After a vicious attack on the Llangollen Railway stoarge yard, Parallel jumps in to offer free security

As a Welsh security provider based in Mold, we thrive to support local communities and businesses.  When Parallel Directors realised that Llangollen Railway had been a victim of local vandalism in August 2021, they quickly contacted Llangollen Railway to offer their security services

Francis Johnson (Managing Director) and Mel Pengelly (Director) of Parallel Security arranged a meeting with Phil Coles (Vice Chairman) of Llangollen Railway to discuss what had happened and how Parallel may be able to help this from happening again

After several site surveys and discussions over potential issues with securing the very remote storage yard where the vandalism took place, a plan was put together and offered to Llangollen Railway free of charge to help protect their beautiful carriages and engines from potential theft and vandalism in the future

Parallel provided state of the art CCTV, which is now installed at the rail yard. The cameras are monitored 24hrs a day and use artificial intelligence and motion detection to secure the areas.  If required, a Parallel Response vehicle will also attend to police the areas, if an alarm is activated.  Senior Management of the railway also have the facility to look at the cameras using mobile technology on their smart phones, giving additional operational and Health & Safety functionalities outside of the systems security provision

Francis Johnson stated “it was great to be able to support Llangollen Railway in this way, but we obviously wish that this incident had not have happened in the first place.  It is vitality important to our business to support the welsh community in this way and we are more than happy to support the railway on an ongoing basis to enable the services it provides to the public to continue without disruption from theft and vandalism

Phil Coles responded by thanking Parallel Security for their speedy response to the post on Facebook with photos of the vandalism and gracefully accepted their ongoing security support to the railway