GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY PLC
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Shareholders' funds
£5,647,820
Balance sheet as at 2024-01-31
Overview
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1976-05-06
- Employees
- 107 (2024 accounts · was 103 in 2023)
- Registered office
- Great Central Station, Great Central Road, Loughborough, Leics., LE11 1RW
- Postcode
- LE11 1RW
- Capital
- 4,436,218 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-02-01
- Next due by
- 2027-07-31
- Financial year end
- 31 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-10-07
- Next due by
- 2026-10-21
Nature of business (SIC)
- 49100 Passenger rail transport, interurban
Officers 10 current · 54 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by The David Clarke Railway Trust (01104839) — since 2016-04-06
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NATIONAL RAIL TESTING LTD Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9655393 (Tier 2), registered since 2006.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY (1976) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | 1996-03-13 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,415 similar companies in LE — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (107 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1976.
The class of 1976
51%
of the 7,066 companies incorporated in 1976 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 6 titles
- Leasehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2020-01-21
- Price paid, where recorded
- £95,000
- Where
- Leicestershire (6)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT358455 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2020-01-21 | £95,000 |
| LT495049 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2017-10-03 | — |
| LT492491 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2017-07-05 | — |
| LT491176 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2017-05-08 | — |
| LT377184 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2015-10-21 | — |
| LT467030 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2015-02-04 | — |
For addresses and the authoritative register entry, use HM Land Registry's official search (£3 per title).
Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Dataset as at 2026-08.