BLUEBELL RAILWAY PLC
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Shareholders' funds
£23,025,946
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the preservation and operation of the Bluebell Railway, historical locomotives, rolling stock and items of railway interest.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1985-11-27
- Employees
- 109 (2025 accounts · was 127 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Sheffield Park Station, Uckfield East, Sussex, TN22 3QL
- Postcode
- TN22 3QL
- Capital
- 8 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-06-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-29
- Next due by
- 2027-07-13
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49390 Other passenger land transport
Officers 9 current · 60 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by BLUEBELL RAILWAY PRESERVATION SOCIETY — since 2023-01-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6347999 (Tier 1), registered since 2002.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- bluebellrailway.co.uk
- Phone
- 044.627-150, 08074797-150, 084759-150
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| JORDANS 312 PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 1986-02-26 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 36 similar companies in TN
2nd largest employer among its local peers (109 staff).
2nd oldest of its local peers, trading since 1985.
No.1 of the largest other passenger land transport companies in Ashford →
Competitors Ashford
This company ranks 1 among other passenger land transport in Ashford.
The class of 1985
49%
of the 15,386 companies incorporated in 1985 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 15 titles
- Freehold
- 14
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2024-04-03
- Where
- West Sussex (13), East Sussex (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSX446368 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2024-04-03 | — |
| WSX365751 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2014-07-31 | — |
| WSX360449 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2013-11-07 | — |
| SX93185 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2011-02-21 | — |
| WSX303914 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2006-10-09 | — |
| ESX255941 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2003-06-23 | — |
| ESX255942 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2003-06-23 | — |
| WSX269258 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2002-12-19 | — |
| WSX255818 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2001-06-05 | — |
| SX90901 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2001-04-27 | — |
| SX94687 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2000-10-31 | — |
| WSX241578 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2000-05-08 | — |
| WSX235678 | West Sussex | Freehold | 1999-09-24 | — |
| WSX226171 | West Sussex | Freehold | 1998-11-30 | — |
| WSX328156 | West Sussex | Freehold | — | — |
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