Abstract: The invention relates to a brake installation for railborne vehicles comprising at least one wheel axle driven by a coupled motor-transmission unit in which the unit is connected by directly meshing gears for driving the wheel axle in a manner avoiding an intermediate gear, preferably by way of a hollow shaft concentrically enveloping the wheel axis. The wheel axle or the hollow shaft is connected to a disc brake shaft by directly meshing gears, without intermediate gears for transmitting a driving force to a disc brake provided on that side of the wheel axle which is opposite to the unit, wherein the brake disc is fitted on a brake shaft arranged parallel to the wheel set axle and to the motor shaft mounted on two sides to the motor-transmission unit.