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West Midlands Trains Limited

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 14

  1. Timothy Joseph Martin Coffey 2024-2026 Director View profile
  2. Yoshinobu Nakajima 2024-2025 Director View profile
  3. Shinichi Ban 2023-2023 Director View profile
  4. Soichi Nishihara 2022-2024 Director View profile
  5. Ian Matthew Mcconnell 2022-2026 Director View profile
  6. Junji Kawasaki 2021-2021 Director View profile
  7. Yuichiroh Ieda 2020-2022 Director View profile
  8. David Andrew Kaye 2020-2023 Director View profile
  9. Takeshi Omori 2018-2021 Director View profile
  10. Jan Chaudhry 2018-2020 Director View profile
  11. David Stuart Lindsay 2018-2024 Director View profile
  12. Nobuaki Shimada 2018-2018 Director View profile
  13. Nobuyoshi Umezawa 2017-2020 Director View profile
  14. Julian Edwards 2015-2023 Director View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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Public contracts won

1 contract · £132,203 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

About

Incorporated
06/11/2015

Ownership

Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.

Group

  1. West Midlands Trains Limited is controlled by West Midlands Holdings Limited
    Evidence
    active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register
  2. West Midlands Holdings Limited is controlled by Transport UK Holdings Limited
    Evidence
    active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register
  3. Transport UK Holdings Limited is controlled by Transport UK Group Limited
    Evidence
    active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2023-02-28 · source: Companies House PSC register
  4. Transport UK Group Limited is controlled by Edward Grosvenor Walker
    Evidence
    ceased 25-50% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2021-10-06, ceased 2023-02-28 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by Edward Grosvenor Walker.

17 other companies in this group

Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.

Grants received

3 grants · £143,660 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Transport · £135,660
  • Department for Education · £8,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Transport £135,6602022-04-01
  • Department for Education £2,0002020-04-01
  • Department for Education £6,0002020-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

6 directors on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
10.7y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (6)

0
also govern a charity

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Transport 29Professional services 6Finance 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
09860466
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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