Re: Train Drivers Life Expectancy

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@idx.com.au> wrote in message
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| 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.