The invention relates to electrically driven rolling stock (3,7), comprising at least one electric motor and a system (9) for receiving electric power from an electrical-supply line (11). Also provided is an emergency generator (13) and a system (49,25,27)...

The self propelled rail locomotive has a drive compartment containing an electric motor (1) powered from a fixed supply network (2) or from a generator (4) driven by an internal combustion engine. The generator and engine can be attached to a mounting (5) ...