NR NR/L1/RVE/0002 ISSUE 2 PDF

This Company Standard is applicable to Rail Vehicles and associated Rail Vehicle Safety Critical Engineering Systems, Products, Facilities and Services under the engineering management and control of Network Rail that:-

• Network Rail owns (including finance lease arrangements)

• Has an engineering responsibility for

• Hires-in from 3^rd parties (and has engineering responsibility for) – see Network Rail document RF/ENG/P/07 – "Chief Engineer's Rail Fleet Asset Engineering Policy".

This Company Standard is applicable to all Network Rail staff (including agents acting on behalf of Network Rail) involved in, or actively considering:-

• Maintenance of Rail Vehicles

• Use of Rail Vehicles

• Operation of Rail Vehicles

It is also applicable to the post delivery elements of new Rail Vehicles or rail vehicle projects, including warranty attention defects, strategic spares and retrospective work arising from deficiencies in original build activities.

Purpose

This Company Standard describes the processes for the maintenance, operation and use of Network Rail owned or hired Vehicles. This standard supersedes the Train Operations Manual chapters detailed in Appendix A. Compliance with the arrangements described in this Company Standard helps verify that:-

• Network Rail owned Rail Vehicles and Rail Vehicle safety critical engineering systems, products, facilities and services remain compliant with Statutory Legislation, the Network Rail Safety Management System (including Railways and other Guided Transport Systems Regulations 2006 (ROGS) and Railway Interoperability Regulations (RIR) Transition Supplement(s)), Railway Group Standards, Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs), Euro Norms (ENs) and other mandatory requirements.

• Appropriate organisational arrangements, including the skills and experience for key personnel, required within Network Rail for the engineering management and maintenance of Rail Vehicles are specified and put into place within maintaining and using departments or those specifying such services and facilities.

T• he requirements and detailed responsibilities for the qualification, management and audit of suppliers of safety critical engineering systems, products, facilities and services for use on Rail Vehicles and associated equipment, owned, leased or hired in by Network Rail such that the arrangements in place and compliant with Company and Industry requirements.

• An adequate competency management, training and assessment regime is in place to control and monitor the competence of both maintainers and users.

• The requirements for the reporting and monitoring of technical performance issues relating to the engineering management, maintenance and use of Rail Vehicles and associated equipment is put in place.

• Technical and assurance requirements underpinning the above are defined and discharged through various engineering requirements and specifications within this and related Company Standards NR/L1/RVE/0001 - "Design, Acquisition and Engineering Change of Rail Vehicles" and NR/L1/RVE/0003 - "Assurance, Performance and Monitoring of Rail Vehicles".

• Management of Rail Vehicle acquisition and/or engineering change is controlled in accordance with the principles for whole life asset management of Rail Vehicles document RT/ENGP/07 - "Chief Engineer's Rail Fleet Asset Engineering Policy" , and as prescribed by the Engineering Specifications list in the ‘Reference Documentation' of Company Standard NR/L1/RVE/0001 and this Company Standard.