Lotus effect washing machine

A washing machine for a railway vehicle, the washing machine comprising:

• a water texturing system, mixing appropriate particles with water to produce textured water having super-hydrophoby properties, said appropriate particles being microbeads of fluorinated glass, lycopodiums, or soot;
• and
• a textured water spraying system, fed by the water texturing system and using at least one appropriate spraying device to spray the textured water on a surface of a railway vehicle to be cleaned,
• wherein the water texturing system includes a clean water reservoir and a particle container, as well as a water texturing machine capable of mixing a clean water supplied by the clean water reservoir with particles supplied by the particle container to produce the textured water, and
• wherein the water texturing machine includes a tank, the bottom of which is filled with the clean water, and a drum, rotated using a motor, and one wall of which is provided with cells allowing the clean water to circulate between an inside and an outside of the drum, the particles being introduced from the container to the inside of the drum, the cells being smaller than the particles so as to keep the particles inside the drum.