Porterbrook
Sign in to savePorterbrook is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO), created as part of the privatisation of British Rail. Together with Angel Trains and Eversholt Rail Group, it is one of the three original ROSCOs.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Porterbrook is referenced by 212 other articles, and connects out to Bank of Scotland, Southern and British Rail Class 411.
It is catalogued under topics including 1994 establishments in England, Allianz and Companies formed by management buyout.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Legal form
- private company limited by shares
- Official website
- www.porterbrook.com
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- inception
- 1994-00-00
- product or material produced
- rolling stock
- Commons category
- Trains in Porterbrook livery
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Porterbrook is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO), created as part of the privatisation of British Rail. Together with Angel Trains and Eversholt Rail Group, it is one of the three original ROSCOs.
Porterbrook was established in March 1994 and was privatised via a management buyout during November 1995. In August 1997, it was acquired by the transport specialist Stagecoach at a far higher value. Two and a half years later, Stagecoach sold Porterbrook to the British banking group Abbey National. Prior to this, Porterbrook had entered the freight leasing market for the first time as well as the continental European rail leasing market; the latter activities were sold off in December 2004, resulting in the creation of CB Rail. On 27 October 2008, Porterbrook was purchased from Abbey National by a consortium of Antin Infrastructure Partners, Deutsche Bank and Lloyds TSB.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porterbrook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.