Nippon Sharyo

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
日本車輌製造株式会社
Public KK
Traded as TYO: 7102
NAG: 7102
Industry Railways
Founded Japan, September 1896
Headquarters Nagoya, Japan
Key people
 Tsutomu Morimura (President & CEO), Mikio Tsuge (Senior Managing Director of Nippon Sharyo, Ltd and Chairman of Nippon Sharyo USA, Inc.)
Products Rolling stock
Number of employees
 1,751 (September 2010)
Website www.n-sharyo.co.jp, www.nipponsharyousa.com
Nippon Sharyo rolling stock factory in Toyokawa, Aichi
Nippon Sharyo builder's plate
Nippon Sharyo built Odakyu 50000 series VSE EMU
Taiwan Shinkansen series 700T, made by a consortium including Nippon Sharyo
Caltrain bi-level car
Highliner II car
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) rolling stock, Nippon Sharyo DMU

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, 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.[1]

Notable projects

Japan

Argentina

Brazil

Canada

Philippines

Singapore

Taiwan

USA

Venezuela

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

Indonesia

Rheostatic series (The train was also made by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi):

All Rheostatic EMU are stopped operating in the Jabodetabek lines and waiting it's time for being scrapped.

Shinko Diesel Multiple Units for short distance line like Surabaya-Lamongan, Surabaya-Sidoarjo, etc.

Note: The DMU built in 1976 and 1980 are now used as regular loco-hauled trains without engines. The DMU made in 1982 upwards are refurbished with Cummins Engine.

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, 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 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 labour to maintain war production. The POW camp at Narumi provided Allied POW forced labour for Nippon Sharyo.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "JR Central takes majority stake in train builder". Railway Gazette International. 1 October 2008.
  2. ↑ http://www.n-sharyo.co.jp/business/tetsudo_e/pages/zsingapole.htm
  3. ↑ "Taiwan Railway Administration orders tilting trains". Railway Gazette International. 6 January 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Sonoma-Marin orders commuter DMU cars". Railway Gazette International. 20 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Narumi POW Camp Retrieved 27 June 2010.
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