{"id":81430,"date":"2023-11-21T09:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/?p=81430"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:30:01","slug":"elizabeth-line-turns-to-aarcps-for-business-readiness-and-infrastructure-maintenance-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/elizabeth-line-turns-to-aarcps-for-business-readiness-and-infrastructure-maintenance-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth line turns to AARCPS for business readiness and infrastructure maintenance support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rail consultancy AARC Professional Services Limited<\/a> has helped the maintainer of London\u2019s Elizabeth line prepare to take on its new responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established by seasoned rail operator Steve Derrick in 2015, AARCPS is a rail consultancy, specialising in rail operations, projects & engineering, safety & assurance and training, with all of its associates time served, long term railway professionals, most having worked together previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AARCPS was engaged by Rail for London Infrastructure (RfLI) to independently assess its maintenance business readiness when it was appointed to take on the role of Elizabeth line Infrastructure Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explained AARCPS Associate and project lead Derek Mason: \u201cWe were tasked with producing a report on each maintenance business areas\u2019 readiness for taking over the railway at ROGS – Railways & Other Guided Transport Systems Regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe assignment was then extended to support Crossrail\u2019s hand-over of stations, portals and rail wide systems by assuring the necessary information and training was sufficient to enable the maintainer to mobilise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acting as sponsor\u2019s representative, Derek helped achieve the business benefits through project delivery of a fault reporting system link between operational control systems and Maximo (the maintenance work bank system), which enabled operators to initiate a response team directly from the control system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since entering revenue service, AARCPS has also been working with the heads of departments to improve the concept of the RTIM (Real Time Infrastructure Manager) working 24\/7 on the control floor, as well as continuing to support the Elizabeth line\u2019s Infrastructure Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endorsing AARCPS\u2019s support, Jon Jarrett, Elizabeth line Head of Infrastructure Maintenance for RfLI, said: “Derek joined the team to support the delivery of robust infrastructure maintenance products that would be reviewed formally as a core input into the Railway Safety Assurance Case, required to bring the Crossrail Project into passenger use as the Elizabeth line. This was also the first use of Common Safety Method (CSM) regulations and the first digital railway to be commissioned in the UK, with the infrastructure maintenance products the \u2018first of type\u2019 in the UK – new, novel and measured against a new set of industry requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs such, Derek didn\u2019t just provide support – he led, shaped, improved and drove the production, ensuring that all agencies had the opportunity to input and comment, whilst offering solutions and fixes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rail consultancy AARC Professional Services Limited has helped the maintainer of London\u2019s Elizabeth line prepare to take on its new responsibilities. Established by seasoned rail operator Steve Derrick in 2015, AARCPS is a rail consultancy, specialising in rail operations, projects & engineering, safety & assurance and training, with all of its associates time served, long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81434,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81430\/revisions\/81434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.railbusinessdaily.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}