Updated On: 21 April, 2015 06:53 AM IST | | Shashank Rao
<p>All trains plying between Elphinstone Road and Mahalaxmi halted after all the signals turned red abruptly; officials claim theft of all 28 cables from junction box at Lower Parel resulted in scrambling of services</p>

Commuters on the Western Railway were inconvenienced for over three hours, as more than 50 services on the Western line were cancelled after a thief made away with all the 28 cables inside a silver-coloured junction box that controls the signalling system between Elphinstone Road and Mahalaxmi.

Workers trying to fix the signalling system that went awry after a thief stole all the 28 cables inside a junction box at Lower Parel