Kinki Sharyo

DART Dallas

VTA San Jose

Seattle light rail

Kinki Sharyō KK ( Japanese 近畿 車輛 株式会社 Kinki Sharyō Kabushiki kaisha ; English The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese railway manufacturer based in Osaka Prefecture . The company was founded in 1920 as Tanaka Sharyō (English Tanaka Rolling Stock Works , Tanaka Zugbau), registered in 1939 as a stock corporation ( kabushiki kaisha , KK, English here Co., Ltd. ) and in 1945 in Kinki Sharyō ( The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd . ) renamed. The company has produced many tram and light rail systems for various transport companies around the world.

The company's headquarters are in the city of Higashiōsaka .

customer

The following transport companies operate trains from Kinki Sharyo:

• Boston MBTA
• San Jose VTA Light Rail
• Dubai Metro
• New Jersey Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and Newark City Subway
• Dallas Area Rapid Transit : DART Light Rail
• Hongkong Kowloon-Canton Railway (with Mass Transit Railway since 2007 )
• Singapore Mass Rapid Transit system
• Cairo Metro
• Japan Rail
• Philippines Manila Light Rail Manila
• Phoenix METRO Light Rail
• Seattle Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail (in joint venture with Mitsui )

Web links

Commons : Kinki Sharyo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website (Japanese, English)
• Kinki Sharyo United States