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9.2 - Must a major share company buy a train if it does not have one?

1800, 1825, 1829, 1829 Mainline, 18EZ Level 1 No.
1824, 1826, 1830BC, 1835, 1837, 1838 Rheinland, 1846, 1895, 18EU, 18EZ Levels 2 and 3, 18FL, 18GL, 18MW, 18Scan, 18TN, 18VA, 2038 Yes.
1827 Jr., 1830, 1832, 1841, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1854, 1856, 1862, 1870, 1889, 1898, 18C2C, 18EC, 18GA, 18Mex, 18NL, 18Rhl Rhineland, Steam Over Holland If it has a route.
1831 Yes. And systems must have two or three trains, depending on number of companies that merged.
1837SX If it has a route, and there is at least one train in the initial offering or bank pool.
1842 Yes. And if a private company has no train and does not buy one, it will have to be auctioned off at the start of the next OR.
1844 Major companies and regional companies must if they have a route, pre-SBB companies need not.
1848 Yes, if it has a route, even if the company owns a 2E train.
1853, 1853 v2 No; but its Director may choose to make up the balance from his own money if the company has insufficient credit for a train, leaving the company with an empty treasury.
1860 Yes, if it is able to do so. If it cannot buy a train and has a route it is declared insolvent and must lease a train from the bank, retaining dividends, until it is able to buy a train.
1861 Yes, if it is able to do so. If it cannot buy a train it is nationalised and becomes part of the Russian State Railway.
1876v2 Yes, by a 'forced assisted train purchase'.
18US A 4-share Eastern company, 10-share company or System must own a train if it has operated in the current round. 5-share Land Grant companies and the DRG are not required to own a train.
18West Yes, if it is a public company. Granger Road and Land Grant companies do not need to own a train.
Crisis If it could run a train (type I companies can run trains as 1 trains).

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