Kinki Sharyo Explained

Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
Native Name:	近畿車輛株式会社
Native Name Lang:	ja
Romanized Name:	Kinki Sharyō kabushiki gaisha
Type:	Public
Key People:	Itsuo Morishita (President)
Industry:	Rolling stock manufacturing
Num Employees:	1,000
Location Country:	Japan
Location City:	Osaka
Parent:	Kintetsu Group Holdings Co. 14.2% direct ownership another 30.4% through Kintetsu Railway, held as investment trust managed by MTBJ

is a Japanese manufacturer of railroad vehicles based in Osaka. 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 produce rolling stock for numerous transportation agencies, ranging from Shinkansen high-speed trains to light rail vehicles. Kinki Sharyo is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as .

Clients

North America

Boston's MBTA Green Line
LA's Metro A, E, L, K, and C lines.^[1]
New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen and Newark Light Rail systems
San Jose's VTA light rail
Phoenix's Valley Metro Rail
Seattle's Sound Transit Link 1 Line^[2]
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas (Kinki Sharyo SLRV)

Japan

Asia

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Dubai, UAE's Dubai Metro
Hong Kong's Kowloon–Canton Railway (merged with Mass Transit Railway in 2007.)
- Premium Class T1 and T2 bi-level coaches for Guangdong Through Train, also known as KTT.
- SP1900/1950 EMU, serving the, and formerly the West Rail, Ma On Shan, and s
  - Extra SP1000/1950 carriages for the Sha Tin to Central Link, ordered 2014.^[3]
  - Philippine's Light Rail Transit Authority Class 1200 LRV (jointly with Nippon Sharyo) serving the LRT Line 1 (Metro Manila).
Qatar
- Doha Metro
Singapore
- Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
  - Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151

Elsewhere

Cairo Metro
Trans-Australian Express train coaches.^[4]
Alexandria, Egypt trams
Argentina: Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado Roca Line
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

Products

Kinki Sharyo also produces steel doors, known as the KJ series, for public housing in Japan.

LRTA Line 1 Manila, Philippines
- LRTA Class 1200
Railway Transportation in the United States
- Unnamed Low Floor LRV – Santa Clara County, California
- Green Line (MBTA) 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
- Kinkisharyo-Mitsui LF LRV – Sound Transit Link light rail, Seattle, Washington
- Valley Metro Rail LF LRV – Phoenix, Arizona (entered service 2008)
- LFX-300 – marketed as AmeriTRAM™^[6] and tested on Charlotte Area Transit System network in 2011.
- P3010 – LA Metro, Los Angeles, California
- Refurbishment of the Hitachi Rail CQ311 used by MARTA
- Refurbishment of the AnsaldoBreda P2550 used by LA Metro
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
Ferrocarriles Argentinos
- Sub-urban "Toshiba" EMUs of Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Toshiba's electrical equipments)
  - For Sarmiento Line
  - For Mitre Line
  - For Urquiza Line
  - For Roca Line
JR Group
- Shinkansen (West Japan Railway)
- Shinkansen (Central Japan Railway)
  - 300 Series Shinkansen
  - 100 Series Shinkansen
- Shinkansen (Kyushu Railway)
  - N700 Series Shinkansen
- 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
  - 271 series – West Japan Railway limited express train
  - 287 series – West Japan Railway limited express train
  - 285 series – West Japan Railway and Central Japan Railway Electric Sleeping car
  - 321 series – West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train
  - 323 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
  - 87 series (KiITe 87, KiSaINe 86-501, KiRa 86, KiShi 86) – West Japan Railway Diesel Sleeping car
- 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 – Kyushu Railway Suburban Electric Train
Private Railways in Japan
- Kintetsu Railway
  - 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"
  - 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
- Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway
  - 9000 series – Electric Train
Municipal Railways in Japan
- Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
  - 10 series – Subway train for the Karasuma Line
  - 20 series – Subway train for the Karasuma Line
  - 50 series – Subway train for the Tozai Line
- Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau / Osaka Metro
  - 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
- Sendai City Transportation Bureau
  - 2000 series – Sendai Subway for Tozai Line
- Fukuoka Municipal Transportation Bureau
  - 2000 series – Stainless Steel Electric Train
Prototype(s)
- Smart BEST hybrid Battery electric multiple unit

External links

Notes and References

Nelson, Laura J. (November 26, 2014) "Japanese firm plans to build light-rail cars in L.A. area after all" Los Angeles Times
Web site: Sound Transit . www.soundtransit.org . 11 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070213041919/http://www.soundtransit.org/x3920.xml . 13 February 2007 . dead.
New Train Contracts for Future East West Corridor of Shatin to Central Link Awarded . 2014-01-24 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20221006194204/http://www.mtr-shatincentrallink.hk/pdf/en/multimedia-gallery/press/24012014_pr_e.pdf . 2022-10-06.
Web site: BRD - Classification . 2013-11-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131213061141/http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/cr_carriages/r_brd.html . 2013-12-13 .
Fazio . A.E. (Widener University) . Hickey . T.R. Parsons Brinckerhof . Operations and Communications Designing New Light Rail Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla . Transportation Research Circular E-C058: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference . 2011-05-05 .
Web site: Railway Gazette: LFX-300 Ameritram hybrid streetcar unveiled in Charlotte. 2011-02-13.