To mark Waterloo station’s 170th birthday on July 11, Network Rail and South Western Railway reveal the man believed to be Britain’s longest-serving member of railway staff.
Don Buckley, 79, joined Waterloo’s station team in 1953 aged just 14. Due to start a job as a messenger at London Euston, Irish-born Don mistakenly ended up at Waterloo after asking a taxi driver to take him to the big station in the capital.
他今天仍然在那里工作，65年后。
他令人难以置信的岁月的服务意味着唐是少数人仍然在行业中工作的人中，正式训练去解除蒸汽火车。
1952年送往克里郡克里郡伦敦的唐派遣到英格兰谋生后，说：“那些年前我来到这里时，我很年轻，吓坏了。我无法让自己的位置。到处都是“让房间，但没有爱尔兰”。
“我每周拿到7英镑，不得不向母亲发出很多钱。这很难回来，但我喜欢在这里工作。
“All the gentlemen wore bowler hats in those days, and everyone had an umbrella. I remember we used to have a cinema by platform one and I’d sneak-up and watch the kids’ shows on the Saturday.”
Don now works for South Western Railway helping visually impaired and disabled people make their way around the station, as well as providing his unmatched knowledge of the station to passengers needing directions or assistance.
唐说：“我们在这里帮助人们，我能够与我总是在车站看到的人 - 他们总是停下来打招呼。”
Famous faces
“Some of the people I’ve met here over the years are unbelievable. I once took Sir Stanley Matthews’ suitcase – he gave me four shillings. I helped carry lots of people’s luggage over the years. Roger Moore tipped me £10, and I took Alfred Hitchcock’s as well. I wasn’t too fond of him though because he had a very heavy suitcase full of books. When they were making that Bourne film here they told me I couldn’t go up a flight of stairs, well, I did and that young man Matt Damon opened the gate for me.
“当我来到这里时，车站已经改变了很多。没有更多的蒸汽火车或任何类似的东西，但它仍然是我爱的车站，我认为前任国际终端重新打开时它会很棒。“
一个升级8亿英镑，在高峰时段创造30％的房间，是由于今年年底完成，英国最繁忙的车站，包括重新开放前滑铁卢国际码头。
尽管他在车站的所有工作生活中都花了，但唐说他仍然错过了他的时候，他仍然错过了它：他说：“当我在度假或我离开时，我想念滑铁卢。这就像失去手指;就像我错过了我的一部分。我的女儿和儿子对我说'爸爸，你变老了'但我不听。我的妻子每天都对我说：'你谈论的只是滑铁卢，滑铁卢，滑铁卢'，但我无法帮助它;Waterloo是我生命中的一部分，我很高兴。“
Network Rail董事总经理贝基Lumlock表示：“正如我们为Waterlo亚搏彩票软件官网o Station庆祝这个惊人的生日，我很自豪地在车站队伍上努力 - 他肯定是英国铁路上最长的服务人员。
“Waterloo has an amazing history, from the first people to ever catch a train to the Derby in 1843, to the first baby born at the station just last year. And it’s got an exciting future ahead of it. Our £800 million investment will bring the former Waterloo International Terminal back into use, providing more space for the 100 million passenger journeys made through this station every year.”