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« on: September 02, 2022, 16:08:51 »
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2022, 20:07:52 »
Someone must have tracked the vehicle.  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2022, 07:05:30 »
Quote from: paul7575 on September 02, 2022, 20:07:52
Someone must have tracked the vehicle.  Grin

No ................... the Police just had a line of enquiry  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2022, 07:11:05 »
Quote from: Electric train on September 03, 2022, 07:05:30
Quote from: paul7575 on September 02, 2022, 20:07:52
Someone must have tracked the vehicle.  Grin

No ................... the Police just had a line of enquiry  Grin

Reading the article, they had a heavy weight of evidence
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« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2022, 07:16:35 »
Track and trace!
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« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2022, 11:12:24 »
The police must have had a tip off from a sleeper inside the gang !
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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2022, 11:39:14 »
Thinking the bend in the flat bed of that vehicle is a bit of a telltale.

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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2022, 12:51:24 »
Steeling is wrong.
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« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2022, 19:15:12 »
That's got me railing against the perpetrators.
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« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2022, 06:23:32 »
From the Banbury Guardian

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Rural police return stolen train tracks to Network Rail

Does that mean we can have our full Cross Country train service back now, please?
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« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2022, 07:29:00 »
........what's the railway equivalent of "Can oi tarmac your drive sor, I've got a bit left over from the motorway so I have"?  Wink
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