scope:

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)

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

Many of the requirements of this standard have been migrated to a new Level 1 standard NR/L1/RMVP/0001 - "Network Rail's Plant and T&RS Policy" which details only the high level requirements (e.g. the "What" needs to be done) for Network Rail Plant and Traction and Rolling Stock (T&RS).

However, there are many lower level requirements (the Who, When Where and How elements) that still need to remain in force until they are incorporated into a lower RMVP standards. This amended standard underpins the new Level 1 Policy and highlights (by strikethrough, see Key to Changes on page 2) which high level requirements have been transferred or are no longer required and which lower level requirements still remain in force for the management of Network Rail, Rail Mounted Vehicles and Plant.

This Company Standard describes the processes for the maintenance, operation and use of Network Rail owned or hired Vehicles and is supported by NR/L2/RMVP/0090 - Management of Maintenance for T&RS, OTMs and OTP.