BRODIE ENGINEERING LIMITED
Company number SC163999 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Brodie Engineering Limited presents a mixed credit profile requiring conditional approval with enhanced monitoring. The company benefits from long market presence in the stable UK rail sector and recent employee growth suggesting business expansion, but its balance sheet shows significant strain with a marginal 1.06x current ratio, a 139% surge in debtors, and net assets that have declined 66% from their FY2021 peak before stabilising this year. The working capital position is precarious, and the opacity around intercompany arrangements with parent Brodie Holdings Ltd adds uncertainty to standalone creditworthiness. Any facility should be conditioned on obtaining debtor aging reports, creditor composition analysis, and a group support letter, with covenants requiring minimum current ratio of 1.20x and net assets of £1.0M.
Shareholders' funds
£1,511,761
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of providing design, overhaul, manufacture, construction and general engineering solutions primarily to the railway industry.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1996-03-08
- Employees
- 151 (2026 accounts · was 96 in 2025)
- Registered office
- 23 Caledonia Works, West Langlands Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, KA1 2PY
- Postcode
- KA1 2PY
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-17
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
Nature of business (SIC)
- 33170 Repair and maintenance of other transport equipment not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 7 resigned
Contact details
- Website
- brodieengineering.co.uk
- Phone
- 01563546281, 01563546280
Brodie Engineering offer a comprehensive range of maintenance, overhaul and repair services to the UK rail sector
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| PREMIER CONSULTANTS LIMITED | 2003-01-06 |
| G.B.H. ENGINEERING LIMITED | 1997-09-02 |
Previous registered addresses 6
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 4 MACKINTOSH PLACE, SOUTH NEWMOOR IND ESTATE, IRVINE, AYRSHIRE, KA11 4JT, UNITED KINGDOM | 2010-11-03 |
| 32A HAMILTON STREET, SALTCOATS, KA21 5DS | 2010-07-22 |
| 79 CHARLES STREET, SPRINGBURN, GLASGOW G21 2PS | 2005-12-07 |
| 223 AYR ROAD, NEWTON MEARNS, GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE G77 6AH | 2005-01-23 |
| JOHN A LOVE & CO CA, 3 BERESFORD COURT, BERESFORD LANE, AYR KA7 2DW | 1999-12-01 |
| 30 HARVEY GARDENS, ARDROSSAN, AYRSHIRE, KA22 8LG | 1996-11-29 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 14 similar companies in KA
The largest employer among its local peers (151 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 1996.
Competitors Ayr
This company ranks 1 among repair and maintenance of other transport equipment not elsewhere classified in Ayr.
The class of 1996
45%
of the 41,233 companies incorporated in 1996 are still active today; 52% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.