Common use of Severe Weather Resilience and Service Disruption Clause in Contracts

Severe Weather Resilience and Service Disruption. Without prejudice to SRT’s obligations in paragraphs 8 and 9, any obligation in this Schedule 1.2 on the part of SRT to use all reasonable endeavours to operate railway passenger services shall include an obligation to:- 10.1 co-operate with the Authority and/or SRH in its resilience planning including without prejudice to the foregoing generality: - (a) attending (whether in person or remotely), at the Authority’s and/or SRH’s request, meetings of the Multi-Agency Response Team (or similar response group) at the Scottish Government’s Resilience Room or otherwise; and (b) engaging with the Scottish Government’s preparedness initiatives relating to Winter conditions and severe weather; 10.2 make such adaptations to the Train Fleet, other equipment or facilities essential to the provision of railway passenger services and Stations as are reasonably necessary to respond to repeated and prolonged periods of severe weather (be it winter weather or otherwise); 10.3 put in place arrangements for emergency staff availability to respond to repeated and prolonged periods of severe weather (be it winter weather or otherwise); 10.4 use weather reports and forecasts to plan for disruption and to make decisions on when to implement its Resilience Plan; 10.5 co-operate with Network Rail, Associates and other Train Operators to provide support to each other, make staff available to each other and pass timely, accurate and detailed information about disruption to each other including attendance at Gold and Silver Command locations; 10.6 use best practice with regards to planning for severe weather including such adaptations as referred to in paragraph 10.2; 10.7 ensure that each Station and Depot is equipped with the necessary equipment to help railway passenger services to continue in severe weather; 10.8 comply with its Resilience Plan and any information Published and provided to passengers as to how SRT will operate in such events save where the best interests of the passengers would be better served by departing from the same; and 10.9 comply with the obligations in paragraph 11.

Severe Weather Resilience and Service Disruption. Without prejudice to SRTthe Franchisee’s obligations in paragraphs 8 and 9, any obligation in this Schedule 1.2 on the part of SRT the Franchisee to use all reasonable endeavours to operate railway passenger services shall include an obligation to:- 10.1 co-operate with the Authority and/or SRH in its resilience planning including without prejudice to the foregoing generality: - (a) attending making an appropriately trained manager available to attend (whether in person or remotely), at the Authority’s and/or SRH’s request, meetings of the Multi-Agency Response Team (or similar response group) at the Scottish Government’s Resilience Room or otherwise; and (b) engaging with the Scottish Government’s preparedness initiatives relating to Winter conditions and severe weather; 10.2 make such adaptations to the Train Fleet, other equipment or facilities essential to the provision of railway passenger services and Stations as are reasonably necessary to respond to repeated and prolonged periods of severe weather (be it winter weather or otherwise); 10.3 put in place arrangements for emergency staff availability to respond to repeated and prolonged periods of severe weather (be it winter weather or otherwise); 10.4 use weather reports and forecasts to plan for disruption and to make decisions on when to implement its Resilience Plan; 10.5 co-operate with Network Rail, Associates and other Train Operators to provide support to each other, make staff available to each other and pass timely, accurate and detailed information about disruption to each other including attendance at Gold and Silver Command locations; 10.6 use best practice with regards to planning for severe weather including such adaptations as referred to in paragraph 10.2; 10.7 ensure that each Station and Depot is equipped with the necessary equipment to help railway passenger services to continue in severe weather; 10.8 comply with its Resilience Plan and any information Published and provided to passengers as to how SRT the Franchisee will operate in such events save where the best interests of the passengers would be better served by departing from the same; and 10.9 comply with the obligations in paragraph 11.