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Company description
TRANSPORT FOR WALES RAIL LTD is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 26 May 2020; registered for 6 years; registered office reported in PONTYPRIDD, WALES. Its primary declared activity is 49319 · Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar).
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 41 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
- TRANSPORT FOR WALES RAIL LTD
- Company number
- 12619906
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 22 total · 22 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
19 May 2026Next statement due
2 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -1.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- -1.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 27.8%
- Men receiving bonus
- 22.8%
- Women in top quartile
- 10.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 13.3%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 27.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 37.2%
Earlier reporting years (4)
- 1000 to 499914.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499916.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499919.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499921.2% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 22 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
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
- £246,720,270
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £29,566,004
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £50,486
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £11,384,818
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 8.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
It Is The Company's Policy To Agree Appropriate Payment Terms With Suppliers And To Honour Those Payment Terms Based On The Timely Receipt Of Valid Invoices. The Company's Standard Payment Terms Are 30 Days From Receipt Of Invoice.
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
The Company Seeks To Deal With All Suppliers In A Fair And Reasonable Manner, Aiming To Respond To And Address Queries As Quickly As Possible. In The Event That A Dispute Cannot Be Resolved By The Transport For Wales Rail Ltd Purchase Ledger Team, It Would Then Be Escalated To The Management Team Within The Finance Department. Please Note That Our Percentage Of Payments Not Made In The Reporting Period Due To A Dispute As Disclosed Above Includes Only Those Contracts Which Have Entered Into A Formal Contractual Dispute Process. A Common Reason For Invoices Being Paid Late Is Because Of Informal Queries Or Disagreements Regarding Amount Or Evidence To Support The Invoice - However We Are Unable To Include This In Our Reporting, As Our Finance System Does Not Record This Data.
Earlier payment reports (7 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay28.0% 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
TRANSPORT FOR WALES RAIL LTD
LEI 2549000BWESU8V9VCW36 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 26 May 2020
- Initial LEI registration
- 24 December 2020
- LEI last updated
- 25 September 2026
- Next renewal
- 24 October 2027
- Managing LOU
- 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12
- Other legal names
- WALES OPERATOR OF LAST RESORT LIMITED
- Legal address
- 3 Llys Cadwyn, Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 4TH, GB
- Headquarters address
- 3 Llys Cadwyn, Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 4TH, 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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Transport For Wales 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 Company Limited By Guarantee
- Place registered
- Uk Register Of Companies
- Registration number
- 09476013
- Notified
- 26 May 2020
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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Acquisition of Class 170 Rolling Stock Spare Parts
TRANSPORT UK EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED · updated 16 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Revenue Protection Back Office
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 21 September 2026
- Tender value
- £1,220,000
- Awards
- 1
Transport for Wales and Transport for Wales Rail – Public Transport Summit 2027
Transport for Wales (TFW) and Transport for Wales Rail (TfWRL) · updated 8 September 2026
- Tender value
- £250
- Awards
- 0
Ticket Vending Machines – Conversion, Upgrade and Continued Maintenance.
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 6 August 2026
- Tender value
- £9,300,000
- Awards
- 1
RISQS
RAIL SAFETY AND STANDARDS BOARD LIMITED · updated 17 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 5
Taxi Booking Management Service (Taxi Aggregator)
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 19 June 2026
- Tender value
- £17,400,000
- Awards
- 1
Security and Crowd Management Services
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 1 June 2026
- Tender value
- £32,500,000
- Awards
- 0
Control of Contractors Portal
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 1 June 2026
- Tender value
- £430,000
- Awards
- 0
Vehicle Service and Maintenance (Cars & Vans)
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 26 May 2026
- Tender value
- £1,275,000
- Awards
- 0
Digital Totem Help Points
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 26 May 2026
- Tender value
- £600,000
- Awards
- 0
Crowd Management Services
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 22 May 2026
- Tender value
- £4,000,000
- Awards
- 0
TFW0983.00 - Return to Base (RtB) Cycle Hire
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 19 February 2026
- Tender value
- £400,000
- Awards
- 1
MK4 OH2 (Overhaul 2) VMI (Vehicle Maintenance Instructions) Work and Bogie Overhaul
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 9 January 2026
- Tender value
- £15,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Mk4 OH2 Minus and Corrosion Repair
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 9 December 2025
- Tender value
- £7,500,000
- Awards
- 1
Car Park Management
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 9 December 2025
- Tender value
- £1,039,842
- Awards
- 0
Supply of Fuel
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 5 December 2025
- Tender value
- £8,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Security and Crowd Management Services
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 5 December 2025
- Tender value
- £4,000,000
- Awards
- 0
EPOS and CEW for On-Board Catering
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 5 December 2025
- Tender value
- £600,000
- Awards
- 0
Cycle Hire
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 5 December 2025
- Tender value
- £400,000
- Awards
- 0
Asset Management System
Transport for Wales Rail Limited (Utility Buyer) · updated 5 December 2025
- Tender value
- £665,000
- Awards
- 0
Showing the first 20 of 41 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.
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.
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.
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
41 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.
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
- Company name
Previous name: WALES OPERATOR OF LAST RESORT LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 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.
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.