The teenager who went joyriding ... on a 48-ton train

A teenage engineering apprentice took a 48-ton locomotive on a 40-minute joyride round a marshalling yard.

Daniel Matthews, 19, who admitted taking a locomotive without consent, is fascinated by anything mechanical.

Matthews and a friend drove the shunting engine around the yard, stopping from time to time to change the points.

And the teenager was so good at manoeuvring the vehicle that he was discovered only when a security guard who spotted him realised he was not wearing a railway driver's regulation clothing.

Matthews, from Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire, was ordered to do 200 hours community service.