Motorized railway vehicles

In combination with the body of a self-propelled high speed rail vehicle having a frame member, a bogie arrangement which includes:

• at least one driving bogie supporting said body including an underframe, each bogie comprising a transverse beam and two longitudinal substantially parallel beams laterally spaced from each other and forming with said transverse beam an H configuration, at least one electric motor having a housing and a rotor drivingly connected to said at least one driving bogie, each bogie having at least one motor-driven driving-wheel set drivingly connected to one said motor, each driving-wheel set including an axle and wheels supported thereby, each bogie supporting the body through a secondary suspension and having a common pivot point with said body, the rotor of the motor being connected via gearing and a cardan quill shaft drive having flexible articulated bearings to the driving wheel set, a plurality of swing links pivotally connected to said motor and pivotally supporting the respective motor for oscillation in a direction transverse to the respective bogie, and each bogie also comprising at least one link means pivotally connected to said adjacent motor for transmitting forces acting in the longitudinal direction of said bogie and absorbing said forces, said motor being held by at least three vertical swing links in the space between the wheel set axle and the transverse beam to be capable of transverse oscillation on the underframe of the body and the longitudinal forces of said motor being transmittable by at least one link of considerable longitudinal extent from the housing of said motor to the adjacent frame member of the vehicle.