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I had to call the train people a few weeks ago to inform them that thieves had stolen all the green and yellow cable from a station.

Way back when I used to travel to school by train we had one day when the jounrey was very slow and then we sat outside the station for about an hour. We were then told that all the delays were due to somebody having stolen the signaling cables at Harpenden! That would have been somewhere around 1978.