A railway vehicle comprises a cab 1, with a drivers region and rear and front doorways, a front gangway 20 and a coupler (23 fig 8). The cab comprises movable panels including door 13 and wall 10, 11 panels. The panels have a stowed configuration in which the door panels close off the front doorway and the wall panels are stowed against the cab walls, and a deployed configuration in which the panels wall off a passenger corridor between the doorways and the drivers region is inaccessible to passengers in the corridor. The door panels may seal the front doorway to prevent wind, water and noise entering the cab. The panels may be hinged and may include a control panel 12 hinged to move between the drivers region and part of the corridor wall. The panels may be multi-folding. There may be a second mans region and both the drivers and second mans region may have escape doors 16, 17. The panels may include a slope flap 21 which, in the stowed configuration, may be stowed in the gangway behind the door panels and, in the deployed configuration, may be movable across the front doorway forming a slope.
Railway vehicle with front gangway
13.12.2017
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
IPC: | B61D Einzelheiten oder Arten des Wagenaufbaus von Eisenbahnfahrzeugen , BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES |