Network Statement 2014 - ProRail

• or in another form to be agreed upon with ProRail.Applications for capacity on railway yards take the form of time/space slots at rail (section) level perrailway yard, including a description of any processes involved (shunting, inspections, cleaning, etc.).The address is:company:ProRail, One-Stop-Shoppostal address: Postbus 20383500 GA Utrechttelephone: +31 (0) 88 231 3456fax: +31 (0) 30 235 9474e-mail:oss@prorail.nlThe One-Stop-Shop is available to answer all your questions about capacity allocation.International applicationsThe railway undertaking can request the required capacity on these railway networks by means of asingle application submitted to the One-Stop-Shop of the country of departure or separately to theinfrastructure managers of the railway networks involved, whether or not through a partner railwayundertaking.If railway undertakings submit separate applications to various infrastructure managers, they assumeown responsibility for harmonisation of those applications. The role of the infrastructure managersinvolved is then limited to signalling connection problems.An international capacity application must comply with the conditions imposed by each of theinfrastructure managers with regard to capacity applications for their network, as worded in theirrespective network statements. If any of the infrastructure managers involved fails to accept aninternational capacity application submitted via ProRail, the latter will give the applicant an opportunityto change the application and to limit it to an application exclusively for capacity on the railwayinfrastructure managed by ProRail.IntakeApplications are checked on receipt for completeness and other apparent errors, such as conflictingelements, exceeding the usability of the infrastructure or deviations from the capacity applicationsagreed during the BHP phase. If necessary, the applicant is given an opportunity to makechanges/supplements to the application within a specified period of time.If the applicant, in its application, does not make explicit reference to specific user characteristics 54 ofthe requested capacity, ProRail can nevertheless allocate the capacity, on condition that the applicantapplies the standard values in terms of user characteristics. The standard values have been laid downby ProRail, taking into account the characteristics or user restrictions of the infrastructure.4.4.1.3.2 Scheduling and coordinationDuring scheduling, all applications are integrated in one timetable. In order to accept applications asbest as possible, ProRail can accommodate minor changes to the original application withoutdisturbing the commercial and logistical relationship, such to be determined by the titleholders. ProRailsubsequently identifies those situations in which applications compete with one another and/or withthe required capacity for work on or near the network, as well as the maintenance roster. ProRailstarts the coordination for those situations.ProRail seeks harmonisation with other infrastructure managers in Europe during the scheduling andcoordination process. The objective is to realise as many high-quality cross-border train paths aspossible. These measures are detailed in the RNE document “Process for international path requests”(see the website www.rne.eu).Process rulesThe scheduling and coordination procedures are subject to the process rules below.1 The identified competition situation is communicated to all applicants involved.54Such as train length, presence of dangerous goods, etc.Network Statement 2014 Combined Network - version 1.0 dated 9 January 2013 page 49