is a Japanese manufacturer of

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vehicles based in

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. It is an affiliate company of

Kintetsu Corporation , referred to as , is a Japanese railway holding company which primarily owns the Kintetsu Railway as well as Kintetsu World Express, Kintetsu Department Store, and its other 141 corporations, which are collectively known as Kintetsu Group. I ...

. 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

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. Kinki Sharyo is listed on the

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Clients

North America

* Boston's MBTA Green Line * LA's Metro A, E, L, and C lines. * New Jersey's Hudson-Bergen and Newark Light Rail systems * San Jose's

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* Phoenix's

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's Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail *

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(DART) light rail

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( Kinki Sharyo SLRV)

Japan

* JR Group * Kintetsu * Hanshin Electric Railway * Nankai Electric Railway * Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau *

Sendai City Transportation Bureau is a public transport organization in Sendai, Japan. The organization operates subways and buses within the city. It was founded in 1926. Transport * Sendai City Bus **Sendai Airport bus (Discontinued in 2007) **Loople Sendai (A circle line for ...

Asia

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, UAE's Dubai Metro *

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Kowloon–Canton Railway The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR; ) was a railway network in Hong Kong.Legislative Council information paper CB(1)357/07-08(0 THB(T) CR 8/986/00, CB(1)1749/07-08(0/ref> It was owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCR ...

(merged with Mass Transit Railway in 2007.) SP1900 E227

** Premium Class T1 and T2 bi-level coaches for Guangdong Through Train, also known as KTT. ** SP1900/1950 EMU, serving the , , and . ***Extra SP1000/1950 carriages for the

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, ordered 2014. *

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's Light Rail Transit Authority ** Class 1200 LRV (jointly with

Nippon Sharyo , formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan. In 1996, it abbreviated its name to "日本車両" Nippon Sharyō. Its shortest abbreviation is Nissha "日車". It was a listed company on Nikkei 225 until 2 ...

) serving the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1. *

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, Doha Metro *

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's Mass Rapid Transit system

Elsewhere

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* Qatar Rail, Qatar * Trans-Australian Express train coaches. * Alexandria, Egypt trams *

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: 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 Tasman Station (August 11th, 2005)

Green Line (MBTA) The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area. It is the oldest MBTA subway line, and with tunnel sections dating from 1897, the oldest subway ...

''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 DART rail

** Kinkisharyo-Mitsui LF LRV –

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, Seattle, Washington **

LF LRV – Phoenix, Arizona (entered service 2008) ** LFX-300 – marketed as AmeriTRAM™ and tested on Charlotte Area Transit System network in 2011. ** P3010 –

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, Los Angeles, California ** Life Extension work on

Hitachi Rail () is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo G ...

CQ311 series cars used by

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** 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

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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 ** 20200224 133656 M4024

Sub-urban ''"Toshiba"'' EMUs of

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(with

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's electrical equipments) *** For Sarmiento Line *** For

Mitre Line The Mitre line is an Argentine broad gauge commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Province and is part of the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre division. The service is currently operated by the State-owned company Operadora Ferroviaria Soci ...

*** For Urquiza Line *** For Roca Line * JR Group **

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(

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) ***

W7 Series Shinkansen ***

N700 Series Shinkansen The is a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train with tilting capability developed jointly by JR Central and JR West for use on the Tokaido and San'yō Shinkansen lines since 2007, and also operated by JR Kyushu on the Kyushu Shinkansen line. ...

*** 700 Series (Rail-Star) Shinkansen ***

500 Series Shinkansen The is a Shinkansen high-speed train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and San'yō Shinkansen lines in Japan since 1997. They were designed to be capable of but operated at , until they were fi ...

*** 100 Series (Grand Hikari) Shinkansen ** Shinkansen ( Central Japan Railway) ***

300 Series Shinkansen The was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type, with a top operational speed of 270 km/h (170 mph), which operated on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines in Japan between 1992 and 2012. When first introduced, they were used on t ...

*** 100 Series Shinkansen ** Shinkansen (

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) *** N700 Series Shinkansen **

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*** 313 series – Central Japan Railway Suburban Electric Train **

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*** E257 series – East Japan Railway Limited Express **

JR West , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and i ...

*** 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 The is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) on the Osaka Loop Line in Osaka, Japan, since December 2016. The trains replaced the ageing 103 series and 201 series trains. Design The eigh ...

– West Japan Railway Commuter Electric Train *** 681 series – West Japan Railway Company and Hokuetsu Express Limited Express ***

683 series The is a dual-voltage electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) and Hokuetsu Express on limited express services in Japan since 2001. Variants * 683-0 series (''Thunderbird'') * 683-1000 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 The , also referred to as , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu, Japan and the JR Kyushu Jet Ferry Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Str ...

*** 303 series – Kyushu Railway Commuter Electric Train ***

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– Kyushu Railway Suburban Electric Train * Private Railways in Japan **

Kintetsu Railway , referred to as , is a Japanese passenger railway company, managing infrastructure and operating passenger train service. Its railway system is the largest in Japan, excluding Japan Railways Group. The railway network connects Osaka, Nara, Ky ...

*** 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" KINTETSU50000 Formation

*** 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 is a railway operator in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Its sole line, officially named the , operates as an extension of the Midōsuji Line of the Osaka Metro. The , established on 11 December 1967, is majorly owned by Hankyu. ''Kitakyu'', as it is ...

*** 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 50 series may refer to: Electronics * HP 49/50 series, a type of graphing calculator made by Hewlett-Packard Trains * 1–50 series (CTA), a retired subway car type for the Chicago Transit Authority * EMD SD50, also known as "50 series", a ...

– 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 The , also known as , is a bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government which operates public transport services in Tokyo. Among its services, the Toei Subway is one of two rapid transit systems which make up the Tokyo subway system, the othe ...

*** 5300 series – Subway Cars for the Toei Asakusa Line ** Tokyo Metro *** 05 series – Tokyo Metro for Tozai Line and

Chiyoda Line The is a subway line owned and operated by Tokyo Metro in Tokyo, Japan. On average, the line carries 1,447,730 passengers daily (2017), the second highest of the Tokyo Metro network, behind the Tozai Line (1,642,378).Hiroshima Electric Railway is a Japanese transportation company established on June 18, 1910, that operates streetcars and buses in and around Hiroshima Prefecture. It is known as for short. The company's rolling stock includes an eclectic range of trams manufactur ...

*** LF LRV 5100 series **

*** 2000 series – Sendai Subway for Tozai Line ** Fukuoka Municipal Transportation Bureau *** 2000 series – Stainless Steel Electric Train Builder's plate of Kinki Sharyo 001

* Prototype(s) ** Smart BEST hybrid Battery electric multiple unit

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