Re: Train Drivers Life Expectancy

[Marvin The Martian <"choochoo"@spin.net.au (nospam)>]

I want to go now but I am only young, I guess I will have to pray for Lotto

Tezza wrote:

> "Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@idx.com.au> wrote in message
> 3a84adfa@news1.idx.com.au">news:3a84adfa@news1.idx.com.au...
> | My grandfather retired from NSWGR back in 1954, aged 60, being one of the
> | most senior Eveleigh drivers at the time. He was called in by the Chief
> | Mechanical Engineer, who asked why he was going early and not remaining
> | until he was 65 as he was entitled to do. His reply was that he wanted to
> | enjoy his retirement, not be dead in twelve months like some of his mates
> | who had gone to 65. He enjoyed eighteen years of happy, relatively healthy
> | retirement, while many of the drivers who featured in the newspapers as
> | steam finished and their careers came to an end were indeed unable to
> enjoy
> | a long retirement. It seems to me that the anecdotal evidence about short
> | retirements has been around for many decades.
>
> One of the reasons I intend going at 58.