Rock Rail

In the following years, numerous other leasing arrangements and strategic partnerships have come about between Rock Rail and other organisations, including South Western Railway, Avanti West Coast, and East Midlands Railway; the company has come to comprise roughly 40 percent of all new rolling stock orders in the UK rail market at times.

[1] It has been described as an investor and asset manager of passenger-orientated rolling stock and other rail-side infrastructure, such as electrification, digital signalling and depots, and introducing new technologies to the sector.

[2] During February 2016, the company announced its first rolling stock leasing deal, valued at £200 million, for 25 Siemens Mobility-built Class 717 dual-voltage electric multiple units (EMUs) on behalf of Govia Thameslink Railway.

[3] On 4 October 2016, Rock Rail also financed the purchase of 20 Stadler-built Class 745 and 38 Class 755 multiple units for Abellio Greater Anglia; the deal, at a cost reportedly in excess of £600 million, was described by Abellio UK Managing Director Dominic Booth as one part of "the largest-ever privately-funded train procurement in the UK".

Management has reportedly viewed the general state of Britain's rolling stock as 'elderly' and prime opportunities for being involved in its replacement.

A pair of Class 755 multiple units, 2020