Kinki Sharyo
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| Company type | Public KK |
|---|---|
| TYO: 7122 | |
| Industry | Rolling stock manufacturing |
| Founded | December 19, 1920 |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
Key people | Itsuo Morishita (President) |
| Products |
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Number of employees | 1000 |
| Website | kinkisharyo |
The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. (近畿車輛株式会社, Kinki Sharyō Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7122) is an Osaka, Japan-based manufacturer of railroad vehicles. It is an affiliate company of Kintetsu Corporation. In business since 1920 (as Tanaka Rolling Stock Works) and renamed The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd in 1945. They have produced light rail vehicles used by a number of transportation agencies.
Kinki Sharyo is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Clients
North America
- Boston's MBTA Green Line (along with AnsaldoBreda Type 8 cars)
- New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark Light Rail systems
- LA's Metro Blue, Expo, and Gold lines.[1]
- San Jose's VTA Light Rail
- Phoenix's Valley Metro Rail
- Seattle's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail[2]
- Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas
Japan
- JR Group
- Kintetsu
- Hanshin Electric Railway
- Nankai Electric Railway
- Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
Asia
- Dubai, UAE's Dubai Metro
- Hong Kong's Kowloon-Canton Railway (merged with Mass Transit Railway in 2007.)
Hong Kong KCRC MTR SP1900 - Premium Class T1 and T2 bi-level coaches for Guangdong Through Train, also known as KTT.
- SP1900/1950 EMU, serving the Template:HK-MTR box, Template:HK-MTR box, and Template:HK-MTR box.
- Extra SP1000/1950 carriages for the Sha Tin to Central Link, ordered 2014.[3]
- Philippines' Manila Light Rail Transit System
- Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system
Elsewhere
- Egypt's Cairo Metro
- Trans-Australian Express train coaches.[4]
- Alexandria, Egypt trams
Products
Kinki Sharyo also produces steel doors, known as the KJ series, for public housing in Japan.
- LRTA Line 1 Manila, Philippines
- Third Generation Light Rail Vehicle - LRT 1
- Railway Transportation in the United States
VTA San Jose - Type 7 Light Rail Vehicle - Boston, Massachusetts
- HB Series (informal name) low-floor light rail vehicle - Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Newark & Hudson County, New Jersey[5]
- Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) - Dallas, Texas
DART Dallas - LF LRV - Sound Transit Link Light Rail, Seattle, Washington
- LF LRV - Phoenix, Arizona (to enter service 2008)
- LFX-300, ameriTRAM™[6]
- Cairo Metro
- M, N1 and N2 Cars for No.1 Line
- M, N1,N2 and T Cars for No.2 Line
- KCR in Hong Kong (merged with MTR in 2007)
- EMU SP1900/SP1950
- KTT passenger coaches for Guangdong Through Train
- T1 Premium Class bi-level Coaches
- T2 First Class bi-level Coaches
- JR Group
- Shinkansen (West Japan Railway)
Lineup of JR West Shinkansen trains, October 2008 - JR Central
- 313 series - Central Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
- JR East
- E257 series - East Japan Railway Limited Express
- JR West
- 223 series - West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
- 225 series - West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
- 227 series - West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
- 287 series - West Japan Railway limited express train
- 285 series - West Japan Railway and Central Japan Railway Sleeping car
321 series, built by Kinki Sharyo. - 321 series - West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train
- 681 series - West Japan Railway Company and Hokuetsu Express Limited Express
- 683 series - West Japan Railway Limited Express
- JR Shikoku
- 7000 series - Shikoku Railway Suburban Electric Train
- 1500 series - Shikoku Railway Diesel Train
- JR Kyushu
- 303 series - Kyushu Railway Commuter Electric Train
- 813 series -
- Shinkansen (West Japan Railway)
- Private Railways in Japan
- Kintetsu
- Double decker cars "Vista Car" - Kintetsu
- 21020 series - Limited Express Electric Train "Urban Liner Next"
- 23000 series - Limited Express Electric Train "Ise-Shima Liner"
- 22600 series/16600 Series - Limited Express Electric Train "Ace"
- 50000 series - Limited Express Electric Train "Shimakaze"
Kinki Sharyo built Kintetsu 50000 series EMU - 3220, 5820, 6820, 9020 and 9820 Series - "Series 21" Commuter Electric Car
- Hanshin Electric Railway
- 1000 series - Commuter Train
- 5700 series - Commuter Train
- Nankai Electric Railway
- 8300 series - Commuter Train
- Kintetsu
- Municipal Railways in Japan
- Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
- 50 series - Subway Train for Tozai Line
- Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
- 22 series - Subway Cars
- 80 series - Linear Motor Subway Cars for Imazatosuji Line
- 30000 series - Subway Cars for Tanimachi Line and Midosuji Line
- Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
- 5300 series - Subway Cars for the Toei Asakusa Line
- Tokyo Metro
- 05 series - Tokyo Metro for Tozai Line and Chiyoda Line (Ayase Branch)
- Hiroshima Electric Railway
- LF LRV 5100 series
- Fukuoka Municipal Transportation Bureau
- 2000 series - Stainless Steel Electric Train
Builder's plate of Kinki Sharyo
- 2000 series - Stainless Steel Electric Train
- Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
- Prototype(s)
- Smart BEST hybrid Battery electric multiple unit
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References
- ^ Nelson, Laura J. (November 26, 2014) "Japanese firm plans to build light-rail cars in L.A. area after all" Los Angeles Times
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20070213041919/http://www.soundtransit.org/x3920.xml
- ^ http://www.mtr-shatincentrallink.hk/pdf/en/multimedia-gallery/press/24012014_pr_e.pdf
- ^ http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/cr_carriages/r_brd.html
- ^ Fazio, A.E. (Widener University); T.R. Parsons Brinckerhof. Operations and Communications Designing New Light Rail Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla (PDF) (Report). Transportation Research Circular E-C058: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
- ^ "Railway Gazette: LFX-300 Ameritram hybrid streetcar unveiled in Charlotte". Retrieved 2011-02-13.