Railcar for passenger transport

Abstract

This railcar is of the type comprising: carriages including two driving carriages and intermediate carriages; carrier bogies, motor bogies comprising at least one motor axle; traction drives which are capable of supplying electrical energy to the motors of the motor bogies. According to one feature of the invention, all the carriages have passenger compartments, the railcar is completely articulated, the traction drives are arranged in three carriages and a motor bogie is arranged below at least one end of each carriage which receives a traction drive.

1 . Railcar for passenger transport comprising:
 two driving carriages and intermediate carriages,   carrier bogies,   motor bogies, which comprise at least one motor axle, wherein:
 the carriages are all mutually articulated in pairs, 
 the railcar comprises three or four traction drives, one traction drive being arranged in each driving carriage and at least one traction drive being arranged in a single intermediate carriage, 
 a motor bogie is arranged below at least one of the two ends of the driving carriages, 
 a motor bogie is arranged below at least one of the two ends of the intermediate carriage which comprises at least one traction drive. 
   
   
   
       2 . Railcar according to  claim 1 , wherein each traction drive drives at least one motor axle of the motor bogie(s) which is/are arranged below one end or below the two ends of each carriage in which the traction drive is arranged. 
   
   
       3 . Railcar according to  claim 1 , wherein it further comprises, between the intermediate carriage comprising at least one traction drive and each of the driving carriages, at least one intermediate carriage which has no traction drive. 
   
   
       4 . Railcar according to  claim 2 , wherein it further comprises, between the intermediate carriage comprising at least one traction drive and each of the driving carriages, at least one intermediate carriage which has no traction drive. 
   
   
       5 . Railcar according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one intermediate carriage which has no traction drive is supported at least at one of the two ends thereof by a carrier bogie. 
   
   
       6 . Railcar according to  claim 2 , wherein at least one intermediate carriage which has no traction drive is supported at least at one of the two ends thereof by a carrier bogie. 
   
   
       7 . Railcar according to  claim 1 , wherein the carriages are double deck. 
   
   
       8 . Railcar according to  claim 2 , wherein the carriages are double deck. 
   
   
       9 . Railcar according to  claim 3 , wherein the carriages are double deck. 
   
   
       10 . Railcar according to  claim 4 , wherein the carriages are double deck. 
   
   
       11 . Railcar according to  claim 5 , wherein the carriages are double deck. 
   
   
       12 . Railcar according to  claim 6 , wherein the carriages are double deck.