scope:

This standard applies to Infrastructure Investment and Infrastructure Maintenance (and all contractors working on their behalf) when applying for engineering access on the railway infrastructure. It also applies to NDS, responsible for granting and coordinating engineering access and to O&CS, responsible for managing the Network Rail interface with Train Operators.

Resource planning refers to those resources supplied by NDS. It includes the planning of engineering trains for maintenance, renewals and major projects activity but not the timing of these. It does not cover the planning and timing of WTT and amended train services for Network Rail's passenger and freight customers.

This standard does not mandate the detail of how work plans are developed within Infrastructure Group. Infrastructure Investment (I-I) and Infrastructure Maintenance (I-M) have their own work planning standards, compatible with the timescale and quality requirements contained in this standard.

Purpose

This standard describes the principles, key activities, timescales and required work plan information quality applicable to the planning of access and resources to support the delivery of maintenance, renewals and enhancement works on the railway infrastructure.