| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a railway vehicle enabling a quick stopping of the travel of the vehicle in an off chance where one end portion of a propeller shaft disengages itself, resulting in the shaft falling toward the ground.SOLUTION: A railway vehicle 1 includes a diesel engine 10, a transmission 12, a brake apparatus 14 an engine control apparatus 11, a transmission control apparatus 13, a brake control apparatus 15 and a vehicle body circuit 21 capable of outputting control instructions to these control apparatuses 11, 13, 15. The railway vehicle 1 comprises: a propeller shaft 40 of which both end portions 40a, 40b are connected to the transmission 12 and a speed reducer 33 of a carriage 30; and a fall prevention frame 50, mounted to a carriage frame 20a of the vehicle body 20, for preventing the propeller shaft 40 from touching the ground. The railway vehicle 1 also includes a fall detection device 60 for detecting that the propeller shaft 40 falls toward the ground, and a notification device 70 for notifying a driver of the falling of the propeller shaft 40 on the basis of the detection by the fall detection device 60.</p> |
