Kinki Sharyo
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Native name | 近畿車輛株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Kinki Sharyō kabushiki gaisha |
| Type | Public KK |
| TYO: 7122 | |
| Industry | Rolling stock manufacturing |
| Founded | December 19, 1920 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Itsuo Morishita (President) |
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| Owner | Kintetsu Group Holdings (14.2% direct ownership, another 30.4% through Kintetsu Railway) |
Number of employees | 1000 |
| Parent | Kintetsu Railway (30.4%) |
| Website | www |
The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. (近畿車輛株式会社, Kinki Sharyō Kabushiki-gaisha), also known as Kinkisharyo (as one word, without the space), 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 have produced light rail vehicles used by a number of transportation agencies. Kinki Sharyo is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as TYO: 7122
Clients[]
North America[]
Kinki Sharyo Type 7 streetcar on the MBTA Green Line (Boston, MA)
- Boston's MBTA Green Line
- LA's Metro A, E, L, 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 Central Link Light Rail[2]
- Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas (Kinki Sharyo SLRV)
- Sound Transit Link Light Rail[3]
Japan[]
- JR Group
- Kintetsu
- Hanshin Electric Railway
- Nankai Electric Railway
- Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
- Sendai City 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 West Rail line, Ma On Shan line, and East Rail line.
- Extra SP1000/1950 carriages for the Sha Tin to Central Link, ordered 2014.[4]
- Philippine's Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1 (jointly with Nippon Sharyo)
- Class 1200 LRV
- Qatar, Doha Metro
- Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system
Elsewhere[]
- Egypt's Cairo Metro
- Qatar Rail, Qatar
- Trans-Australian Express train coaches.[5]
- Alexandria, Egypt trams
- Argentina: Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado Roca Line
EMU Linea Roca Argentina
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
- Low Floor Light Rail Vehicle - Santa Clara County, California
VTA San Jose - 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[6]
- 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™[7] and tested on Charlotte Area Transit System network in 2011.
- P3010 - LA Metro, Los Angeles, California
- Life Extension work on Hitachi Rail CQ311 series cars used by MARTA
- 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
- Sub-urban "Toshiba" EMUs of Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Toshiba's electrical equipments)
- JR Group
- Shinkansen (West Japan Railway)
Lineup of JR West Shinkansen trains, October 2008 - 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
- Shinkansen (West Japan Railway)
- 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"
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
- Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway
- 9000 series - Electric Train
- Kintetsu Railway
- 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
- Sendai City Transportation Bureau
- 2000 series - Sendai Subway for Tozai Line
- 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
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Nelson, Laura J. (November 26, 2014) "Japanese firm plans to build light-rail cars in L.A. area after all" Los Angeles Times
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070213041919/http://www.soundtransit.org/x3920.xml
- ^ https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/first-new-link-light-rail-vehicles-enter-passenger-service
- ^ http://www.mtr-shatincentrallink.hk/pdf/en/multimedia-gallery/press/24012014_pr_e.pdf
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-11-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Kinki Sharyo (in English)
- Kinki Sharyo USA
Categories:
- Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
- Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1920
- Electric vehicle manufacturers of Japan
- Defunct defense companies of Japan
- Tram manufacturers
- Kintetsu
- Rail infrastructure manufacturers
- Rolling stock manufacturers of Japan
- Japanese brands
- Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- 1920 establishments in Japan