There are two types of braking system for railway vehicles,they are brake shoes and brake discs.
Brake discs can be mounted on the axles or on the wheels.So we call axle-mounted brake disc or wheel-mounted brake disc.
brake shoes is traditional clasp brakes.
Both are to reduce the speed or keep the railway trains still when they park.
Westinghouse air brake system
| Braking system | Train weight with engine tonnes | Train speed km/h | Stopping distance m | Time to stop s | Deceleration g | m/s2 |
| Westinghouse automatic | 206.5 | 84 | 278 | 19 | 0.099 | 0.97 |
| Clark hydraulic | 201.3 | 84 | 369 | 22.75 | 0.075 | 0.74 |
| Smith vacuum | 266.6 | 79.7 | 442 | 29 | 0.057 | 0.56 |
| Clark and Webb chain | 245.4 | 76.4 | 438 | 29 | 0.056 | 0.55 |
| Barker's hydraulic | 213.5 | 81.67 | 472 | 32 | 0.056 | 0.55 |
| Westinghouse vacuum | 207.4 | 84 | 527 | 34.5 | 0.052 | 0.51 |
| Fay mechanical | 189.1 | 71.6 | 355 | 27.5 | 0.057 | 0.56 |
| Steel & McInnes air | 200.5 | 79.7 | 488 | 34.5 | 0.051 | 0.5 |
| Price | Negotiable |
| Payment Terms | LC,TT |
| Leadtime | Negotiable |
| Production Capacity | 30000 |
| Packing | Pallet or Customized |
