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#1
9th July 2007, 19:20
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Cable thefts cause railway chaos (BBC News)
Thousands of rail commuters are delayed as thieves steal copper cables from a track near Leeds.
More from BBC News... 
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10th July 2007, 19:12
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Some 20 years ago (good grief
 ) I worked for one of the telecom companies that was laying the then new fibre optic telecom trunk cables along the lineside. There was a regular problem of our cable being dragged out of the cable troughs to be laid across the running line for the next train to cut it into handy pieces for carrying off. Problem is that fibre optic cable is all glass and is worthless, so they would just leave it and walk off in disgust. However once it was damaged someone then had to splice 1000 tiny hairlike glass strands back together. A really tedious job. There was also a regular problem of the cable being cut "somewhere in the north of England" at 4.30pm precisely every Friday. Of course that would mean that a whole lot of Lookouts and Flagmen and PICOWS etc would be needed for a extra spot of Saturday Overtime, while the poor old telcom engineer glued the cable back together. I seem to recall that the cable was strangely never cut when ******* United were playing at home. They did find the ringleader eventually.
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10th July 2007, 19:29
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Hi All years ago I worked for Eastern electricty and most of the copper cable was phased out. I don't know what the new cable was made from I think it was some kind of alloy. So why go back to using more expensive copper cable.
Alan Locojoe.
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12th July 2007, 19:13
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As for the copper cable:- It was probably still the same cables that were laid back in the 1970's 
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13th July 2007, 01:28
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