{"id":790914,"date":"2026-10-03T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790914\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:12:12","slug":"swr-services-delayed-by-almost-10000-minutes-due-to-trespassers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790914\/","title":{"rendered":"SWR services delayed by almost 10,000 minutes due to trespassers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trespass incidents caused almost 10,000 minutes of delays to South Western Railway (SWR) services for the 2025\/26 period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Data released by Network Rail and British Transport Police (BTP) shows that 9,437 minutes worth of delays were caused, equivalent to about six and a half days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across England, trespass, cable theft and obstruction caused more than 3,300 hours of delays during the same period, making it one of the railway&#8217;s biggest causes of disruption, with a significant impact on customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SWR network had the third-highest rate of vandalism and obstruction across Network Rail&#8217;s 14 routes, including deliberately placed items such as debris and other pieces of track on the railway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rail firm said an additional risk on its network was the fact it uses a third rail as electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It carries 750 volts of direct current, which can cause severe or lifechanging injuries, or death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trespass incidents caused almost 10,000 minutes of delays to South Western Railway (SWR) services for the 2025\/26 period.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}