01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Company number
- 05154485
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
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
3 January 2026Next statement due
17 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Firstgroup Plc
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Value Added Cloud Services
SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY LIMITED · updated 28 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
FRH - AWC Train Planning Software & Services Tender
FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 15 July 2026
- Tender value
- £1,443,154
- Awards
- 1
AWC - Class 80x Heavy Maintenance
FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED · updated 14 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
GWR - Class 387 Supply of LED Lights
FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED · updated 17 June 2026
- Tender value
- £450,000
- Awards
- 1
Estate Management
FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED · updated 5 May 2026
- Tender value
- £1,100,000
- Awards
- 1
First Avanti West Coast Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate Systems
FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 5 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Temporary Labour for GWR
FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED · updated 30 March 2026
- Tender value
- £1,263,653
- Awards
- 1
AWC Station & Accommodation Cleaning, Washroom Services, and Vegetation Management
FIRST TRENITALIA WEST COAST RAIL LIMITED · updated 25 March 2026
- Tender value
- £25,500,000
- Awards
- 1
Hazardous and Confidential Waste Collection Services
FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED · updated 11 March 2026
- Tender value
- £1,140,000
- Awards
- 1
RFI - TRAIN OPERATIONS OPTIMISATION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SUITE
FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED · updated 9 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Supply and Delivery of Fuel to Rail and Bus Depots
FIRST GREATER WESTERN LIMITED · updated 3 March 2026
- Tender value
- £467,908,000
- Awards
- 1
First Greater Western Limited Contract for Maintenance and Support of Automatic Passenger Gate Systems
First Rail Holdings Limited on behalf of First Greater Western Limited · updated 27 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Provision of Services relating to Non-hazardous waste removal and waste segregation services
FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 4 September 2025
- Tender value
- £10,490,626
- Awards
- 3
Property Projects Consultancy Framework
FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 6 August 2025
- Tender value
- £7,200,000
- Awards
- 27
GWR - Provision of Maintenance & Support for Ticket Vending Machines
FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 22 May 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
First Group Mobile Telephony, Services and Devices
FIRSTGROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 12 February 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
First Group IT Hardware Services
FIRSTGROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 7 February 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
First Group Service Desk Managed Service Procurement Tender
FIRSTGROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 4 December 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Provision of FM Services (Mechanical, Electrical and Building Fabric)
First Greater Western Limited · updated 12 November 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
First Rail Travel Disruption Information Services
FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED · updated 28 October 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Showing the first 20 of 45 linked procurement processes.
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.
08 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.
09 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Activities of head offices
10 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
45 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.
11 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
12 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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.