An old Frimley Park favourite is back on track thanks to a much-needed makeover by The Repair Shop.

Our popular Thomas the Tank Engine meal trolley had been delivering breakfast, lunch and dinner to the F1 children’s ward for more than 30 years.

But the years had taken their toll with broken handles, rusty panels and chipped, faded paintwork among Thomas’s more obvious issues.

But last night viewers of the hit BBC1 show saw him restored to his former glory by metal expert Dominic Chinea.

The work was carried out as part of a special episode of The Repair Shop celebrating 75 years of the NHS.

In February, F1 senior sister Katie Wilson visited the famous West Sussex barn where the programme is filmed to discuss the repairs, accompanied by long-serving staff nurse Catherine Read.

It was then full steam ahead for the repair works before a good-as-new Thomas was returned to service and unveiled to staff and patients back at Frimley Park Hospital.

Katie said: “It was really special and they did a really good job.”

“After the initial unveiling in the hospital canteen them wheeled him to F1 and we had a bit of a party with the children on the ward that day.”

The Repair Shop NHS Special is available to view on the BBC iPlayer.