Rail passengers are reaping some great benefits of years of labor to tackle the problem of metal theft at the railway. Network Rail was working with partners within the railway and from other essential infrastructure industries to tackle this crime which, at its peak, caused greater than 6,000 hours worth of delays to trains in one year. As a consequence of these efforts, delay was down a combined 2,700 hours in 2012/13. Across the North West and West Midlands, the full choice of cable theft incidents fell substantially by 36%, from 150 to 96 in the course of the same period. In 2010/11 the year within which the best variety of incidents were recorded the figure for the North West and West Midlands reached 196. Neil Henry, head of operations...
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