`Fat Controller' goes off the rails

London - A portly British railway manager known as "The Fat Controller" was jailed for 27 months yesterday for stealing enough…

London - A portly British railway manager known as "The Fat Controller" was jailed for 27 months yesterday for stealing enough locomotives, wagons and carriages to start his own railway.

Barry Daly, who gained his nickname from the Thomas The Tank Engine children's books, perpetrated an elaborate paperwork fraud to steal four locomotives, six passenger carriages, three breakdown coaches and 30 wagons.

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