While most 16-year-olds today are working part-time jobs at their local takeaway or supermarket, in 1975 Bernie Keast found himself in his first full-time job at an organisation he went on to serve for nearly five decades.
Back then, Mr Keast had just finished "fourth form" at Kempsey on the NSW Mid North Coast when he sat the NSW Railways exam.
To his surprise, a few days later he was employed.
