Telford Steam Railway volunteers left heartbroken after vandals smash signal box
Volunteers at Telford Steam Railway are heartbroken after vandals targeted their line.
Workers at the railway were called to the site on Monday and discovered damage to a signal box's brickwork, smashed windows, and graffiti sprayed across the room.
Workers at the railway were called to the site on Monday and discovered damage to a signal box's brickwork, smashed windows, and graffiti sprayed across the room.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00So Doug, unfortunately the signal box got trashed by vandals so you must have been
00:05pretty disappointed to see that. Oh devastated as I say we were the first
00:10people in there for three years after we found the keys for it and when we walked
00:17in it was pristine it was like it was it was brilliant and then we walk in the
00:23other day and find that every window every frame paint daubed everywhere
00:29been smashed to pieces all the the wooden gear that connected from one
00:36station or one box to another box had all been smashed and thrown all over the
00:41floor so we're totally devastated and it's it's now gonna cost the trust a lot
00:48of money to put back right then we've got to close it all off so that nobody
00:54else can get in there so we're talking a few thousand pounds to just to put it
00:59back into the condition that it was and that comes from a non-profit
01:02organization as well run by volunteers yeah it does I mean none of us are paid
01:08down here it all contributions the railway cost forty thousand pounds a
01:13year to run just to to stop level and then everything else is from donations
01:20so that is really gonna bite into our little kitty that we have and it stops
01:27us moving forward on other projects to repair a project that that was finished
01:32basically