BOGIE FOR A RAILWAY VEHICLE COMPRISING BRAKING SYSTEM COMPRISING THREE BRAKE DISKS ARRANGED IN BETWEEN THE AXLE BEARINGS

摘要

The bogie for a railway vehicle comprises a chassis; an axle mounted rotatably relative to the chassis around a transverse rotation axis, at least one wheel being mounted on each of the transverse end parts of said axle, a braking system comprising three brake discs mounted around the axle, arranged in the space defined between the wheels, and three brake forks acting on a brake disc, comprising a pair of arms extending between first and second ends, the second ends each bearing a brake pad forming a pair of brake pads, each of the pairs of brake pads being positioned around part of a brake disc, and two successive pairs of brake pads extending on either side of the rotation axis. The first ends of the arms all extend on a same side of the rotation axis.