Hopper car
The hopper car is designed for transportation of cement in bulk and a number of other construction and granular goods that require protection from atmospheric precipitation across the entire railway network of Belarus, the CIS and the Baltic states, with loading through the upper hatches and gravity unloading through the lower unloading hatches into the inter-rail space in special receiving devices.
Parameter | Unit of measurement | Meaning |
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Track width | mm | 1520 |
Load capacity, not more than | T | 72,5 |
Tare weight | T | 21±0,5 |
Maximum calculated static load from the wheelset on the rails | kH | 230,5 |
Length along the coupling axes of the automatic couplers, not less than | mm | 12020 |
Length of the car frame on the end beams | mm | 10800 |
Body volume | m3 | 63 |
Structural speed | km/h | 120 |
Base | mm | 7800 |
The height of the car from the level of the rail heads | mm | 4400 |
Car width | mm | 3230 |
Height of the auto-coupling axis from the level of the rail heads | mm | 1040-1080 |
Overall size according to GOST 9238 | 1-ВМ | |
Number of discharge hatches/dimensions of discharge hatches | unit/mm | 4 /500х400 |
Number of loading hatches/dimensions of loading hatches | unit/mm | 4 /Ø620 |