Kinki Sharyo

The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. (近畿車輛株式会社, Kinki Sharyō Kabushiki-gaisha) 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, especially in the United States. Kinki Sharyo
is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as TYO: 7122 (https://www2.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/StockSearch.do?cal
lJorEFlg=1&method=topsearch&topSearchStr=7122)

Clients
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North America
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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)

Japan
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JR Group

Kintetsu

Hanshin Electric Railway

Nankai Electric Railway

Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau

Sendai City Transportation Bureau

 Sendai City Transportation Bureau

Asia
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Dubai, UAE's Dubai Metro
The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong's Kowloon–Canton Railway
(merged with Mass Transit Railway in 2007.)

Native name 近畿車輛株式会社

Romanized name Kinki Sharyō kabushiki

gaisha

Type Public KK

Traded as TYO: 7122 (https://www2

.jpx.co.jp/tseHpFront/Sto
ckSearch.do?callJorEFlg
=1&method=topsearch&t
opSearchStr=7122)

Industry Rolling stock

manufacturing

Founded December 19, 1920

Headquarters Osaka, Japan

Key people Itsuo Morishita

(President)

Products Shinkansen trains

Passenger coaches

Trams

Light rail vehicles

Number of employees 1,000

Parent Kintetsu Group Holdings

Co.
14.2% direct
ownership

another 30.4% through

Kintetsu Railway, held
as investment trust
managed by MTBJ

Website www.kinkisharyo.co.jp
/english/ (https://www.kin
kisharyo.co.jp/english/
)
 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.[3]

Philippine's Light Rail Transit Authority

Class 1200 LRV (jointly with Nippon Sharyo) serving the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1.

Qatar, Doha Metro

Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system

Elsewhere
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Cairo Metro

Qatar Rail, Qatar

Trans-Australian Express train coaches.[4]

Alexandria, Egypt trams

Argentina: Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado Roca Line

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

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

Unnamed Low Floor LRV – 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[5]

Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) – Dallas, Texas

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™[6] 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
 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)

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

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"

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
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

Prototype(s)
Smart BEST hybrid Battery electric multiple unit

See also
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Kinki Sharyo SLRV

References
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1. Nelson, Laura J. (November 26, 2014) "Japanese firm plans to build light-rail cars in L.A. area after all" (http://ww
w.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-kinkisharyo-20141126-story.html) Los Angeles Times

2. "Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070213041919/http://www.soundtransit.org/x3920.xml) .

 www.soundtransit.org. Archived from the original (http://www.soundtransit.org/x3920.xml) on 13 February
2007. Retrieved 11 January 2022.

3. http://www.mtr-shatincentrallink.hk/pdf/en/multimedia-gallery/press/24012014_pr_e.pdf

4. "Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20131213061141/http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/cr_carriages/r

_brd.html) . Archived from the original (http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/cr_carriages/r_brd.html) on
2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-11-21.

5. Fazio, A.E. (Widener University); T.R. Parsons Brinckerhof. Operations and Communications Designing New Light
Rail Taking Engineering Beyond Vanilla (http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec058/11_01_Fazio.pdf)
(PDF) (Report). Transportation Research Circular E-C058: 9th National Light Rail Transit Conference. Retrieved
2011-05-05.

6. "Railway Gazette: LFX-300 Ameritram hybrid streetcar unveiled in Charlotte" (http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/

news/single-view/view/hybrid-streetcar-unveiled-in-charlotte.html) . Retrieved 2011-02-13.

External links
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Kinki Sharyo (http://www.kinkisharyo.co.jp/e_index.htm) (in English)

Kinki Sharyo USA (http://www.kinkisharyo-usa.com)