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Rail disruption after £100K worth of cable stolen (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What do thieves do with the cables? Like how are they selling it and who's buying high voltage overhead rail wires?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

They sell it to metal scrap recyclers who will then melt it down, and sell it back to industry for use.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_theft

I think copper is the most common one that's stolen.