Signature Rail Limited
Registered name: SIGNATURE RAIL LIMITED
Part of Modaxo Europe A/S groupSignature Rail Limited made £6.5m revenue and £2.1m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2024. read from filing text
Signature Rail Limited’s revenue grew 11% to £6.5m in the year to 31 Dec 2024, with £2.1m profit and 33 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Chippenham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Chippenham, South West
- Age
- 36 yrs · since 1990
- 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
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Dec 2022 | 31 Dec 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.3m | £5.8m | £6.5m |
| Cost of sales | £2.8m | £3.3m | £3.7m |
| Gross profit | £2.5m | £2.5m | £2.8m |
| Operating profit | £1.7m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Profit before tax | £2.5m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Profit (best available) | £2.5m | £2m | £2.1m |
| Staff costs | £2.1m | £2.6m | £2.6m |
| Employees (average) | 31 | 32 | 33 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 46.6% | 34.2% | 32.1% |
| Gross margin | 47.1% | 43.6% | 43.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £170k | £182k | £196k |
| Profit per employee | £79.2k | £62.4k | £63.1k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲10.7% | ▲11% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼18.6% | ▲4.2% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.2% | ▲3.1% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £12.3k | £13.2k | £10.6k |
| Net assets | £1.2m | £1m | £362k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 32.1%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 43.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £196k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £63.1k
- 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
- ▼65%
- Now £362k
- Cash at bank
- ▼20%
- Now £10.6k
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 33
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Modaxo Europe A/S (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Signature Rail Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (1)
- TTG Technology (Europe) LimitedRev. £4.2m · Profit £737k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 31 Dec 2024 (profit £2.1m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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