Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of overhead cables cut by thieves at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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