Method for producing railway wheel and railway wheel

A railway wheel, comprising

• a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %,
• C:
• 0.86 to 1.15%,
• Si:
• 1.00% or less,
• Mn:
• 0.10 to 1.25%,
• P:
• 0.050% or less,
• S:
• 0.030% or less,
• Al:
• 0.025 to 0.650%,
• N:
• 0.0030 to 0.0200%,
• Cr:
• 0 to 0.60%, and
• V:
• 0 to 0.12%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, the railway wheel comprising:
• a hub part,
• a rim part including a tread and a flange, and
• a web part disposed between the hub part and the rim part, wherein
• in the microstructure of the hub part, the area fraction of pearlite is 95% or more, and the amount of pro-eutectoid cementite defined by Formula (A) is not more than 1.0 pieces/100 μm,
• in the microstructure of the web part, the area fraction of pearlite is 95% or more, and the amount of pro-eutectoid cementite defined by Formula (A) is not more than 1.0 pieces/100 μm, and
• in the microstructure of the rim part, the area fraction of pearlite is 95% or more, and the amount of pro-eutectoid cementite defined by Formula (A) is not more than 1.0 pieces/100 μm:
• where Formula (A) is given by amount of pro-eutectoid cementite (pieces/100 μm)=a total sum of the number of pieces of pro-eutectoid cementite which intersect with two diagonal lines in a square visual field of 200 μm×200 μm/(5.66×100 μm), where 5.66×100 μm is equal to a total length of the two diagonal lines.