Rolling stock company

Company owning railway engines and carriages

A rolling stock company (ROSCO) or rolling stock leasing company owns and maintains railway engines and carriages which are leased to train operating companies who operate the trains.

Rolling stock companies have been criticized as rentier capitalist, in that they add little value to the end product versus direct ownership of the trains themselves, and extract large profits from what were once in many cases government owned and government-financed assets.[1]

Africa

  • Sheltam Grindrod[2]
  • Swifambo Rail Leasing[3]

Australia

Europe

  • Alpha Trains
  • Macquarie European Rail
  • Transitio

United Kingdom

  • Angel Trains
  • Beacon Rail
  • Europhoenix
  • Eversholt Rail Group
  • Porterbrook
  • Rock Rail

United States

References

  1. ^ Dennis, Gareth (2022). "Britain's privatised railways". IPPR Progressive Review. 29 (3–4): 234–243 – via Wiley Online Library.
  2. ^ Railways Africa 2007/6 p. 6
  3. ^ "rail mobility at its best". Swifambo Holdings. 18 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 May 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2014.


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