Tram/Light Rail Vehicles

David Brown designs highly integrated bespoke tram drive solutions that incorporate our customers’ need for compact, reliable and safety critical components. In addition to full and half height tram designs, we also custom design gearboxes for 70% and 100% low floor trams to meet modern requirements for low floor vehicles.

Key Features

• Option of wheel mounted or axle mounted gearboxes designed to suit our customers’ specific interfaces and technical requirements
• Gearbox designs from 60-100KPH
• Durable, case hardened and profile ground gears to reduce noise
• All tram gearboxes are tested thoroughly following final assembly

Specification

• A range of gear options including double reduction, single hypoid bevel and single bevel reduction
• High performance bearings selected to cope with the arduous rail operating environment
• Input traction torque from 170Nm to 2100Nm and beyond
• Differential equipped to minimise wheel slip on tight radii track curves

• Service and repair for all brands of tram and light rail vehicle gearbox