Harsco Rail’s Universal Vehicle is a 4-axled bogie car, primarily used for transporting deployment personnel, as a workshop, and for the manipulation of components using lifting devices attached to the end of the vehicle.
The vehicle is equipped with a personnel and workshop module, furthermore it has dual mode (diesel-electric and electric-electric traction system), an automatic coupling system, ETCS and remote control.
The Universal Vehicle is part of a fleet of 31 maintenance vehicles Harsco Rail built for the SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) to maintain the world biggest train tunnel, the “Gotthard Base Tunnel”.
