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Type
  
Public KK

Website
  
kinkisharyo.co.jp

Founded
  
19 December 1920

Parent organization
  
Kintetsu Railway

Traded as
  
TYO: 7122

Headquarters
  
Japan

Number of employees
  
1,000

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Industry
  
Rolling stock manufacturing

Key people
  
Itsuo Morishita (President)

Products
  
Shinkansen trains Passenger coaches Trams Light Rail

Stock price
  
7122 (TYO) JP¥ 2,551 -6.00 (-0.23%)14 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer

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.

Contents

Kinki Sharyo is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

North America

  • Boston's MBTA Green Line (along with AnsaldoBreda Type 8 cars)
  • LA's Metro Blue, Expo, and Gold lines.
  • New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark Light Rail systems
  • San Jose's VTA Light Rail
  • Phoenix's Valley Metro Rail
  • Seattle's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail
  • Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas (Kinki Sharyo SLRV)

    • 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.)
  • 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.
  • Philippines' Manila Light Rail Transit System
  • Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system

    • Elsewhere

  • Egypt's Cairo Metro
  • Trans-Australian Express train coaches.
  • 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
  • Low Floor Light Rail Vehicle - 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
  • 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™ and tested on Charlotte Area Transit System network in 2011.
  • 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)
  • W7 Series Shinkansen
  • N700 Series Shinkansen
  • 700 Series (Rail-Star) Shinkansen
  • 500 Series Shinkansen
  • 100 Series (Grand Hikari) Shinkansen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prototype(s)
  • Smart BEST hybrid Battery electric multiple unit

    • References

    Kinki Sharyo Wikipedia
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