Keith Turuwhaenua has spent 60 years on the job
Keith Turuwhaenua is KiwiRail's longest-serving current employee, and one of only a handful of staff aged over 75. On Saturday he celebrated 60 years on the job - and the 76-year-old says he still enjoys getting up every day to head to work.
Turuwhaenua got the job after his grandfather encouraged him to move to Wellington to complete a trade training programme run by the Government's Māori Affairs department in 1961 when he was 16.
He has worked out of KiwiRail's mechanical depot in Thorndon, where he's currently based, for much of his career but also worked at the workshop in Woburn, Lower Hutt, for a time.
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