ALPHA TRAINS
Driving growth as Europe’s most diversified rolling stock lessor
Market leader leasing over €2 billion of passenger trains and locomotives to public and private operators in 17 countries across Continental Europe.

ALPHA TRAINS
Driving growth as Europe’s most diversified rolling stock lessor
Market leader leasing over €2 billion of passenger trains and locomotives to public and private operators in 17 countries across Continental Europe.
Transport
Managed Account
Vehicle
2008
Investment year
Invested
Status
Luxembourg
Country
Alpha provides critical infrastructure for daily passenger commuting and hauling of freight cargo
As part of its ongoing growth plans Alpha has ordered a significant amount of new passenger trains and locomotives, which are under construction for forward starting long-term leases
Alpha has significant investment in low carbon “green” transportation. Over 80% of Alpha’s fleet is electric, positioning Alpha as a responsible investor in low carbon mass transportation assets
Managed
Passenger trains
Locomotives
Employees
1st out of 22 rail companies
Market
The ongoing liberalisation of the European rail market presents significant opportunities for growth.
The green agenda, investment in new freight corridors and electrified lines is encouraging more travel and goods transportation via rail and providing for private sector rolling stock.
Commercially and technically complex industry with meaningful barriers to entry to multi-country safety, engineering and signaling requirements.
Asset
Alpha is headquartered in Luxembourg, with operational bases in Antwerp, Cologne, Warsaw, Madrid, and Paris.
Alpha benefits from efficiencies as a market leader with scale to manage and grow its assets effectively, in a complex market characterised by strong entry barriers and long-term leasing contracts.
Alpha has a young fleet, with an average age of just 10 years. The vehicles typically have long lifespans of up to 40 years.
Since acquisition, Arcus has worked closely with Alpha’s management team to more than triple the size of the company’s fleet and EBITDA.
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Date joined
June 2022
Office
London
English
Polish
French
Afrikaans
Karol joined Arcus in June 2022 as a Senior Investment Executive. Prior to joining Arcus, Karol worked in the digital infrastructure origination team at Amber Infrastructure and in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital. Karol is a member of the Digital Origination Team. His infrastructure experience to date has been primarily focused on infrastructure origination.
Karol holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from University of Manchester.
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