Not a huge amount of progress to report but a lot of work got done.  Jim spent the day finishing off the beading for the window pillars whilst I finished shortening the bolts for D end sraircase.  Jim also took 14 mm of the bottom of the D end stairs after a trial fit.  When these jobs were finished we offerred the staircase up and it fitted nicely under the landing.  I then retired to the workshop again to drill the brackets for attaching the stairs, using the lathe.  In the afternoon we fitted the brackets at the top of the stairs and tighetened the bolts.  Jim then got on with finishing the nosing on the canopy at B end and I routed the nosings on the two landings.  Paul appeared in the morning with the first batch of refurbished frames for the monitor vents. Jim has now taken them for glazing and varnishing.  I collected the cross stay rods that connect the underframe with the tie bars that go between the axle boxes.  Hopefully we will be able to have a trial fit on the chassis next week.  Hopefully next two weeks we will be able to dry fit the first staircase. Tomorrow I'm off to Crich to measure up various things on Chesterfield 8 so that I can complete the drawings for the brake column/dash assembly and various other parts such as the lamps.  A steady week overall.