Network Statement 2014 - ProRail

d. Refuelling at a railway yard subject to an environmental permit must take place inaccordance with the relevant provisions.3.4 Rail safety3.4.1 PlanningThe railway undertaking will ensure that rolling stock stabled on decommission tracks is removedbefore the start of the possession. Rolling stock may only be left stabled on decommissioned tracks inthe cases below.• The network manager has indicated in RADAR that such as possible in combination with the workto be carried out, and• the railway undertaking has arranged in its VMS that the measures agreed upon with the networkmanager through the Allocation Table are carried out when the rolling stock is immobilised and cutoff from traction power supply, unless supplementary agreements have been laid down in writingin RADAR. The agreed measures are communicated to the railway undertakings through theAllocation Table.• If it is ascertained during the preliminary consultations that the organisation of supplementarystabling capacity is required, the railway undertaking and the network manager will in consultationdetermine how and under which conditions supplementary stabling capacity with the correctfunctionality will be made available.3.4.2 Use of drag shoes and stop blocksThe railway undertaking will use drag shoes exclusively for the braking and halting of railway vehiclesduring gravity or fly shunting 100 . The railway undertaking will on completion of the gravity or flyshunting process remove all used drag shoes from the tracks. To prevent the drifting of stabled railwayvehicles, use is made of the vehicle's parking or hand brake. Wooden or plastic stop blocks may beused as an alternative.4 Disasters and external safety4.1 Disasters and train incidents 1014.1.1 General responsibilities and agreements with railway undertakings1. The network manager and the railway undertaking will maintain an operational, tactical andstrategic on-duty organisation that is modern, well-trained and accessible/available 24/7:a. In response to disasters.b. For the operational performance of prevention and preparation measures for disasters with aview to lowering the vulnerability of the rail sector (e.g., in case of increased risk of terrorism,snow/ice or other extreme weather conditions).2. The railway undertaking will in consultation make personnel and equipment available for thedisaster drills to be organised by the network manager, for which the latter can requestinfrastructural capacity in accordance with Chapter 3.5 of the Network Statement.3. The railway undertaking and the network manager will agree on a consultation structure tocoordinate matters at operational, tactical and strategic level.4. The railway undertaking is responsible for providing the Network Manager with any informationthat could facilitate effective assistance in accordance with Article 4.2.3.7 of the TSI Operationsand Traffic Control and Section 4 Rail Traffic Decree. Which information is required and how it willbe provided is determining consultation with the network manager 102 . Such will in any eventinclude information:a. To prepare for disaster response:100 Insofar as these shunting practices are permitted in the applicable local environmental permit.101 See Network Statement § 2.8 and 3.4.1102 This included in the individual disaster response agreements as an Appendix to the Access Agreement.appendix 6 Operational ConditionsNetwork Statement 2014 Combined Network - version 1.0 dated 9 January 2013 page 120