Wagon wheels are used for the bogies of railway freight wagon, running with general speed and high carry capacity. The type of brake is treading brake. Wagon wheels are commonly used in form of casting and roiled steel production and the wheel disks are mostly in the form of S and basin types.

It is used for railway passenger vehicle bogies. The running speed is generally >120km/h. The wheel load is small. The common braking method is axle disc brake or wheel disc brake. The metro wheels are mostly forged wheels. The web type has S type, double S type and straight plate. Commonly used manufacturing standards are TB/T 2817/2708, AAR M-107, BS 5892-3, EN 13262, and the like.

The split wheel is composed of wheel center, wheel tyre and locking unit. The wheel tyre is the outerside ring of the wheel and is equivalent to the rim and tread of the integral wheel. Wheel tyre are often assembled on the wheel center by a hot sleeve process. Commonly used manufacturing standards for wheel tyres are GB-T 8602, TB/T 1882, AAR M-107, BS 5892-4, and the like.

Locomotive wheels are used for the bogies of railway passenger and cargo vehicles. Commonly, locomotive wheel diameter is large (more than 1000) and has small carry capacity.

The travel wheel is different from the common railway wheel and is often used for the transportation of workpieces under normal working conditions, and the running speed is slow. The diameter of the wheel is generally small, the tread surface is mostly in the form of a straight line, and the double rim type is adopted. Special heat treatment are used to improve the hardness of the wheel tread. The wheel is usually made of alloy structural steel.

With the development of city rail traffic, noise of light rail vehicles running in urban areas or on the viaduct has become a prominent issue of light rail traffic Equipped with a resilient wheel through the elastic element between the core wheel and tyre, tyre elastic support on wheels, so it can effectively reduce the noise and reduce the impact of rail curve and reduce the wheel rail wear and improve the service life of the vehicle lines. As an effective noise reduction curve measures using elastic wheels in light rail vehicles and low floor trams, inter city trains, subway vehicles are widely used