Ballast spreading and profiling machine USP 403 ZW

Track-laying – Profiling

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The USP 403 ZW reballasting machine forms the required standard ballast profile in tracks and points. The machine fills, profiles and sweeps the track. It has brush shafts for all track forms and a silo for holding ballast and a dust preventing spraying facility.

Ballast spreading and profiling machine USP 403 ZW Grafik

Functional Characteristics

  • Surplus ballast is collected in the silo (capacity: 3 m³) and is metered back onto the track as needed
  • Automatic traverse restrictors of the side ploughs prevent the standard track clearance envelope from being exceeded
  • The direction of work can be changed on paved crossings
  • Flexible deployment in the construction schedule
  • Road-rail machine
  • Transported on track or on a low loader
  • The machine is loaded onto the low loader truck or from the low loader truck onto the track using its own machine hydraulics
  • Automatic safety device, ATW/​ATS and train radio telecommunication system
  • Dust-preventing spraying facility

Technical specifications

Overall weight 33 t
Height above top of rail 3.300 mm
Length over buffers 14.200 mm
Number of axes 2
Engine output 300 kW
Maximum self-propelled speed 65 km/​h
Ballast silo capacity 3 m³
5 adjustable middle plough settings Traverse restrictor for plough on multiple-track lines n Yes

Performance parameters

Track maintenance performance 1.000 m/​h
Track renewal performance 800 m/​h
Working radius ≥ 150 m
Running radius ≥ 105 m
Working in cant max. 180 mm