Network Statement 2021 – July 2021 edition
traction current;
pre-heating, climatisation and use of REC charging points for maintenance/cleaning of passenger trains and water supply to trains;
monitoring trains carrying dangerous goods;
services for exceptional transports;
marshalling operations;
assistance to passengers with reduced mobility (PRM);
parking;
fast-track platform access.
d) Ancillary Services RFI, as the operator of the service facilities, may, at the request of the railway undertakings, provide, at fair, nondiscriminatory and transparent conditions, the ancillary services as follows:
supply of additional information;
access to the GSM-R telecommunications network for ground-to-train communication services.
Without prejudice to the principle of non-discrimination, RFI, as the service facility operator, is not under the obligation to provide the ancillary services.
5.2
MINIMUM ACCESS PACKAGE (UPDATED IN DECEBER 2018)
Handling rail infrastructure capacity requests for the purpose of concluding the access contracts This includes all the preliminary activities needed to conclude the Contract:
checking whether the RU holds the prescribed requirements, licence, entitlement document and safety certificate, with reference to the period of validity of the contract; receipt of requests and verification of their consistency with the characteristics of the railway infrastructure; verification of the availability of the requested capacity and related confirmation; drafting and notification of the detailed working timetable; economic development of the train paths; drafting of the Contract and formal allocation of the train path.
Each Contract shall specify the total access charges and any costs for the electrical power supply and services. Right to utilise the allocated capacity Comprises the activities needed to ensure:
as regards the lines: - their availability for transport services; - their quality, meaning the performance characteristics of the infrastructure, needed to utilise the allocated train path. as regards passenger stations: - the availability of arrival/departure tracks for the time needed to carry out the technical and commercial services: a) in the ePIR portal for the origin/destination stations; b) in the allocated train paths for all the intermediate stations. as regards the connection facilities with the external networks: - compliance with the maximum stopping times for international freight train services as indicated in ePIR portal.
However, any exceptions entailing an exceedence of the restrictions stated in the ePIR portal, with regard to the origin/destination stations – as a result of the IM’s needs, in respect of the overall working timetabling operations, or of any technical/organisational and commercial needs of the RU strictly related to the scheduling of the services – 125
