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Kinki Sharyo

Japanese rolling stock manufacturer

Summary

Japanese rolling stock manufacturer

Field	Value
name	Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
native_name	近畿車輛株式会社
native_name_lang	ja
romanized_name	Kinki Sharyō kabushiki gaisha
logo	Kinki Sharyo logo.svg
type	Public
traded_as
founded
key_people	Itsuo Morishita (President)
industry	Rolling stock manufacturing
num_employees	1,000
homepage
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

Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. 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 .

1988 Kawasaki-Kinki Sharyo builder's plate on a C151 Train from [[Singapore MRT

Clients

North America

Mexico's Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

United States

MBTA Green Line
Los Angeles Metro Rail (P3010)
New Jersey Transit Hudson-Bergen and Newark Light Rail
VTA light rail
Valley Metro Rail
Sound Transit Link
DART rail (SLRV)

Asia

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.
Philippines
- Light Rail Transit Authority & Light Rail Manila Corporation (Manila LRT Line 1)
  - Class 1200 LRV (joint venture with Nippon Sharyo)
Qatar
- Doha Metro
Singapore
- Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
  - Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151
United Arab Emirates
- Dubai Metro
  - Dubai Metro Green Line & Dubai Metro Red Line

Japan

JR Group
Kintetsu
Hanshin Electric Railway
Nankai Electric Railway
Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau
Sendai City Transportation Bureau

Africa

Egypt
- Cairo Metro
- Alexandria, Egypt trams

Australia

Trans-Australian Express train coaches.

South America

Argentina: Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado Roca Line

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
- [[File:VTA Tasman Station (August 11th, 2005).jpg|thumb|VTA San Jose]]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
- Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) – Dallas, Texas[[File:DART rail.jpg|thumb|[[Dallas Area Rapid Transit|DART Dallas]]]]
- 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.
- 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
- [[File:20200224 133656 M4024.jpg|thumb|EMU Linea Roca Argentina]]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)
  - [[File:Shinkansen0-n700.jpg|thumb|Lineup of [[JR West]] Shinkansen trains, October 2008]]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
  - 271 series – West Japan Railway limited express train
  - 273 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"[[File:KINTETSU50000 Formation.JPG|thumb|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
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[[File:Builder's plate of Kinki Sharyo 001.JPG|thumb|[[Builder's plate]] of Kinki Sharyo]]
Prototype(s)
- Smart BEST hybrid Battery electric multiple unit

References

Nelson, Laura J. (November 26, 2014) [https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-kinkisharyo-20141126-story.html "Japanese firm plans to build light-rail cars in L.A. area after all"] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
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(2014-01-24). "New Train Contracts for Future East West Corridor of Shatin to Central Link Awarded". [[MTR Corporation]].
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Fazio, A.E. (Widener University). "Operations and Communications Designing New Light Rail Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla". Transportation Research Circular E-C058: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference.
"Railway Gazette: LFX-300 Ameritram hybrid streetcar unveiled in Charlotte".

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