Angel Trains
| Angel Trains Limited
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| legal form | Limited Company |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | London , UK |
| management | David Jordan, Alan Lowe, Matthew Prosser, Kevin Tribley |
| Number of employees | 122 |
| sales | 421 100 000 GBP approximately 470.7 million EUR |
| Branch | leasing |
| Website | www.angeltrains.co.uk |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Angel Trains Limited is a company incorporated in 1994 British leasing company for rail vehicles , based in London .
history
In the course of the privatization of British Rail in 1994 the entire rolling stock of the BR was sold to so-called ROSCOs (for Rolling Stock Operating Companies ), which rent their property to the railway operating companies. Angel Trains was founded for this purpose and is one of the three largest of these companies alongside Porterbrook and HSBC Rail (now Eversholt). Angel Trains has been 100% owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) since 1997 . In 2008 Angel Trains was sold to a consortium made up of Babcock & Brown European Infrastructure Fund , Babcock & Brown Public Partnerships , AMP Capital , Deutsche Bank and the like. a. for 3.5 billion British pounds . As a result, the company was split into a British ( Angel Trains Limited ) and an international branch ( Angel Trains International ). On January 1st, 2010 Angel Trains International was renamed Alpha Trains and today operates independently in the market.
Corporate structure
In addition to its headquarters in London, Angel Trains has a branch in Derby (Derbyshire) . Through its subsidiary The Great Rolling Stock Company Ltd. financing runs on long-term bonds .
Until 2010, it owned an international branch that operated the business in continental Europe under the names Angel Trains Europe and Angel Trains Cargo . This part of the company has been independent under the name Alpha Trains since then .
Rolling stock
In December 2018, Angel Trains said it owned 3,895 units in a broad portfolio of regional trains, long-distance trains and locomotives. These include vehicles from the British series 142, 153, 158, 175, 314, 390 , 465, 466 and 507.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Full accounts made up to 31 December 2018 , accessed on 16 February 2020
- ^ Sean Farrell: RBS sells rolling stock company to Babcock & Brown for £ 3.5bn. The Independent, June 14, 2008, accessed February 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Angel Trains completes debt refinancing. Railway Gazette International, April 27, 2011, accessed February 14, 2012 .