, 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. The facility closed at the end of October 2018 due to a lack of orders.
Notable projects
Shinkansen ("bullet train") trainsets
0 series
100 series
200 series
300 series
500 series
700 series
N700 series
E2 series
Odakyu Electric Railway trainsets
Odakyu 1000 series
Odakyu 2000 series
Odakyu 3000 series
Odakyu 4000 series
Odakyu 30000 series EXE
Odakyu 50000 series VSE
Odakyu 60000 series MSE
Odakyu 70000 series GSE
Linimo maglev train
Keisei Electric Railway trainsets
Keisei 3000 series
Keisei 3050 series
Keisei AE100 series
Keisei AE series
Nearly all Meitetsu trains
Roca Line
Toshiba EMU
Buenos Aires Underground
Nagoya 250/300/1200 series (Retired in 2019) Nagoya 5000 series
SuperVIA Série 500
Porto Alegre Metro EMUs
Toronto Transit Commission work cars
RT10 Garbage car 1967 – Tokyo Rose retired in 2000 and scrapped
RT12 Electric locomotive 1968 (design similar to JNR Class DE locomotive), retired 2009 and scrapped RT13 Centre cab crane 1968 – with car and crane cabs RT22 Flat car 1973 – formerly wash car RT-17 and rebuilt 1996 RT54 flat car 1973 Union Pearson Express Diesel Multiple Units Nippon Sharyo DMU (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation) 2014
Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1 (jointly with Kinki Sharyo) LRTA 1200 class
Singapore MRT EMU
C751B
C151
Taiwan Railway Administration
EMU700 local/commuter train
EMU800 local/commuter train
DMU3100 express train
TEMU 2000 Tilting trains
Taipei Metro
Taipei Metro C371
Taiwan High Speed Rail
THSR 700T
Next Generation Bi-Level Passenger Rail Car
Los Angeles County Metro Rail P865 and P2020
Northern Indiana South Shore Line EMUs
Maryland MARC Train single-level push-pull coaches (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation) Bi-level gallery cars for Chicago Metra, Virginia VRE, and San Francisco Bay Area Caltrain Highliner bi-level EMUs for Metra and South Shore Line Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit Nippon Sharyo DMU (jointly with Sumitomo Corporation)
I.F.E EMUs Working on Caracas-Cua commuter line Railway System Ezequiel Zamora (Central)
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) 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
Wartime involvement
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.