Southern Locomotives Hire Limited
Registered name: SOUTHERN LOCOMOTIVES HIRE LIMITED
Part of Southern Locomotives Limited groupSouthern Locomotives Hire Limited does not publish its revenue or profit. Its accounts to 31 Jan 2025 show net assets of £10k.
Southern Locomotives Hire 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 2025 showed net assets of £10k and 0 employees. The company is classified under “renting and leasing of other machinery, equipment and tangible goods” and is based in Broadstairs; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Broadstairs, South East
- Age
- 10 yrs · since 2015
- 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
Southern Locomotives Hire Limited’s accounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025 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 profit & loss account — 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
- 0
- Net assets
- £10k
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Jan 2022 | 31 Jan 2023 | 31 Jan 2024 | 31 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | No profit & loss | No profit & loss | No profit & loss | No profit & loss |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | — | — | — | — |
| Profit (best available) | — | — | — | — |
| Employees (average) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | — | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £23.4k | £11.2k | £18.1k | £28.1k |
| Net assets | £5.1k | £6.5k | £8.2k | £10k |
| Current assets | £28.9k | £54.9k | £31.1k | £52.3k |
| Debtors | £0 | £42.8k | £12k | £9.6k |
| Deferred income | £13 | £0 | £0 | £4.5k |
| Source | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Oct 2023 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Oct 2024 | FilletedAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
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
- ▲21%
- Now £10k
- Cash at bank
- ▲55%
- Now £28.1k
- Headcount
- —
- Now 0
- Deferred income
- —
- Now £4.5k
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
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
- Southern Locomotives Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Southern Locomotives Hire Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (2)
- Mainline Operations LimitedFigures not disclosed
- Southern Locomotives Engineering LimitedFigures not disclosed
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FilletedAccounts for the year to 31 Jan 2025, from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.