Rolling stock firm’s £80m dividend payout fuels calls for UK rail nationalisation
Unions describe Porterbrook’s figures, despite downturn in wider rail industry’s revenues, as ‘shocking but unsurprising’ The rolling stock firm Porterbrook paid out £80m in dividends to its mainly overseas shareholders last year, accounts show, fuelling further calls for Britain’s trains to be nationalised. The firm’s train leasing arm made profits of £144m in 2023, when…