notverydeep
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Three 700s have had glass smashed. Now it seems a 387 has had damage too. At least some reported as vandalism. Trains hit with grafitti too.
The 4 car 365 is apparently standing in for a 700 that had the cab windscreen broken.
Indeed, 700019 on 2C06 0751 King's Cross to Cambridge had a significant graffiti attack evident this morning. The plain fact is, if you want to keep a lid on this, you must not put trains with significant graffiti into service. When they go into service, they invite another ten more instances of the same or worse and it soon gets out of control. Some operators do manage to keep this in check by just this strategy. I can understand GTR's reluctance to cancel given other performance issues, especially over the past 12 months and yes there will be complaints and a hit to take on scores in the short term, but letting everyone see what the vandal derives kudos from being seen is a huge mistake.
I can imagine that having a huge expanse of curved glass is a real problem for maintainers, really expensive and presumably takes ages to install and for the glue to cure...