CK Rail Solutions Ltd
Registered name: CK RAIL SOLUTIONS LTD
Part of CK Eot Trustee Limited groupCK Rail Solutions Ltd made £26m revenue and a £1.2m loss in the year to 31 Jul 2025. read from filing text
CK Rail Solutions Ltd’s revenue grew 59% to £26m in the year to 31 Jul 2025, with a loss of £1.2m and 65 employees. The company is classified under “passenger rail transport, interurban” and is based in Chesterfield; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chesterfield, Yorkshire and The Humber
- Age
- 13 yrs · since 2012
- 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. From the filing: “As at 31 July 2025, the company's immediate parent was C King Holdings Ltd, a company which is incorporated in the UK.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £18.2m | £16.3m | £26m |
| Cost of sales | £7.8m | £7.8m | £18.9m |
| Gross profit | £10.4m | £8.5m | £7m |
| Operating profit | £3.6m | £332k | −£1.8m |
| Profit before tax | £3.6m | £456k | −£1.9m |
| Profit after tax | £3.4m | £489k | −£1.2m |
| Profit (best available) | £3.4m | £489k | −£1.2m |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £3.1m | £4.9m |
| Employees (average) | 26 | 44 | 65 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 18.6% | 3% | −4.7% |
| Gross margin | 57.3% | 52.3% | 27.2% |
| Revenue per employee | £700k | £370k | £399k |
| Profit per employee | £131k | £11.1k | −£18.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▼10.5% | ▲59.3% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼85.6% | ▼347.1% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲69.2% | ▲47.7% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £554k | £641k | £1.1m |
| Net assets | £16.6m | £16m | £8.3m |
| Fixed assets | £7.4m | £6.9m | £8.1m |
| Current assets | £12.8m | £12.4m | £8.7m |
| Debtors | £298k | £765k | £295k |
| Deferred income | — | £425k | £3.1m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- −4.7%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 27.2%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £399k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- −£18.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 31.2%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 11.8%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 1.1%
- 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
- ▼48%
- Now £8.3m
- Cash at bank
- ▲72%
- Now £1.1m
- Headcount
- ▲48%
- Now 65
- Deferred income
- ▲623%
- Now £3.1m
- Fixed assets
- ▲18%
- Now £8.1m
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- CK Eot Trustee Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- C King Holdings Ltd75–100%
- CK Rail Solutions Ltdthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- T.G. Beighton LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (4)
- CK Plant LtdFigures not disclosed
- CK Resource Solutions LtdFigures not disclosed
- Elmec Solutions LimitedFigures not disclosed
- TGB Mechanical and Electrical LtdFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Jul 2025 (profit −£1.2m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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