January 10, 2005

On the right track

Thieves steal underground track


    Czech police are investigating after more than 1,000 feet of railway track was stolen from the Prague underground.

Police say they suspect a group of homeless people were behind the theft of the track in the Czech capital's Prague 10 district.

They said the 12 tons of track would have been worth about £1,500 on the scrap metal market, local media reported.

Not quite reminiscent of A J Deutsch's outstanding (and under-anthologised) story "A Subway Named Möbius", but still quite an interesting problem of logistics.

Posted to transit by salim at 11:21 AM