Swanage Railway Company Limited
Registered name: SWANAGE RAILWAY COMPANY LIMITED
Part of The Swanage Railway Trust groupSwanage Railway Company Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Jan 2026 show net assets of £1.7m and 36 employees.
Swanage Railway Company Limited did not publish its revenue or profit — small companies aren’t required to file a profit & loss account. Its accounts for the year to 31 Jan 2026 showed net assets of £1.7m and 36 employees. The company is classified under “other passenger land transport” and is based in Dorset; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dorset, South West
- Age
- 47 yrs · since 1979
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Revenue not disclosed
Swanage Railway Company Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Jan 2026 contain a balance sheet but no profit & loss account, so its revenue and profit are not public. UK small and micro-entity companies are not required to publish a P&L — this is normal and says nothing about how the business is performing.
We never estimate revenue. Below you’ll find the balance-sheet figures that were filed — useful as indirect signals of momentum, but they are not revenue or profit.
- Employees
- 36
- Net assets
- £1.7m
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 | 31 Jan 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No P&L | No P&L | No P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 35 | 32 | 36 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | ▼8.6% | ▲12.5% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £79.7k | £338k | £349k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1.5m | £1.7m |
| Fixed assets | £4.1m | £4.2m | £4.1m |
| Current assets | £248k | £507k | £514k |
| Debtors | £45.8k | £2.8k | £12k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2026 |
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▲17%
- Now £1.7m
- Cash at bank
- ▲3%
- Now £349k
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 36
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- ▼1%
- Now £4.1m
Group structure
Ownership chain
- The Swanage Railway Trustultimate parent75–100%
- Swanage Railway Company Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2026, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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