Prison for thieving rail workers who stole track worth £1.5m

[stephenholmes]

Good afternoon everyone
This news item has been published in Manchester Evening News
Kind regards Stephen
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... -worth-15m

[TransportSteve]

Thanks for this Stephen, funny it's taken so long for the prosecutions to reach Court, Jarvis Rail was wound up last year, as my mate was transferred to Network Rail. Mind you, it took them 8 years to appear in Court over the Potters Bar accident.

Cheerz. Transport Steve.

[FoggyMorning]

That's an awful lot of track

Wonder how they planned to dispose of it; there aren't many places railway track can have come from, so unless the scrap dealer was in on the act (and from the article, they do not appear to have been) it wouldn't seem to take too much to suspect something fishy (no mention of fishplates there! )

[curate]

...so unless the scrap dealer was in on the act (and from the article, they do not appear to have been)...

...officers discovered 200 tonnes of Network Rail track at a scrap dealers ...

What rails, officer? Oh, that 200 tonnes of rails, officer... Yeah, these guys told me they'd had them in their shed for years, officer...

I'm sure I believe that there are such things as naive scrap dealers. No, really, I am sure.

David

[jbilton]

Hi

If I remember this was theft on a grand scale, involving the hire of articulated lorries over a number of weekends.
In fact I believe it was only through the hire of these vehicles that the thieves were eventually traced.
Network Rail had not noticed the thefts.

However at a 'lower level' the problem is causing much more misery to many ordinary citizens.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... pyard.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... hefts.html

We have many of these 'scrap' men floating round the area .... unfortunately encouraged by my lazy neighbours leaving items out for them to collect.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/21165


http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/406

Cheers
Jon

[CaptainBazza]

How ironic, they got clapped in irons.

Cheers Bazza