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There’s nothing worse than travelling and
nding your trip delayed.
Whether it be roadworks, delays because of
foreign air tra c strikes, or more pertinently
these days, train journeys interrupted by thieves
stealing cables from the rail network.
It’s easy to see that the thieves are after making a
quick buck when copper is selling at £6,200 per
tonne. (January 2011).
However, they receive only a pittance from the
copper and the cost of the repairs will, inevitably,
be passed on to the train user.
An example of this is that two Newark,
Nottinghamshire, UK, men stole just a fewmetres of
signallingcable fromthemainEdinburgh toLondon
line. They got £44 each for their e orts – and three
years in prison once they had been caught.
The other side to this was that that single theft
caused delays to more than 100 trains, chaos to
the travellers and landed Network Rail with a
£75,000 bill to make the repairs. All that for £44!
Network Rail suggests that cable thefts from its
lines has cost somewhere in the region of £35m
during the last four years.
There is a spin o from this as well. It seems
crooks – sometimes organised gangs of them
– are targeting electricity, gas connections and
telephone wires as well in their hunger for copper.
It is therefore refreshing to see the police and
rail networks joining forces in a bid to beat the
criminals (Stopping the cable thieves, page 9).
That clampdown has had to come. The use of
SmartWater to trap the thieves nally gives
the authorities the
evidence they need
to stop these thefts.
Let us hope the
courts hand down
severe
enough
justice to deter them
even more.
David Bell
Editor
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Getting Smart in the fight
against the copper criminals
EuroWire – July 2011
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