Rail Safety and Standards Board Limited
Registered name: RAIL SAFETY AND STANDARDS BOARD LIMITED
Rail Safety and Standards Board Limited made £58.8m revenue and £6.2m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Rail Safety and Standards Board Limited’s revenue grew 7% to £58.8m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £6.2m profit and 380 employees. The company is classified under “passenger rail transport, interurban” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London
- Age
- 23 yrs · since 2003
- Type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Key figures
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £52.1m | £55.2m | £58.8m |
| Cost of sales | −£50.3m | −£54.2m | −£54.7m |
| Operating profit | £1.8m | £1m | £4.1m |
| Profit before tax | £1.4m | £3.1m | £6.7m |
| Profit after tax | £1.3m | £2.4m | £6.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.3m | £2.4m | £6.2m |
| Employees (average) | 356 | 369 | 380 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 2.5% | 4.4% | 10.5% |
| Revenue per employee | £146k | £150k | £155k |
| Profit per employee | £3.6k | £6.5k | £16.2k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲6% | ▲6.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲85.6% | ▲155.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.6% | ▲3% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Nov 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 10.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £155k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £16.2k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
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
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 380
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Subsidiaries (1)
- Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis Service LimitedRev. £1.9m · Profit £522k
Minority corporate shareholders
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £6.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Nov 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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