Wheel for railway vehicle

A wheel for a railway vehicle, the wheel comprising:

• a boss that forms an inner circumferential portion of the wheel and into which an axle of the railway vehicle is to be inserted;
• a rim that forms an outer circumferential portion of the wheel, the rim including:
• a tread to come into contact with a top surface of a rail on which the railway vehicle travels;
• and a flange that is connected to one end of the tread in an axial direction of the wheel and protrudes outward from the tread in a radial direction of the wheel;
• and
• a web that has an annular shape and connects the boss and the rim, wherein
• a center of the rim in the axial direction is positioned on the flange side with respect to a center of the boss in the axial direction,
• a plate-thickness center line of the web has a linear shape in cross section including a central axis of the wheel, and is inclined with respect to the radial direction in such a way as to be farther from the flange as the plate-thickness center line extends outward in the radial direction, and
• when a distance in the axial direction from one side face of both side faces of the rim in the axial direction, whichever is farther from the flange than the other side face, to an outer end of the plate-thickness center line is taken as “Pw”, the outer end being one end of both ends of the plate-thickness center line, whichever is positioned more outward from the other end in the radial direction, and a length of the rim in the axial direction is taken as “Wr”, Pw/Wr is less than 0.40.