BTFLN Rakes Parked At Tuljapur.
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A BTFLN Rake Being Parked At Tuljapur Railway Station 52 KM Away From Ajni.
BTFLN is an Improved frameless bogie tanker wagon, successor to the venerable BTPN . Used primarily for liquid petroleum products (petrol, naphtha, kerosene, diesel, furnace oil, etc.), and also for vegetable oil and other liquid cargo. The BTFLN wagon was developed by RITES...
more... in collaboration with Azovmash of Ukraine. The tankers are frameless and have no center sill. The tractive and buffing forces are taken up by the barrel body itself, so that it is subject to biaxial stresses. The tare weight is lower than that of the BTPN by nearly 3.5t, and the payload is higher for the same axle load. The payload to tare ratio rises to 2.4 with this tanker.Inside diameter of tanker is 2.85m. CASNUB 22 NLB bogies, CBC non-transition couplers. BTPN variants are air-braked.
Tare-23.53t
Payload-57.75t / 76m3
Axle load-20.32t
Length over headstock-11.491m
Length over coupler faces-12.42m
Height-4.265m
Width-3.126m
Distance between bogie centres-8.391m