A train driver has completed the final journey of his 50-year career on the railways.Girish Jani, 67, took to the controls of an Avanti West Coast train from Crewe to London Euston for his last task before retirement.He joined the industry as a 17-year-old in September 1974, starting as a train driver's assistant at a freight depot in Wembley, north-west London, before later becoming a driver.

A train driver has completed the final journey of his 50-year career on the railways.Girish Jani, 67, took to the controls of an Avanti West Coast train from Crewe to London Euston for his last task before retirement.He joined the industry as a 17-year-old in September 1974, starting as a train driver's assistant at a freight depot in Wembley, north-west London, before later becoming a driver.