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Old June 24th 10, 07:51 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Massive Disruption at Paddington

On 24 June, 07:43, "Kev Lawrence"
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"CJB" wrote in message

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On Jun 23, 9:41 pm, "

wrote:
On 23 June, 19:45, CJB wrote:


On Jun 23, 7:05 pm, SB wrote:


Trains cancelled to Worcester. Trains cancelled to Wales and West
Country. Trains cancelled to Oxford and Bourne End and also to Henley.
All other trains subject to huge delays. Reason = 'signalling
problems' in the West Drayton area from last night = 'vandalism' in
the Iver area = Pikeys cut the signal cables to burn off the plastic
and sell the copper. SB


Is there not a way that a spare core or two of the cable could carry a nice
deterrent voltage to stop this?

(probably banned cos of elf n safety!)

Kev


It is banned, in fact it's downright illegal, it's called "setting a
man-trap". But you could put the functional 650v supply in the same
cable.