A Killorglin man is celebrating 67 years working at London’s Waterloo Station.

Donal Buckley has spent seven decades working in the landmark station in central London.

He was just 14-years-old when he started working as a Messenger Boy at the landmark railway station in 1953. He is the youngest of 12 siblings and ended up working in Waterloo because the taxi driver dropped him off at the wrong station on his first day. Since then he has never missed a day.

Now 82-years-old, he still turns up three days a week and now aids visually impaired and disabled people and helps passengers in need of directions or assistance using his unmatched knowledge of the station.

During his life at the railway station he has met famous people like film director Alfred Hitchcock and James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore. He counted the 'Great Train Robber' Buster Edwards as a friend. Edwards ran a flower shop at the station after he was he released from prison up to his death in 1994.

“The station has changed a lot since I’ve been here. All the gentlemen wore bowler hats in those days, and everyone had an umbrella,” he said. "It was hard back then but I love working here, and it’s still the station I love. I have no plans to retire, despite my wife, children and grandchildren all asking. Waterloo Station is a part of my life and I’m happy," he said in a rare public interview in 2019.

His niece Mary Buckley lives locally.

“He is a character, there is a book in him, all the stories he tells, but he is very modest,” she told the Killarney Advertiser this week.