Train for children's narrow-gauge railway

Train for children's narrow-gauge railway

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Designer

Dmitry Nazarov

11.2013

Overview

Studio Ippiart by order of the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering designed the locomotive and wagons for a children's narrow-gauge railway. The diesel locomotive designed for driving a passenger train through the territory of children's park, and teaching children the basics of locomotive control, the work of its systems and constructions.

 

 

 

Operation features are reflected in the organization of the driver workspace. The cabin has a large glass area and a reverse slope windshield that provides good visibility on the track and hitch.

 

 

 

Two seats are installed in the cockpit: for the student and the instructor. Student’s workplace is equipped with three multi-functional touch screen, which can display the speed, different train systems, images from surveillance cameras which are replaced the rear view mirrors, and from other cameras in the passenger salons. Instructor's workplace is equipped with an emergency stop button.

Passenger cars designed to carry children in the park together with the accompanying, have open interiors with the arrangement of chairs along the windows and with central sofa, opposite the large panoramic windows.

The passenger compartment and driver's cab equipped with heating and air conditioning systems. The locomotive and cars are designed to work with any standard platforms. To be able to use with the "low" platforms provides the retractable stage.

 

Specifications
Locomotive 
Gauge750 mm
Cross-section standard GOST 9720-82TU
Body materialSteel/Fiberglass
Engine power310 h. p.
Transmission typeHydromechanical
Maximum speed50 km/h
Axial formula2-2
Minimum curve radius40 m
Weight of the locomotive in the service state20 t
Load from the wheel pair to the track5 t
Length on the hitches axes11040 mm
Body length10716 mm
Width 2300 mm
Height3340 mm 
Wheel base6500 mm 
Wheel diameter610 mm 
  
Wagon 
Gauge750 mm 
Cross-section standard GOST 9720-82TU 
Body materialSteel/Fiberglass 
Number of seats24 
Number of axes
Construction speed50 km/h 
Wagon tare weight 12 t
Lenght on the hitches axes11110 mm
Body length 10200 mm
Width2300 mm
Height3340 mm
Wheel base7000 mm
Wheel diameter610 mm