Railpool

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Railpool Bidco GmbH Co. KG

logo
legal form GmbH
founding July 2008
Seat Graefelfing , Germany
management Torsten Lehnert,
Thorsten Priebe
Number of employees 41
sales EUR 75.5 million (2016)
Branch Railway leasing
Website www.railpool.eu

Railpool , based in Munich, is a leasing company for locomotives and rail vehicles for freight and passenger transport that is active in 14 European countries.

background

Railpool is mainly active in the field of short to medium-term rental of locomotives (so-called operating leases ) - the company offers so-called full service packages with additional services such as maintenance, repair, provision of replacement vehicles in the event of failure, etc. Railpool was founded in 2008 by KfW IPEX-Bank and HSH Nordbank , each of which was 50% shareholders. In May 2012 the shareholders announced that they wanted to sell Railpool; In May 2014 it was announced that the private equity investor Oaktree had taken over 100% of the shares.

Since the purchase by Oaktree, Railpool Bidco GmbH Co. KG has been the highest group holding company in Germany; the operative business is carried out by Railpool GmbH.

vehicles

Railpool has a fleet of over 400 electric locomotives. The company leases modern electric locomotives of the 185 series (Bombardier Traxx F140 AC2) , 186 (Traxx F140 MS) and the 193 series (Siemens Vectron) . Railpool was Vectron's first customer ; after these were ordered from the manufacturer Siemens at the end of 2010, the first locomotives were delivered in November 2012. The leasing company is also the first and, with 30 locomotives, the largest buyer of the 187 series (Traxx 3) , which are also in the vehicle fleet. Another 20 locomotives of this series worth 74 million euros are to be delivered in the second half of 2019. Railpool thus also owns the largest Bombardier fleet: a total of 217 locomotives belong to the Bombardier Traxx family . Early 2017 bought Rail pool along with Toshiba of DB Cargo 130 locomotives of the series 151 and 155 from. The locomotives were produced from 1972 to 1978 (series 151) and 1977–1984 (155). Due to the outdated technology, DB Cargo no longer wanted to own these locomotives. For this reason, DB Cargo rented 100 locomotives back from Railpool. Maintenance and servicing will continue to be handled by Deutsche Bahn. Railpool leases the remaining 30 locomotives of the 151 and 155 series to other railway companies. By 2018, 900 million euros had been put into the fleet of 400 electric locomotives.

The Railpool fleet can be recognized quickly by its color. All locomotives, with the exception of the purchased locomotives of the class 151 and 155, run in a silver color dress with a blue banner on each side of the vehicle. The series 151 and 155 run in the typical traffic red color used by Deutsche Bahn with stripes in daylight gray. Since the purchased locomotives are no longer the property of Deutsche Bahn, only the DB logo has been removed. In September 2018, the first class 155 locomotive (155 138-1) was repainted in the typical Railpool color scheme.

Traxx MS2E (BR 186) at Railpool
Country equipment number numbering
D / A / B / NL 23 186 181-183, 187, 292-297, 421-428, 455-459
D / A / B / NL + CZ / SK 2 186 189, 191
D / A / B / NL + CZ / SK / HU 3 186 298-300
D / A / CH / I / NL 11 186 001-010, 251
D / A / CH / I / B / NL 34 186 256-259, 445-454, 491-510 *
D / A / I 9 186 281-288, 290
D / A / PL 11 186 141, 143, 145-147, 271-276
D / A / PL + NL + CZ / SK / HU 10 186 429-438
D / B / F 4th 186 252-255
* in delivery by the end of 2019
Traxx AC3 (BR 187) at Railpool
Country equipment number numbering
Germany + Austria + Switzerland 9 187 001-009
Germany + Austria + Hungary + Romania 21st 187 300–313, 315–316, 340–344 (340–344 vsl. 2019)
Sweden + Norway 5 187 400-404

  • The class 187 005 from Railpool in Basel Bad Bf.

  • A Railpool locomotive in use for Lineas.

  • The class 193 803 parked in Hamburg Harburg.

  • Two Railpool series 186 locomotives in use for Retrac.

  • The series 151 088 from Railpool in use for DB Cargo.

Railpool enables customers with the above fleet to work in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. In the area of local rail passenger transport , Railpool also rents 45 Bombardier Twindexx double-decker cars to the Danish state railways DSB and 8 electric multiple units of the Stadler GTW type to Transdev in the Netherlands.

Railpool passenger car

literature

  • Christian Auerweck: To lease locomotives . In: Eisenbahn Modellbahn Magazin . No. 2 , 2013, p. 29-31 .

Web links

Commons : Railpool  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint
  2. ↑ a b Consolidated financial statements of Railpool Bidco GmbH & Co. KG; Retrieved from Unternehmensregister.de on September 19, 2019
  3. ↑ HSH Nordbank and KfW IPEX-Bank start sales process for shares in Railpool. (No longer available online.) May 29, 2012, archived from the original on May 13, 2014 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Change of ownership at Railpool. Press release. Railpool, May 12, 2014, accessed May 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Via Railpool. Railpool, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  6. ^ Railpool locomotive fleet. Railpool, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  7. ↑ 42 locomotives for Railpool - first Vectron order. (PDF; 88 kB) Publication in Eisenbahn-Revue 2/2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 .
  8. ↑ a b Bombardier receives new orders. In: Financial News. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ 10 years of Railpool. Railpool, accessed November 4, 2018 .
  10. ^ Railpool acquires 200 locomotives from DB Cargo. In: RailcolorNews. Accessed November 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ About the company. In: Railpool. Retrieved November 4, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Railpool orders five more locomotives. (No longer available online.) In: Railcolornews. Formerly in the original ; accessed on November 28, 2018 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / railcolornews.com
  13. ↑ Country packages. Railpool, accessed November 5, 2018 .