Another good day of progress. We were joined by Andy Bailey from Crich and a lot got done.  Jim brought in the first end advertising board that he's made up at home and we trial fitted it. It looks good and I then went out shopping for some brackets to hold it on. After a suggestion from one of the Middleton volunteers I bought 28 black enamelled conduit clips from an electrical wholesaler which worked a treat.  Mike Cook started turning various jointing pieces for the handrail system from steel bar and when those were finished started to prepare to braze some lengths of handrail together so that we get a tapered appearance on the vertical rails inside the staircase.  Andy and I then started work on the dash and fitted the stanchions at D end then bolted the dash rail down and then Andy made a good job of fitting the brake handle at that end and then put up the brake rigging.

It's rather cramped in there but we did manage to get the dash fitted.  The brakes were then applied and tested and worked!!!.  Some minor adjustments are needed but the system does work.

Here's the brake pawl and one of the new dash stanchions.

Jim and I then carried on fitting vent windows and the results are starting to lookrather nice.  All in all a great days work.  We also discovered that by careful positioning of the tram we will be able to fit the other dash so things are really coming on.