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  2. Train wheel - Wikipedia

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    A train wheel or rail wheel is a type of wheel specially designed for use on railway tracks. The wheel acts as a rolling component, typically press fitted onto an axle and mounted directly on a railway carriage or locomotive , or indirectly on a bogie (in the UK), also called a truck (in North America).

  3. Wheelset (rail transport) - Wikipedia

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    Most train wheels have a conical taper of about 1 in 20 to enable the wheelset to follow curves with less chance of the wheel flanges coming in contact with the rail sides, and to reduce curve resistance. The rails generally slant inwards at 1 in 40, a lesser angle than the wheel cone.

  4. Railway tire - Wikipedia

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    Worn tires or tires with flats are reprofiled on a wheel lathe if there is sufficient thickness of material remaining. A damaged railway tire was the cause of the Eschede train disaster, when a tire failed on a high-speed Intercity Express train, causing it to derail and killing 101 passengers.

  5. List of railroad truck parts - Wikipedia

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    An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.

  6. Mansell wheel - Wikipedia

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    The Mansell Wheel is a railway wheel patented by Richard Mansell, the Carriage and Wagon superintendent of the South Eastern Railway in the UK. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] The design was created in the 1840s and was eventually used widely on passenger railway stock in the UK.

  7. Comparison of train and tram tracks - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal (cone-shaped) rim makes contact with the slightly convex top of a steel rail in different (horizontal) places so that the outer wheel has a larger effective diameter than the inner wheel. With both tram and train wheels, this happens naturally because the tires are cone shaped sloping surfaces: the inside diameter is a few ...

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  9. Rubber-tyred metro - Wikipedia

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    The bogies of the train include railway wheels with longer flanges than normal. These conventional wheels are normally just above the rails, but come into use in the case of a flat tyre, or at switches (points) and crossings. In Paris these rails were also used to enable mixed traffic, with rubber-tyred and steel-wheeled trains using the same ...