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How long does Grand Central Railway Company Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 03979826 · Transport & storage · 13 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

36days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

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On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
25 Apr 2000
Registered office
1 ADMIRAL WAY, SUNDERLAND, SR3 3XP
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 60 days. Reported average: 36.

Stated terms60d
-24 days
Reported avg36d

At a glance

The key figures

60d
their stated terms
29%
invoices paid outside terms
-8d
faster over the window
±6d
variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 53% of the 248 large companies reporting in transport & storage.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 60d
44
50
47
39
35
36
H2 2021H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 68% 31–60 days 25% 61+ days 7%

The read · computed from their figures

Grand Central Railway Company Limited has filed 13 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 36 days against stated terms of 60 days.

The direction is faster: from 44 to 36 days over the window — about 8 days faster.

In the latest period 29% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 7% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

1% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

It is the company’s policy to agree appropriate terms of payment with suppliers for each transaction or series of transactions, and to abide by those terms based on the timely submission of valid invoices. The company’s standard payment terms is 60 days from date of invoice, however, on some occasions variations to these standard payment terms may be agreed.

Dispute resolution

The company (as with the wider Arriva group of companies) seeks to deal with suppliers of all sizes in a fair and reasonable manner. The operating company seeks to respond and address supplier queries as quickly as possible. In the event that a dispute cannot be resolved by the central Arriva Accounts Payable team, it would be escalated in the first instance to the senior management of the operating company or procurement relationship manager for resolution.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20263629%7%30 Jul 2026
H2 20253530%7%29 Jan 2026
H1 20253932%10%30 Jul 2025
H2 20244733%16%28 Jan 2025
H1 20245041%13%26 Jul 2024
H2 20214432%10%26 Jan 2022
H1 20216345%24%26 Jul 2021
H2 20205948%24%26 Jan 2021
H1 20204344%13%22 Jul 2020
H2 20194033%10%28 Jan 2020
H1 20194133%10%19 Jul 2019
H2 20182638%4%23 Jan 2019
H1 20183052%12%16 Aug 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 8 days faster over the window (44 → 36 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 36, moving within about ±6 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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