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Company description
SCOTRAIL TRAINS LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 6 August 2007; registered for 19 years; registered office reported in GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 49100 · Passenger rail transport, interurban.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 1 procurement 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.
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
- SCOTRAIL TRAINS LIMITED
- Company number
- SC328826
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 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
6 August 2026Next statement due
20 August 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 April 2026 – 30 September 2026
- Filed
- 29 October 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- The business follows the guidance set out in the Scottish Public Finance Manual.
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £510,190,110
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £27,416,180
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £3,441,915
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £296,042,075
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 4.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
ScotRail Trains aims to settle all valid invoices within as soon as possible and within 30 days.
Retention circumstances
Retention clauses are used in construction contracts to secure completion of works and correction of defects. They are typically applied where staged payments are made and are released on practical completion and after the defects liability period.
Retention release
Money is released when the contractual obligations have been fulfilled.
- 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
- 3.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days.
- Other payment-term information
The 'shortest standard payment terms' has been noted as 0 days, which equates to those suppliers with 'Immediate' payment terms.
- Dispute resolution process
The process for dispute resolution and complaints for qualifying contracts is set out in the terms and conditions for the good or services. A resolution is sought between the ordering manager (supported by the Procurement and Contracts team when required) and the supplier.
ScotRail Trains operates a No PO, No Pay policy meaning all invoices submitted for payment will quote a valid Purchase Order where the goods/services being purchased has been previously approved. As a result there are limited disputes arising from purchases.
ScotRail Trains works closely with suppliers when issues are identified to ensure invoices received are correct to allow prompt payment.
Earlier payment reports (6 shown)
- 13.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay19.0% 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.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Scotrail Trains Limited
Registration ZB317318
- Registered from
- 20 March 2022
- Current end date
- 19 March 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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Scottish Rail Holdings Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Uk Companies Register
- Registration number
- Sc548826
- Notified
- 17 May 2018
The company has not yet completed the steps to find its PSCs
- Notified
- 6 August 2016
- Ceased
- 16 August 2016
Scottish Ministers
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Legal authority
- Law Of Scotland
- Legal form
- Government Department
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 17 May 2018
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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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.
10 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.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 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
1 procurement process 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.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Confirmation statement due date: 2026-08-20 → 2027-08-20
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: SOLR1 LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: SOLR HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Company name
Previous name: SOLR1 LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House 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.