Patent ID: 7506590

Claim:
A railway vehicle junction system comprising: a coupling device which couples a first railway vehicle and a second railway vehicle; a passage between the first railway vehicle and the second railway vehicle, the passageway including (i) at least two gangway bellows each of which have a plurality of bellows frames which have bottom edges, (ii) at least one passage plate, and (iii) a passage plate support which supports the at least one passage plate; a sliding plate on which the passage plate support is adapted to move, the sliding plate being disposed between the first railway vehicle and the second railway vehicle above the coupling device; a first anti-climbing protective device having an upper edge and a lower edge, wherein the first anti-climbing protective device extends essentially over the entire width of the first railway vehicle and is located on an end region of the first railway vehicle; and a second anti-climbing protective device having an upper edge and a lower edge, wherein the second anti-climbing protective device extends essentially over the entire width of the second railway vehicle and is located on an end region of the second railway vehicle; wherein the bottom edges of the bellows frames are positioned above the upper edges of the first and second anti-climbing protective devices and the sliding plate is positioned under the lower edges of the first and second anti-climbing protective devices.