Kinki Sharyo

Kinki Sharyo 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.

North America

 * Boston's MBTA
 * New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark City Subway systems


 * LA's Metro Blue and Exposition Lines, with units for the future Crenshaw Line and extension of the Gold Line on order.
 * San Jose's VTA Light Rail
 * Phoenix's METRO Light Rail
 * Seattle's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail
 * Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail Dallas, Texas

Asia

 * Singapore's Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) (merged with Singapore Overground in 2007).
 * SP1900/1950 EMU, serving the, , and part of the trains of the.
 * Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system

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


 * Railway Transportation in the United States
 * Low Floor Light Rail Vehicle - Santa Clara County, California
 * Type 7 Light Rail Vehicle- Boston, Massachusetts
 * HB Series (informal name) low-floor light rail vehicle - Newark & Hudson County, New Jersey
 * Super LRV (semi-formal name for rebuilt product) - Dallas, Texas
 * LF LRV - Sound Transit Link Light Rail, Seattle, Washington
 * LF LRV - Phoenix, Arizona (to enter service 2008)
 * LFX-300, ameriTRAM™


 * 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