Kinki Sharyo

Nihongo|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 the light rail vehicles used by a number of transportation agencies.

Kinki Sharyo is a listed stock on the Osaka and Tokyo Stock Exchanges.

Clients

* Boston's MBTA
* California's Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
* The UAE's Dubai Metro
* Los Angeles' Metro
* New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark City Subway systems
* Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Texas,
* Hong Kong's Kowloon-Canton Railway (however, the Mass Transit Railway has now taken over the KCR.)
* Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system
* Egypt's Cairo Metro
* Japan Rail group
* Philippines' Manila Light Rail Transit System
* Phoenix's Valley Metro Light Rail (Will begin carrying passengers in December 2008.) http://www.valleymetro.org/Rail/
* Seattle's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail (Will begin carrying passengers in 2009.) http://www.soundtransit.org/x1171.xml

Products

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

* LRTA Line 1 Manila, Philippines
** Third Generation Light Rail Vehicle - LRT 1

* Railway Transportation in the USA
** Low Floor Light Rail Vehicle - Santa Clara County, CA
** "Type 7" Light Rail Vehicle- Boston, MA
** HB Series (informal name) low-floor light rail vehicle - Newark & Hoboken/Jersey City, NJ
** Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) - Dallas, TX
** LF LRV - Seattle, WA (to enter service 2009)
** LF LRV - Phoenix, AZ (to enter service 2008)

* 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 (MTR took over KCR)
** EMU SP1900/SP1950
** KTT passenger coaches for Guangdong Through Train
*** T1 Premium Class bi-level Coaches
*** T2 First Class bi-level Coaches
* Japan Railway
** 700 Series "NOZOMI" West Japan Railway Shinkansen Bullet Train
** 500 series West Japan Railway Shinkansen Bullet Train "NOZOMI"
** 300 Series Central Japan Railway Shinkansen Bullet Train "NOZOMI"
** 681 and 683 series West Japan Railway Limited Express Electric Train "THUNDERBIRD"
** E257 series East Japan Railway Limited Express Electric Train "SAZANAMI, WAKASHIO"
** 313 Series Central Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
** 223 Series West Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train
** 321 Series West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train
** 303 Series Kyushu Railway Commuter Electric Train

* Private railway etc. in Japan
** Double decker cars "Vista Car" - Kinki Nippon Railway
** 21020 Series Kinki Nippon Railway Limited Express Electric Train "URBAN LINER NEXT
** 3220, 5820, 6820, 9020 and 9820 Series Kinki Nippon Railway "SERIES 21" Commuter Electric Car
** 50 series - Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau subway Train for "TOZAI LINE"
** 80 Series Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Linear Motor Subway Cars
** 05 series Tokyo Metro
** LF LRV - 5100 Series Hiroshima Electric Railway
** 2000 series Fukuoka Municipal Transportation Bureau Stainless Steel Electric Train

External links

*en icon [http://www.kinkisharyo.co.jp/e_index.htm Kinki Sharyo]
* [http://www.kinkisharyo-usa.com Kinki Sharyo USA]