Where can I find out how to purchase rolling stock?

[CamRolling]

Hi everyone, I'm looking to purchase locomotives and passenger coach, where is the best place to start looking for contacts?

Is there a trade group or organisation that trade rolling stock?

Google hasn't been very helpful so far unless there's a search term I should be using?

Thank you for any help you can give.

 

[Bertie the bus]

Would you like to enlighten us as to what you intend to do with it and what your budget is?

 

[ainsworth74]

You could contact one of the larger Rolling Stock Owning Companies (ROSCOs) such as Angel, Eversholt or Porterbrook. They can lease rolling stock and also tend to finance the procurement of new stock which they then lease to the relevant operator. Alternatively you could approach a manufacturer directly such as Hitachi, Siemens, Bombardier, Stadler or CAF directly. Though the costs for any of those are going to be measurable in the millions of pounds.

You could otherwise approach one of the freight companies like DB Cargo or GBRF to see if they have any locomotives they'd be willing to sell second hand and then perhaps one of the preservation groups that are dotted around the country to see if they have any coaches they'd be willing to part with. That is probably cheaper but will still likely run to the tens of thousands of pounds (realistically hundreds of thousands for equipment that's actually in serviceable condition).

It would probably be helpful to have some idea of what it is you are actually trying to achieve?

 

[cf111]

It is perhaps noting at this point that if you wanted to stick them in your garden then, once you got them there, that would be the end of the costs, but if you were planning on running them on the national network then that would not be cheap.

 

[pieguyrob]

You fail to mention what scale or gauge you want them in? N gauge is far cheaper than O gauge, with OO somewhere in between. Like wise, a Welsh high land railway double fairlie will be a lot cheaper (I presume), than something like a Eurostar.

 

[pieguyrob]

Oh various scrap dealers have a good line in class 315's.

 

[The Lad]

I understand that if you are intending a garden Railway the planners don't always look kindly on 12" to the foot scale.

 

[ComUtoR]

One of our Drivers has his own EMU (I think its a 416)

 

[Ken H]

Dont DB SChenker advertise locos for sale sometimes. Seem to remember adverts in Modern railways.

 

[pieguyrob]

3 class 60's have been advertised recently. Also angel trains and porterbrook will have a lot of pacer units available at the end of next year. They should be a bargain.

 

[Spartacus]

45015's probably cheap.....