UK SIC 2007 49311: Urban and suburban passenger railway transportation by underground, metro and similar systems

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 49.31 and NACE Rev. 2.1 49.12, 49.31, 49.34. ISIC Rev. 4: 4921.

UK SIC 2007 code 49311 is "Urban and suburban passenger railway transportation by underground, metro and similar systems". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 49.31, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Urban and suburban passenger land transport". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the NACE Rev. 2 class behind this code is split across 3 classes, so check the activity before you convert.

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	49311	Urban and suburban passenger railway transportation by underground, metro and similar systems
NACE Rev. 2	49.31	Urban and suburban passenger land transport
NACE Rev. 2.1	49.12	Other passenger rail transport
NACE Rev. 2.1	49.31	Scheduled passenger transport by road
NACE Rev. 2.1	49.34	Passenger transport by cableways and ski lifts
ISIC Rev. 4	4921

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - land transport of passengers by urban or suburban transport systems. This may include different modes of land transport, such as by motor bus, tramway, streetcar, trolley bus, underground and elevated railways etc. The transport is carried out on scheduled routes normally following a fixed time schedule, entailing the picking up and setting down of passengers at normally fixed stops.

What it excludes

This class excludes: - passenger transport by interurban railways, see 49.10

Other UK SIC codes in the same NACE class

49319 Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land…

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.