Bogie Mounted Brake System for Wagons

Bogie Mounted Brake System for Wagons

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Bogie Mounted Brake System for Wagons

Bogie Mounted Brake System (BMBS) is a modular Braking system developed for use in Freight Wagons. The system is designed to meet Indian Railways specification. This system shall be fitted on new wagons and can be retro fitted on existing fleet wagons having maximum axle load of 22.9 tons.

The Bogie Mounted Brake System has the following features compared to the conventional brake system.

    Salient Features
  • Improved Braking Efficiency
  • Reduced weight
  • Less number of parts
  • Uniform brake shoe and wheel wear
  • Increased reliability
  • Easy maintenance
  • In-built automatic slack adjustment
  • Easy brake shoe replacement
  • Brake release and application indication
  • No manual intervention (until wornout condition)
    Application
  • All types of Railway Freight Wagons having maximum Axle load of 22.9 tons such as BOBRN, BOBRNHSM1, BOXN, BOXNHL, BCN, BCNA.
    Sub Systems
  • Primary & Secondary Brake beams
  • Brake Cylinder with Slack Adjuster having two variants - with handbrake and without handbrake
  • Escort Ratio Valve which performs as a Automatic Pressure Modulation (APM Device)
  • Rigging arrangement for hand brake system
  • Bell Crank Levers for load transfer
  • Piping arrangements
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