Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
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| Type | Division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries |
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| Industry | Rolling stock manufacturing |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Headquarters | Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan |
| Products | Electric cars (including Shinkansen trains Monorails Passenger coaches and freight cars Diesel locomotives Electric locomotives Platform screen door systems Passenger coaches and freight cars integrated transit systems |
| Website | http://www.khi.co.jp/sharyo kawasakirailcar.com |
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company (川崎重工業車両カンパニー Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Sharyō Kampanī) is the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad vehicles.
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[edit] Products
As indicated by the company name, the company mainly produces railroad vehicles. Recently Kawasaki has received orders from customers in foreign countries, including Ireland and the United States. All products manufactured for the US rail market are sold through Kawasaki Rail Car Inc., another division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Because of substantial sales to the New York City Subway and various commuter lines, an overseas assembly plant been established in Yonkers, New York. (At present, most of the vehicles for the US market are already produced there)
[edit] Japan Railways Group
Products produced for the Japan Railways Group, or JR Group, include:
- Shinkansen： All types except 800 series
- JR / JNR local lines:
- Former JNR: 103 series, 211 series EMUs
- JR Central: 311 series, 371 series, 383 series EMUs
- JR East: 651 series, 209 series, E231 series, E233 series, E331 series, E531 series, 701 series, E721 series EMUs
- JR Hokkaido: 721 series, 731 series, 785 series, 789 series EMUs
- JR West: 281 series, 283 series, 285 series, 681 series, 683 series, 207 series, 223 series, 225 series, 521 series, 125 series EMUs
- JR Shikoku: 5000 series EMUs (5000 type cab cars, 5200 type intermediate cars)
- JR Freight: JR Freight Class EF510 electric locomotives, JR Freight Class DF200 diesel locomotives
[edit] Major private railway corporation
Production for the following private railways include:
- Hanshin Electric Railway
- Keihan Electric Railway
- Keihin Electric Express Railway
- Nishi-Nippon Railroad
- Odakyu Electric Railway
- Tokyo Metro
[edit] Other railway companies in Japan
- Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway (All cars)
- Kobe Electric Railway (All cars)
- Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company (All cars)
- Saitama Railway
- Sanyo Electric Railway (All cars)
- Semboku Rapid Railway
- Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit (All cars)
[edit] Public transportation bureaus
- Fukuoka City Transportation Bureau
- Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau (All cars)
- Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
- Sapporo City Transportation Bureau (All subways, some tramways)
- Sendai City Transportation Bureau
- Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
- Yokohama City Transportation Bureau (All cars)
[edit] Monorails & ATGs
Production for Monorails and Automated guideway transits (ATG) include:
- Hiroshima Rapid Transit
- Kobe New Transit
- Kitakyushu Urban Monorail
- Okinawa City Monorail
- Osaka Monorail
- Saitama New Urban Transit
- Tama Toshi Monorail
[edit] Overseas export
- Chinese Ministry of Railways (Type 6K, Type CRH2)
- Iarnród Éireann (Irish Railways)
- MTR (Type SP1900, West Rail Line Type Kawasaki
- Long Island Rail Road C-3 bilevel cars
- MARC bilevel commuter cars
- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Bilevel commuter cars)
- New York City Subway (R62, R68A, R110A, R142A, R143, R160B)
- Metro-North Railroad M8
- PATH PA4 and PA5 cars
- Panama Canal Authority
- Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (C151, C751B, C151A)
- Keretapi Tanah Melayu (Class 24)
- SEPTA Broad Street Subway cars and Type K Subway-Surface/Suburban trolleys
- Taipei Rapid Transit System (C301, C371)
- Taiwan High Speed Rail (Type 700T)
- Virginia Railway Express bilevel commuter cars
- Washington Metro 7000 series railcar
[edit] External links
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