Rodalies: A brand new cable theft interrupts railway circulation between Manresa and Calaf | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

A brand new copper cable theft this morning between Manresa and Calaf (Barcelona) has brought about the interruption of railway circulation this Wednesday between the stations of those cities resulting from lack of voltage, sources from Adif and Renfe have reported.

The railway infrastructure supervisor has indicated that Adif technicians are working to resolve this incident as quickly as attainable. For their half, Renfe sources have indicated that the incident impacts the trains on line R12 and that the corporate has enabled a bus service to cowl this route.

On May 12, the day of the Catalan elections, the theft of 60 double meters (120) of metallic in Adif brought about the best harm in latest occasions within the Cercanías community, with no practice that might attain Barcelona and a breakdown which can take a while to be utterly resolved. One of the measures pursued by the police on May 12, the day of the Catalan elections, when the theft of 60 double meters (120) of metallic in Adif brought about the best harm in latest occasions to the Cercanías community, with none practice that might attain Barcelona and a breakdown that may nonetheless take time to be utterly resolved. One of the measures pursued by the police is to acquire restraining orders for thieves, 75% of whom have prior data, from the practice tracks. They thus search a better penalty (breach of a precautionary measure) than theft or theft with pressure. They have additionally warned that they are going to strengthen controls on the recoverers, and accuse 10% of the union of collaborating with criminals, from whom they purchase the stolen copper.

On May 24, the Mossos d'Esquadra introduced the arrest of 4 folks, whom they accuse of being linked to 6 catenary thefts, together with the one which paralyzed the Renfe Rodalies community on May 12 in Catalonia. The brokers had been already on the path of the group, three males and a lady, for this sort of theft on the Adif community of the Barcelona-Montcada line. When the theft occurred in Montcada Bifurcació on the day of the Catalan elections, which brought about a sequence response, with a number of fires, that paralyzed the Rodalies line, the police instantly thought-about them suspicious. The arrests had been precipitated final Wednesday, when non-public safety guards from Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat caught two of them stealing.

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