Dust down

These preparations are being dusted down and refreshed and will continue to stand their owners in good stead in November.

Hood explains: "It's never a case of just taking these units and dusting them down. Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due. They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets. That caused a bit of a headache when it came to recommissioning them."

He was on the ground, so I helped him up, dusted him down and brought him home.