IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO RAILWAY VEHICLES

摘要

A railway vehicle including at least one wheelset connected to a vehicle body by way of a lateral suspension arranged to allow said wheelset and its supporting structure to yaw relative to said body, the suspension including a pair of parallel load bearing arms extending longitudinally of the vehicle pivotally connected at one end to the wheelset supporting structure and at the other end to the ends of a transverse member secured to said vehicle body so as to be free to yaw relative thereto, the said arms together with the wheelset and the transverse member forming in plan view a variable parallelogram linkage permitting lateral and yawing movement of the wheelset and its supporting structure relative to the vehicle body.