Nippon Sharyo

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
日本車輌製造株式会社

Type	Public
Industry	Railways
Founded	Japan, September 1896
Headquarters	Nagoya, Japan
Key people	Akira Nakagawa, President & CEO, Katsuyuki Ikushima, Chairman
Products	Rolling stock
Employees	1,751 (September 2010)
Website	www.n-sharyo.co.jp

Nippon Sharyo rolling stock factory in Toyokawa, Aichi

Nippon Sharyo built Odakyū 50000 series VSE EMU

Taiwan Shinkansen series 700T, made by a consortium including Nippon Sharyo

Caltrain bi-level car

Highliner II car

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. (日本車輌製造株式会社, Nippon Sharyō Seizō Kabushiki-gaisha^?), (TYO: 7102), 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 2004. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange as ticker 7102. In 2008, JR Central became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central.^[1]

Notable projects

Japan

• Shinkansen (bullet train) trainsets
  • 0 Series
  • 100 Series
  • 200 Series
  • 300 Series
  • 500 Series
  • 700 Series^[1]
  • N700 Series
  • 700T Series
  • E2 Series

• Japan - Odakyu Electric Railway trainsets
  • Odakyū 50000 series VSE
• Linimo magnetic levitation train

Brazil

• Porto Alegre Metro EMUs

Canada

• Toronto Transit Commission work cars
  • RT22 Flat car 1973
  • RT13 Centre cab crane 1968
  • RT10 Garbage car 1967 - Tokyo Rose
• GO Transit (Metrolinx) Air Rail Link DMUs

Philippines

• Manila Light Rail Transit System

Singapore

• Singapore MRT EMU

Taiwan

• Taiwan Railway Administration
  • EMU700 local/commuter train
  • DMU3100 express train
  • Tilting trains^[2]

USA

• Northern Indiana South Shore Line EMUs
• Maryland MARC Train single-level push-pull coaches
• Los Angeles Metro LRVs
  • P850
  • P2020
• Chicago Metra bi-level gallery cars^[3]
• Virginia VRE bi-level gallery cars
• San Francisco Bay Area Caltrain bi-level gallery cars
• Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit DMUs^[3]
• Highliner rail car

Venezuela

IFE EMUs Working on Caracas-Cua commuter line Sistema Ferroviario Ezequiel Zamora (Central)

Wartime involvement

Nippon Sharyo-built C56 31 preserved at Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo

Nippon Sharyo, in 1936, built steam locomotive number C56 31, which was used in 1943 to open the infamous Thai-Burma Railway built by over 100,000 Allied POW and other slave laborers. This restored steam engine now sits in the foyer of the Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo. Japanese veterans groups raised funds to return the locomotive from Burma to Japan in 1979.

During World War II, Nippon Sharyo, like many major Japanese companies, drew upon prisoner of war labor to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labor for Nippon Sharyo.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "JR Central takes majority stake in train builder". Railway Gazette International. 1 October 2008. http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/jr-central-takes-majority-stake-in-train-builder.html. 
2. ^ "Taiwan Railway Administration orders tilting trains". Railway Gazette International. 6 January 2011. http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/taiwan-railway-administration-orders-tilting-trains.html. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Sonoma-Marin orders commuter DMU cars". Railway Gazette International. 20 December 2010. http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/single-view/view/sonoma-marin-orders-commuter-dmu-cars.html. 
4. ^ Narumi POW Camp Retrieved 27 June 2010.

External links

• Official website (English)