Taiwan Rolling Stock Company (TRSC) is a rail vehicle company. TRSC is located in Hukou, Hsinchu County, near Xinfeng railway station. It was previously a rolling stock production division of Tang Eng Iron Works before 2002. After

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, the company received several orders from

Taiwan Railways Administration Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) was a governmental agency in Taiwan which operated Taiwan Railway from 1948 to 2023. It managed, maintained, and operated conventional passenger and freight Rail transport, railway services on of track. Pa ...

and also

Kawasaki Heavy Industries is a Japanese Public company, public multinational corporation manufacturer of motorcycles, engines, Heavy equipment (construction), heavy equipment, aerospace and Military, defense equipment, rolling stock and ships, headquartered in Minato, To ...

. For example, some vehicles (type C371, C381) of the

Taipei Metro Taipei Metro (also known as Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) and branded as Metro Taipei) is a rapid transit system operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation serving the capital Taipei and New Taipei City in Taiwan. It was the first rapi ...

system were built by TRSC. TRSC cooperated with

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in several products, such as DHL100, Alishan Forest locomotive, EMU700, EMU800. There was a dispute regarding the EMU800 at its beginning stage. The brake system differed from specifications because the supplier made a mistake on the type of brake system. After the dispute was solved, the TRSC started to deliver EMU800 trains to the

. On 29 May 2015, the TRSC delivered the 37th train to TRA, which marks a milestone of Taiwanese rail-vehicle industry. Furthermore, the TRSC is anticipated to be the future of manufacturing industry. In recent years, TRSC cooperated with Voith Engineering Services for the Danhai Light Rail Transit system. On 26 August 2015, TRSC got additional order of EMU800. The total number of this order is 48 cars. TRSC is now owned by China Steel Corporation since 2015. TRSC's products range from locomotives, cabs, EMUs, trams and it receives more and more orders from customers. It is one of the only companies that can design, manufacture and maintain rolling stock in Taiwan (some freight wagons are built and maintained by another company in DaHu near LuZhu in the North of Kaohsiung).

Products

* Taiwan Railways EMU1200 * Alishan Forest Locomotive 7th generation * DHL100 * Taiwan Railways EMU700 (with

) * Taipei Metro C371 (with Kawasaki) * Taipei Metro C381 (with Kawasaki) * Taoyuan Airport MRT commuter EMU (with Kawasaki) * Taiwan Railways EMU800 (with

) * Danhai LRV

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Taiwanese companies established in 2002 Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2002 Rolling stock manufacturers of Taiwan

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