Railway vehicle bodies and methods of manufacturing them.

摘要

A railway vehicle body has an underframe (3) with a pair of bogie bearings at B adjacent opposite ends of the body, two side structures (2) each including a plurality of window openings in a row, a roof structure (4) and two end structures (5). The side structures (2) each comprising a plurality of laminated panels (10) welded to each other and each having a pair of metal face sheets sandwiching a metal core, the face sheets being joined to the core by metal-to-metal bonding. The body including a longitudinally continuous extruded metal eave panel (20) having inner and outer plates connected together by longitudinally extending webs. The eave panel is welded at one side to a continuous row of the panels (10) of the adjacent said side structure. The eave panel (20) extends continuously at least between bogie bearing points B. High rigidity and simplicity of construction are achieved. <IMAGE>