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Top 25 Railway engineering firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 654 railway engineering firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 26,168 professional contacts across them, including 9,080 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers railway engineering firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest railway engineering firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11,800 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hitachi Rail is committed to driving a sustainable mobility transition and helping every passenger, customer and community enjoy more connected, seamless and sustainable transport.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 868 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Colas Rail is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of railway infrastructure services, we are award-winning specialists having constructed all forms of railways across Europe and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 767 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since entering the construction market in 1935, VolkerRail has become one of the UK’s leading multidisciplinary railway infrastructure contractors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 655 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EKFB brings together international, market leading technical expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 582 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our Rail Experts Have Transformed The Performance Of Britain’s Railway…They Can Help You Transform Yours Network Rail Consulting is the wholly owned international consultancy arm…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 577 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With regional offices across England and Scotland, Story is highly respected nationally for providing award-winning rail, plant and construction solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “QTS is one of the country’s leading railways contractors, founded by MD, Alan McLeish.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPL Powerlines UK & I is a leading multi-disciplinary infrastructure specialist, offering end-to-end delivery across both rail and energy sectors with capabilities that set us…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bridgeway Consulting Ltd is one of the leading civil engineering contractors and HSQE specialists in the UK today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1979, Dyer & Butler is a multi-disciplined engineering services specialist focused on transport infrastructure including airports, rail and underground.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MPB Structures Limited is a family owned infrastructure and UK top 10 Concrete Frame Contractor with specialities in earthworks, drainage, substructure, reinforced concrete works…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cleshar delivers multidisciplinary services to the rail infrastructure sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialist Groundwork, Civil Engineering, RC Frames, Architectural Concrete, Rail & Aviation subcontractor based in West London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RSS Infrastructure (RSSI) is an award-winning multi-disciplinary service provider for the rail, construction and utilities sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Ontrak Recruitment and Training Ontrak Recruitment and Training is a leading temporary staffing agency dedicated to the dynamic railway industry in the United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rendel celebrated its 185th Anniversary in 2024, making us one of the oldest civil and structural engineering companies in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TES Ltd is a long established, highly regarded contractor to the rail industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Trackwork Ltd is a specialist rail infrastructure engineering company providing the following services & products: • Track renewals, remodelling, installation & maintenance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Walker Construction we attribute our success to more than just proven expertise and experience – but also to the enthusiasm of our team's.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WELCOME TO XRAIL Drawing on years of experience within major rail operators across all levels, we offer a higher quality precision engineering service to tackle the most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crouch Waterfall is an established firm of Civil, Structural and Geotechnical Consulting Engineers with extensive experience of Railways, Buildings, Roads, Bridges and Waterways.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mechanical, Electrical, Design and Construction Services Since 1977, Picow Engineering has been delivering a cost-effective engineering service to a growing number of blue chip…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the only specialist portable rail plant provider in the UK, Torrent Trackside has a unique understanding of the needs and challenges of the rail industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AEGIS is a member of the IKOS Group, a global consultancy business with its Headquarters in Paris, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: railway engineering firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names railway engineering firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of railway engineering firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name railway engineering firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Railway engineering firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 654 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among railway engineering firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “railway engineering firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names railway engineering firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among railway engineering firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,080 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names railway engineering firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many railway engineering firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 654 railway engineering firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Hitachi Rail, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most railway engineering firms?
London leads with 89 headquartered companies, followed by Derby (23) and Birmingham (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,080 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 654 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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