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.
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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