00:00 Missed appointments or late to work,
00:02 common stories among thousands of Adelaide train passengers this morning.
00:06 I was to have a lovely day in the city with my future daughter-in-law,
00:11 who's just travelled interstate yesterday from Broken Hill,
00:15 and we were to go shopping today.
00:18 So she has been impacted by the delay.
00:21 Everyone was just kind of waiting for work, I think.
00:23 People were, like, kind of checking their watches and, like, "OK."
00:26 It was a particularly long commute for the unemployed,
00:29 and a long commute for the unlucky ones.
00:31 I got on at Mawson Lakes, and then, as we were going along,
00:35 it just kept stopping, starting, stopping, starting,
00:37 and then they told us that they're going to be stopping at the next station
00:39 and wouldn't be able to go again for another 30 minutes to an hour.
00:42 The reason - someone trying to steal copper cables.
00:45 Yeah, it's extremely disappointing that reckless thieves
00:48 try and steal rail-signalling cabling off our network at North Adelaide,
00:53 and unfortunately, those impacts had delays to our commuters this morning.
00:57 The department says thieves tried to use an electric grinder
01:00 to remove the 650-volt cables from this station at North Adelaide,
01:04 ultimately sending the network into safe mode
01:07 and bringing trains to a halt.
01:09 It says they're lucky to be alive.
01:11 At Hawker Street in Brompton,
01:13 there was no getting past the lowered boom gates.
01:15 The extent of the unfairness of that really gets to me.
01:18 It's not just stealing.
01:20 It's also hurting ordinary, everyday people
01:22 with massive disruption this morning.
01:25 The department says it'll be increasing security
01:27 and ensuring more cameras are installed
01:29 to prevent illegal activity in future.
01:32 Authorities say the piece of cabling had very little financial value.
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