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Title: Rail journeys in south Wales disrupted by cable theft - 3 April 2014 Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 04, 2014, 01:49:36 From the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-26866822):
Quote Rail journeys in south Wales disrupted by cable theft (http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73996000/jpg/_73996447_railcable.jpg) The cable was found burnt out in a wood Rail commuters faced disruption on Thursday morning following the theft of railway cables in south Wales. Arriva Trains Wales said signal failure hit the Valleys network causing a number of services to be cancelled. Buses replaced trains between Radyr and Cardiff Queen Street stations and the firm said Cardiff Bus was accepting train tickets. The firm said on Twitter that it and Network Rail were "doing our best to get services back to normal". Arriva Trains Wales tweeted that the cable stolen which had been stolen from an area in the north Cardiff had been found burnt out in a wood. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |