Telford Steam Railway volunteers left heartbroken after vandals smash signal box

Shropshire Star

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.

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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

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