100.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 5.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
It is the company’s policy to agree appropriate terms of payment with suppliers for each transaction or series of transactions, and to abide by those terms based on the timely submission of valid invoices. The company’s standard payment terms is 28 days from date of invoice, however, on some occasions variations to these standard payment terms may be agreed.
- Dispute resolution process
The company seeks to deal with suppliers of all sizes in a fair and reasonable manner. The operating company seek to respond and address supplier queries as quickly as possible. In the event that a dispute cannot be resolved by the central Accounts Payable team, it would escalated in the first instance to Senior Management or Procurement team for resolution.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 36.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay24.0% 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
ARRIVA RAIL LONDON LIMITED
LEI 529900K992OQ0VT99C16 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 22 February 2001
- Initial LEI registration
- 17 February 2017
- LEI last updated
- 17 February 2025
- Next renewal
- 17 February 2025
- Managing LOU
- 5299000J2N45DDNE4Y28
- Legal address
- 1 Admiral Way, Park Sunderland, GB-SND, SR3 3XP, GB
- Headquarters address
- 1 Admiral Way, Park Sunderland, GB-SND, SR3 3XP, GB
GLEIF Level 2 relationships
IS DIRECTLY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 529900K992OQ0VT99C16 to LEI 52990063S23N13HU4E98
- Initial registration
- 8 January 2018
- Last updated
- 17 February 2025
- Next renewal
- 17 February 2025
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2018-01-03T00:00:00+01:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2023-03-07T00:00:00+01:00; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
IS ULTIMATELY CONSOLIDATED BY
From LEI 529900K992OQ0VT99C16 to LEI 52990063S23N13HU4E98
- Initial registration
- 8 January 2018
- Last updated
- 17 February 2025
- Next renewal
- 17 February 2025
- Validation sources
- FULLY_CORROBORATED
- Validation documents
- ACCOUNTS_FILING
- Relationship periods
- Start: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+01:00; End: 2022-12-31T00:00:00+01:00; Type: ACCOUNTING_PERIOD; Start: 2018-01-03T00:00:00+01:00; Type: RELATIONSHIP_PERIOD; Start: 2023-03-07T00:00:00+01:00; Type: DOCUMENT_FILING_PERIOD
- Validation reference
- Not supplied
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06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- ARRIVA RAIL LONDON LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- ARRIVA LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 18 March 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
Not reported as covered
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
- 5 May 2026
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07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Arriva Rail London Limited
Registration ZA211004
- Registered from
- 12 October 2016
- Current end date
- 11 October 2026
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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Arriva Uk Trains Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 3166214
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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.
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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.
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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.
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12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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.
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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
0 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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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: ARRIVA TRAINS BIDCO LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: ARRIVA RAIL NORTH LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: ARRIVA ABBEY LINE LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: ARRIVA NORTHERN LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 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.
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.