The invention discloses a railway vehicle. The railway vehicle comprises multiple bogies and a vehicle body, wherein each bogie is provided with a railway concave part suitable for straddling on a railway, and a first avoidance slot and a second avoidance slot used for respectively avoiding the railway are formed in each bogie; the vehicle body is connected with multiple bogies and is pulled to travel along the railway by multiple bogies, the vehicle body comprises multiple carriages which are sequentially hinged along the length direction of the railway, multiple carriages form at least one carriage group, the carriage group comprises three carriages which are sequentially hinged, only carriage bottom parts at the two ends of the carriage group in the three carriages are respectively connected with the bogies, and in the length direction of the railway, an escape door which can be opened and closed is arranged on the surface, back to adjacent carriage, of the carriage of at least one end of the vehicle body. According to a structure, beneficial to optimization of an escape channel, of the railway vehicle of the embodiment of the invention, cost, occupying space and load born by the railway can be conveniently reduced, the stability can be improved, complete and firm protection can be formed with the railway, security during running is improved, and steering is flexible and cost is low.