Patent ID: 8327773

Claim:
A railway vehicle in which a slide structure that slides in a rearward direction of a body of the railway vehicle at a time of collision is disposed at a front portion of the body, wherein the slide structure includes a slide end beam disposed at the front position of the body, and a slide center beam projecting rearward of the slide end beam, the body of the railway vehicle includes a guide portion that guides the slide center beam in a longitudinal direction of the body, and a holding member connected to the body such that the holding member holds the slide structure at the front position of the body by abutting a rearward end of the slide structure whereby the rearward end of the slide structure does not extend beyond the holding member at a most rearward point of the holding member, and the holding member has a unitary structure and is connected to the body of the railway vehicle in such an orientation that a load applied to the holding member by the slide structure is a tensile load and the holding member has such a tensile strength that the holding member couples the body and the slide structure to each other in the longitudinal direction of the body and the holding member is pulled apart in a direction longitudinal to the body of the railway vehicle and is broken when the tensile load in the rearward direction of the body applied from the slide structure to the holding member exceeds a preset tensile load, thereby permitting the slide structure to move in the rearward direction of the body.