ALPHA TRAINS
Building Europe’s largest and most diversified specialist
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
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1st out of 22 rail companies
Market
- Ongoing liberalisation of the European rail market provides significant opportunities for growth
- Green agenda, investment in new freight corridors and electrified lines encouraging more travel and goods transportation via rail and providing support to private sector rolling stock
- Commercially and technically complex industry with meaningful barriers to entry related to multi-country safety, engineering and signalling requirements
Asset
- Alpha is based in Luxembourg and has 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 seven years. The vehicles typically have long lifespans of up to 40 years
- Since acquisition, Arcus has worked closely with Alpha management to more than triple the size of the company’s fleet and EBITDA
