Progress continues on many fronts, these images show a lot of effort being put into the frame stays, cab and sundry small parts.  All photos by David Elliott.

Cab beads temporarily bolted together – finished (above left), before machining (below right)

Steve Wood machining the cab beading

Cab roof components primed

Cartazzi hornblocks permanently installed

Exhaust injector control valve casting being machined at M Machine

Machined kit of parts for front bufferbeam draw hook spring block

Front drawhook spring block as fabrication

Inside motion bracket ready for machining

Intermediate frame stay ready for machining at North View

Rear frame stay nearing completion of welding at North View

Temporary smokebox saddle stay

Even when no large and impressive parts feature in our news, work continues at Darlington Locomotive Works to machine and fit many of those that have been cast or manufactured.  In these photos by Bob Hughes Ian Matthews is seen machining part of the front drawbar spring block which was originally a casting and has been re-designed as a steel fabrication.

Profiles for the smoke box door hinges, hinge brackets and the door centre boss

The kit of parts to make a temporary stay to fit where the cylinders will eventually go. This needed to keep the front frames straight to enable completion of the front footplating and also to act as a temporary support for the smokebox pending the cylinder block being fitted.