| Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. | |
| Native Name: | 日本車輌製造株式会社 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Romanized Name: | Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha |
| Type: | Public KK |
| Former Name: | Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd. |
| Traded As: | |
| Location: | Nagoya, Japan |
| Industry: | Railways |
| Key People: | Tsutomu Morimura (President & CEO), Mikio Tsuge (Senior Managing Director of Nippon Sharyo, Ltd and Chairman of Nippon Sharyo USA, Inc.) |
| Num Employees: | 1,850 (September 2018) |
| Products: | Rolling stock |
| Parent: | JR Central (50.1%) |
, formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan. In 1996, it abbreviated its name to "日本車両" Nippon Sharyō. Its shortest abbreviation is Nissha "日車". It was a listed company on Nikkei 225 until 2004. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange as ticker 7102. In 2008, Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central. In July 2012 Nippon Sharyo USA started production in their new facility in Rochelle, Illinois. The facility closed at the end of October 2018 due to a lack of orders.[1] [2]
I.F.E EMUs Working on Caracas-Cua commuter line Railway System Ezequiel Zamora (Central)
Rheostatic series (KRL Rheostatik Mild Steel and Stainless) (The train was also made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi):
All Rheostatic EMUs have stopped operating in the Jabodetabek lines and is currently waiting to be scrapped.
Shinko Diesel Multiple Units (a.k.a. KRD MCW 301 and KRD MCW 302) are used for short-distance lines such as Surabaya-Lamongan, Surabaya-Sidoarjo, etc.
KRD MCW 301 and 302 initially uses the Shinko DMH17H engine and Niigata TCR 2.5 transmission
Note: The DMUs built in 1976 are now used as regular loco-hauled trains without engines. The DMUs made in 1978, 1980, & 1982 upwards are refurbished with a Cummins Engine (NT885-R) and Voith turbo (T211re.3) transmission.
The new rolling stock, known as the MRTJ 1000, was built specifically for the Jakarta MRT[8]
Nippon Sharyo Seso Kraisha Co., Ltd. originally built 5 CX50 Steam locomotives in 1953 and was ready to sell them to the State Railway of Thailand using numbers 851 - 855 as reserve vehicles. But the railway did not accept the locomotive, so it was sold to Hejaz railway in Jordan in 1959[9]
Nippon Sharyo, in 1936, built the JNR Class C56 steam locomotive number C56 31, which was used in 1943 to open the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, as stylized in the movie The Bridge Over the River Kwai, built by over 100,000 Allied POW and other slave labourers. This restored steam engine now sits in the foyer of the Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo. Japanese veteran groups raised funds to return the locomotive from Thailand to Japan in 1979.
During World War II, Nippon Sharyo, like many major Japanese companies, drew upon prisoner of war labour to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labour for Nippon Sharyo.[10]