Kinki Sharyo

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 the light rail vehicles used by a number of transportation agencies.

Kinki Sharyo is a listed stock on the Osaka and Tokyo Stock Exchanges.

Clients

• Boston's MBTA
• San Jose's VTA Light Rail
• Charlotte Area Transit System
• The Dubai, UAE's Dubai Metro
• New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark City Subway systems
• Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas
• Hong Kong's Kowloon-Canton Railway (merged with Mass Transit Railway in 2007.)
  • One type of train of the Guangdong Through Train, also known as KTT.
  • SP1900/1950 EMU, serving the      West Rail Line,      Ma On Shan Line, and part of the trains of the      East Rail Line.
• Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system
• Egypt's Cairo Metro
• Japan Rail group
• Philippines' Manila Light Rail Transit System
• Phoenix's METRO Light Rail
• Seattle's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail^[1]

Products

Kinki Sharyo also produces steel doors, 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
  • Low Floor Light Rail Vehicle - Santa Clara County, California
  • Type 7 Light Rail Vehicle- Boston, Massachusetts
  • HB Series (informal name) low-floor light rail vehicle - Newark & Hudson County, New Jersey<^[2]
  • Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) - Dallas, Texas
  • LF LRV - Seattle, Washington (to enter service 2009)
  • LF LRV - Phoenix, Arizona (to enter service 2008)
  • LFX-300, "ameriTRAM" ^[3]

• 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
• Japan Railway
  • N700 Series Shinkansen
  • 700 Series Shinkansen
  • 500 Series Shinkansen
  • 300 Series Shinkansen
  • 681 series West Japan Railway and Hokuetsu Express Limited Express
  • 683 series West Japan Railway Limited Express
  • E257 series East Japan Railway Limited Express
  • 285 series West Japan Railway and Central Japan Railway Sleeping car
  • 287 series West Japan Railway limited express train
  • 313 series Central Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
  • 223 series West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
  • 225 series West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
  • 321 series West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train
  • 303 series Kyushu Railway Commuter Electric Train

• Private railway, etc., in Japan
  • Double decker cars "Vista Car" - Kinki Nippon Railway
  • 21020 Series Kinki Nippon Railway Limited Express Electric Train "URBAN LINER NEXT
  • 3220, 5820, 6820, 9020 and 9820 Series Kinki Nippon Railway "SERIES 21" Commuter Electric Car
  • 50 series - Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau subway Train for Tozai Line
  • 80 Series Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Linear Motor Subway Cars for Imazatosuji Line
  • 30000 Series Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Subway Cars for Tanimachi Line and Midosuji Line
  • Tokyo Metro 05 series
  • LF LRV - 5100 Series Hiroshima Electric Railway
  • 2000 series Fukuoka Municipal Transportation Bureau Stainless Steel Electric Train

References

1. ^ http://www.soundtransit.org/x1171.xml
2. ^ Fazio, A.E. (Widener University); T.R. Parsons Brinckerhof). Operations and Communications Designing New Light Rail Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla (Report). Transportation Research Circular E-C058: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec058/11_01_Fazio.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-05. 
3. ^ "Railway Gazette: LFX-300 Ameritram hybrid streetcar unveiled in Charlotte". http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/hybrid-streetcar-unveiled-in-charlotte.html. Retrieved 2011-02-13. 

External links

• (English) Kinki Sharyo
• Kinki Sharyo USA