Angel Trains

Angel Trains

Angel Trains is the largest of the three major ROSCOs (Rolling Stock Companies) in the United Kingdomcite news| title=RBS sells off rail stock business | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7452205.stm | publisher=BBC News | date=2008-06-13 | accessdate=2008-06-13] . Created in 1994 as part of the privatisation of British Rail, it owns around a third of passenger railway locomotives, multiple units and coaching stock running on Network Rail's system which it leases to various train operators. Like its fellow ROSCOs (HSBC Rail & Porterbrook) Angel Trains was owned by a major banking group, in this case Royal Bank of Scotland Group who acquired Angel Trains in December 1997 from a division of Nomura Holdings for £395 million. On June 13, 2008 Royal Bank of Scotland announced that it was selling Angel Trains for £3.6 billion to a group led by Babcock & Brown.

References

External links

* [http://www.angeltrains.co.uk/ Angel Trains website]


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