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West Somerset Railway Public Limited Company

Homepage West Somerset Railway | Vintage Steam Train Experience The company’s own description of itself, taken from its website.

Active 55 years old · 500th oldest of 4,506 · incorporated in the 1970s

Company number01010188
StatusActive
Incorporated05/05/1971
Accounts last made up to31/03/2025
Next accounts due30/09/2026
Accounts typeFULL
Charges outstanding4

Registered office

THE RAILWAY STATION, MINEHEAD, SOMERSET, TA24 5BG

Online

Website www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk

News and announcements on their own site

Social accounts Instagram, YouTube

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Filing history

This company has 381 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 06/10/2025. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 16/04/2026.

Filings: officer changes56
Filings: share capital14
Filings: accounts10
Filings: confirmation statements9
Filings: charges6
Filings: resolutions3

The most recent filings

Director appointed 08/09/2026
Director resigned 10/08/2026
Director resigned 14/07/2026
Confirmation statement 16/04/2026
Share capital change 15/04/2026
Charge registered or satisfied 20/10/2025
Accounts, full 06/10/2025
Confirmation statement 14/05/2025
Share capital change 13/05/2025
Accounts, full 10/10/2024

This is the list of documents filed, not their contents. A line saying accounts were filed records that they were filed and when; it says nothing about turnover, profit or assets, which are inside the documents themselves and are not published here. Read the filings on the Companies House record.

Who runs it

The register lists 6 current officers and 71 who have resigned.

FOUR FIFTY PARTNERSHIP LIMITED Corporate secretaryappointed 11/01/2019
Joy Rosalind Boswell Directorappointed 29/01/2021
Richard Granger Directorappointed 28/07/2026
Jonathan Jones-Pratt Directorappointed 13/09/2018
Malcolm David Smith Directorappointed 29/04/2024
Robin Jeremy Wichard Directorappointed 29/04/2024

Who controls it

The register shows no current person or entity with significant control for this company.

Charges

A charge is security a company gives a lender over its assets. This company has 7 registered charges, of which 4 are not yet recorded as satisfied.

A registered charge
West Somerset Railway Association
Fully satisfied, created 30/09/2020
A registered charge
Lloyds Bank PLC
Outstanding, created 20/08/2019
A registered charge
Lloyds Bank PLC
Outstanding, created 20/08/2019
A registered charge
Lloyds Bank PLC
Outstanding, created 18/12/2017
A registered charge
Lloyds Bank PLC
Outstanding, created 08/12/2017
Single debenture
Lloyds Bank PLC
Fully satisfied, created 28/03/1987
Debenture
Somerset County Council
Fully satisfied, created 31/10/1975

Officers, controllers and charges are as recorded on the Companies House register on 13/10/2026, and the register changes daily. Appearing here is not an allegation about anyone. Read the current record on the Companies House record.

What it does

This page is compiled from the public register. Companies House does not verify the information filed with it, so treat everything here as what the company reported rather than as established fact. For filings, officers and charges, see the official Companies House record.

Registered office

No other PLC on the register gives this postcode.

On the register

  • 500th oldest of 4,506 PLCs
  • One of the 1970s cohort
  • Not in liquidation or facing strike off

There are 4,506 PLCs in Britain, under a tenth of one per cent of the register. The whole count.

Register data as at 2026-09-01 Download the full register (CSV)