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Nippon Sharyo
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Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. (日本車輌製造株式会社, Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha; literally "Japan Rolling Stock Manufacture Company" and formerly known outside Japan as Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.), formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock, heavy equipment, generator, special purpose vehicle and bridge 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, Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central. In July 2012 Nippon Sharyo USA started production in their new facility in Rochelle, Illinois. The facility closed at the end of October 2018 due to a lack of orders.[1][2]

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Nippon Sharyo rolling stock factory in Toyokawa, Aichi
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Nippon Sharyo builder's plate
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Kawasaki-Nippon Sharyo builder's plate on a C151 Train (Singapore MRT)
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Nippon Sharyo builder's plate on a C751B Train (Singapore MRT)
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Nippon Sharyo built Odakyu 50000 series VSE EMU
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Taiwan High Speed Railway series 700T, made by a consortium including Nippon Sharyo
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Caltrain gallery car
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Highliner II car
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Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) rolling stock, Nippon Sharyo DMU
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EMU Linea General Roca Argentina
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Singapore MRT C751B
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State Railway of Thailand C56 SL
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State Railway of Thailand THN DMU
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Hejaz railway CX50 SL
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 Japan

 Argentina

 Brazil

 Canada

 Philippines

 Singapore

 Republic of China

 United States

 Venezuela

I.F.E EMUs Working on Caracas-Cua commuter line Railway System Ezequiel Zamora (Central)

 Indonesia

Rheostatic series (KRL Rheostatik Mild Steel and Stainless) (The train was also made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi):

  • Built 1976: Has 2 doors and uses mild steel body types
  • Built 1978,1983,1984: Has 3 doors and uses mild steel body types
  • Built 1986,1987: Has 3 doors and uses stainless steel body types

All Rheostatic EMUs have stopped operating in the Jabodetabek lines and is currently waiting to be scrapped.

Shinko Diesel Multiple Units (a.k.a. KRD MCW 301 and KRD MCW 302[circular reference]) are used for short-distance lines such as Surabaya-Lamongan, Surabaya-Sidoarjo, etc.

  • KRD MCW 301 Built 1976: Has 2 doors and uses mild steel body types
  • KRD MCW 302 Built 1978,1980,1982,1987: Has 3 doors and uses mild steel body types

KRD MCW 301 and 302 initially uses the Shinko DMH17H engine and Niigata TCR 2.5 transmission

Note: The DMUs built in 1976 are now used as regular loco-hauled trains without engines. The DMUs made in 1978, 1980, & 1982 upwards are refurbished with a Cummins Engine (NT885-R) and Voith turbo (T211re.3) transmission.

The new rolling stock, known as the MRTJ 1000, was built specifically for the Jakarta MRT[8]

 Thailand

  • State Railway of Thailand
    • SL
      • C56 (Numbers 715-716 and 723-729 or formerly owned by Japanese Government Railways, numbers 17-18 ,28 ,30-32 ,34 and 36-37 In 1979, Japan asked to buy back the steam locomotive C56, number 725, original C56 31, back to its homeland of Japan. It is on display at the Yūshūkan Museum. But there are traces of having been used in Thailand. The driver's cab has the number 725 and the transport vehicle has Thai letters (ร.ฟ.ท.) SRT.)
      • DX50 (Numbers 351-352 and 363-364)
      • CX50 (Numbers 288-292 ,821-834 ,837-841 and 850)
    • DMU
      • RHN (jointly with Hitachi)
      • THN (Numbers 1128-1140)
      • NKF (Numbers 1201-1212 and 1217-1224)

 Jordan

Five Pacific locomotives were built by Nippon Sharyo for the State Railway of Thailand in 1953 to the same design of Pacific locomotives introduced in 1942 and 1949 for the railway, but were never delivered. Later, they would be allocated to the Jordan Hejaz Railway (JHR) after a conversion to 1050mm gauge and renumbering to nos. 81-5.[9]

  • CX50 (Numbers 81-85)
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Other Products

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Nippon Sharyo LD3 Unit Load Device
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Buffer Stop manufactured by Nippon Sharyo together with Kayaba Industries

Diesel Generators

Transport Equipment

Bridges

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Wartime involvement

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

Nippon Sharyo, in 1936, built the JNR Class C56 steam locomotive number C56 31, which was used in 1943 to open the infamous Thai-Burma Railway, as stylized in the movie The Bridge Over the River Kwai, built by over 100,000 Allied POW and other slave labourers. This restored steam engine now sits in the foyer of the Yasukuni War Museum in Tokyo. Japanese veteran groups raised funds to return the locomotive from Thailand to Japan in 1979.

During World War II, Nippon Sharyo, like many major Japanese companies, drew upon prisoner of war labour to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labour for Nippon Sharyo.[10]

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