抄録
At the start of Japanese National Railway's transport from Tokyo to Yokohama in Oct. 1872, 58 wooden carriages were imported from England. In May 1874, another national railway started transport from Osaka to Kobe and 83 wooden carriages were prepared. In Feb. 1877, the latter national railway was extent to Kyoto. In Meiji era of Japan, wooden carriage construction had been continued by using imported parts and materials at Shinbashi and Kobe works of Japanese National Railway. It called as 'The Imperial Government Railway of Japan (IGRJ)'. Trainers of these works were all English railway engineers in 1880's. Many wooden carriages were designed and constructed by Japanese trainees. They took imported wooden carriages for model. Same methods were taken by other main Japanese private railway's works as Nippon Railway, Sanyo Railway and so on. Some private rolling stock builders started their business in Meiji era. There were high level Japanese technology and skill which accumulated through wooden furniture making and ship construction down to Edo era in the carriage construction. In this report, results on the technology transfer between English-made and home-made wooden carriage were explained. For the purpose of our research, we used famous rolling stock documents 'JAPANESE RAILWAYS LOCOMOTIVES CARRIAGES WAGONS AND CROSSINGS &C. &C. 1893' called as 'Blue-Printings'. These documents were compiled by an English railway engineer Mr. Francis Henry Trevithick (1850-1931) with Japanese railway officers in Meiji era.
