Improving to a passenger car body to ensure reliability of its fastening on a railway ferry

Abstract

Increased competitiveness of passenger rail traffic led to putting into operation of rail ferry services. A feature of such transportation is the ability of wagons carriage by sea on special ships - railway ferries. Formerly, passenger cars were loaded on the deck by transferring them from the track of the ferry complex to the ferry tracks with hoisting devices. And now the cars are loaded on the train ferry by rolling over the passing (loading) ramp, which has considerably shortened the loading/unloading operations. Recently train ferries have been equipped with special fastening brackets for passenger car bodies. Each body is fixed with six brackets (three at each side).