Service facility

Installation comprising ground area, buildings and equipment, specially designed, wholly or partly, to allow the supply of one or more services: passenger stations, their buildings and other facilities; freight terminals; marshalling yards and train formation facilities, including shunting facilities; storage sidings; maintenance facilities; other technical facilities, including cleaning and washing facilities; maritime and inland port facilities linked to rail activities; relief facilities; and refuelling facilities, including the supply of fuel in these facilities. The boundary of the service facility is the point at which a railway vehicle leaving the service facility cannot pass without authorisation to access the principal railway line (see A.I-03.1) or other similar line. This point is usually identified by a signal. Tracks in service facilities are included in publicly accessible sidings. Rail infrastructure in ports (often outside the scope of principal infrastructure managers), connected to the main railway network and open to public traffic, should not be counted as length of ‘lines’ (see A.I-01.5) but as length of ‘tracks’ only.