Rolling stock company explained

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

• Rail First Asset Management

Europe

• Alpha Trains
• Macquarie European Rail
• Transitio

United Kingdom

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

United States

• Chicago Freight Car Leasing Company (CFCL)

Notes and References

1. Dennis . Gareth . Gareth Dennis . 2022 . Britain's privatised railways . IPPR Progressive Review . 29 . 3-4 . 234-243 . Wiley Online Library.
2. Railways Africa 2007/6 p. 6
3. Web site: rail mobility at its best . Swifambo Holdings . 2014-05-18 . 2014-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140519022528/http://www.swifamboholdings.co.za/ . 2014-05-19 .