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Old July 4th 12, 09:20 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Railway workers jailed for stealing £1.5m worth of track to sell for scrap


"mechanic" wrote in message
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 04:51:08 -0700 (PDT), SB wrote:

Railway workers jailed for stealing £1.5m worth of track to sell for
scrap

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/903975-r...sell-for-scrap


Wow, used rusty rails are worth, what is it, 7.5k a tonne? What are
they made of?


It beats me why a massive tidy up isn't launched to gather up all the old
bits of rail and other substantial metalwork that is left alongside the
tracks after a maintenance job.

There must be money in all that metal, otherwise why would the rascals take
such a pleasure in "recycling" it.

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Brian
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