1. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 1

2. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 2 Purpose, Background and Introductions Aidan Nelson Director, Policy and Strategic Initiatives Rail Safety & Standards Board

3. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 3 House Keeping Fire Procedure Use of mobile phones and pagers Toilets This is a no smoking building Presentations may be accessed on http://www.nir-online.net Please return your name badges after the event Please give name and affiliation when asking questions

4. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 4 Purpose Raise awareness, brief changes and next steps with the forthcoming launch of the application NIR-Online Meet the team involved with the development and delivery of NIR-Online

5. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 5 Introduction The briefing will cover –Background to NIR –Requirement for NIR-Online and the role of NCC –Perspectives of: Train manufacturers and maintainers TOCs as examples of duty holders –Visual demonstration of NIR-Online –Way forward –Questions for the Panel –Conclusions

6. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 6 Progress to Date February 2003: Joint Network Rail and ATOC submission to change GE/RT8250 to mandate a web-based system May 2004: Formation of NIR User Group July 2005: RSSB authority August 2005: Software Development contract awarded to Interfleet Technology Ltd September 2005 - Ongoing: Software development 26 February 2006: NIR-Online launch

7. Bringing NIRs into the 21 st Century NIR-Online: A Briefing to Industry Stakeholders 7 Introducing the NIR-Online User Group Set up to reflect the industry requirements and strategic issues relating to NIRs User Group members are: –Rebeka Sellick, Engineering Director, ATOC –Steve Deadman, National Current Operations Manager, Network Rail –James Collinson, Senior Rail Vehicle Engineer, Network Rail –Mick Underwood, Services, Bombardier –Simon Ayres, Project Manager, RSSB –Mark Zawisza, Software Development Manager, ITL –Simon Perkin, Project Manager, ITL