Railpool is a European rolling stock leasing company based in Munich, Germany.
During August 2008, Railpool was established as a joint venture between HSH Nordbank and KfW IPEX-Bank to offer passenger and freight locomotive and rolling stock financing and leasing, in addition to advice and other services, to the European rail market.
[9] In August 2021, the company agreed the purchase of 20 Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility, built for service in the countries of Germany, Austria, Poland, Croatia, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia along the Eastern Corridor.
[12][13] Two years later, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore GIC took up a 49% stake in Railpool alongside Oaktree.
[15] During April 2018, the Paribus Group sold its Northrail Technical Service locomotive maintenance division to Railpool.
[18] During the late 2010s, Railpool adopted BE-terna's cloud-based enterprise resource planning solution Infor M3 to manage its service and rental processes.