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Friday 10 Jun 2011

DISRUPTION TO TRAIN SERVICES TO AND FROM WATERLOO ON THURSDAY 9 JUNE

Region & Route:

| Southern: Wessex

| Southern

Robin Gisby, Network Rail’s managing director of network operations said: “There was an attempted cable theft at a substation at Farnborough last night which resulted in a complete loss of the signalling in the Farnborough and Woking area. This resulted in a very difficult journey and a lot of frustration for thousands of passengers who travel on the line into and out of Waterloo, with a significant number of trains delayed or cancelled.

 

“Cable theft and other forms of vandalism are serious crimes with significant consequences. These criminals continue to deny passengers the service they rightly expect and, through the massive cost to the industry, deny everyone improvements to rail services. We are doing everything we can to protect the railway and will continue to work closely with British Transport Police and other rail partners to do everything in our power to deter thieves and bring those who attack our network to justice.”

Anyone with any information about cable theft should contact British Transport Police or Crimestoppers where they can report the crime anonymously and could receive up to £1,000 reward if their information leads to a conviction.

BTP can be contacted on 0800 40 50 40 and Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111