Metroline Limited
Registered name: METROLINE LIMITED
Part of Braddell Limited groupMetroline Limited made £444m revenue and £6m profit in the year to 31 Dec 2025.
Metroline Limited’s revenue grew 10% to £444m in the year to 31 Dec 2025, with £6m profit and 4,725 employees. The company is classified under “other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar)” and is based in London; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- London, London
- Age
- 33 yrs · since 1993
- 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 2023 | 31 Dec 2024 | 31 Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £351m | £405m | £444m |
| Cost of sales | −£345m | −£366m | −£398m |
| Gross profit | £6.2m | £39.3m | £46.1m |
| Operating profit | −£19.8m | £5.8m | £11m |
| Profit before tax | −£21.7m | £2.4m | £8.9m |
| Profit after tax | −£13.5m | £552k | £6m |
| Profit (best available) | −£13.5m | £552k | £6m |
| Employees (average) | 4,407 | 4,551 | 4,725 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | −3.9% | 0.1% | 1.4% |
| Gross margin | 1.8% | 9.7% | 10.4% |
| Revenue per employee | £79.6k | £89k | £94k |
| Profit per employee | −£3.1k | £121 | £1.3k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲15.5% | ▲9.7% |
| Profit growth | — | — | ▲990.6% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲3.3% | ▲3.8% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Source | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2025 | Accounts · bulk data Sep 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 1.4%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 10.4%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £94k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £1.3k
- 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
- ▲4%
- Now 4,725
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Braddell Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Metroline Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Subsidiaries (3)
- Metroline Pension Scheme Trustees LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metroline Travel LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metroline West LimitedFigures not disclosed
Sister companies (7)
- New Adventure Travel LimitedRev. £14.3m · Profit −£39k
- Metroline Liverpool LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metroline Manchester LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metroline West Midlands LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Metroline West Yorkshire LimitedFigures not disclosed
- P. & J. Ellis LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Scottish Citylink Coaches LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Dec 2025 (profit £6m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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