Providers of stability on stairs

Usage examples of handrails.

Ahead, the way was barred by a circular hole in the deckplate, ringed by rusty handrails - a waste chute, scorched and blackened where clinker from the furnaces had been tipped down.

A cool breeze touched their faces as they peered over the handrail and down, the long spiral of stairs dwindling into darkness below with the bronze handrails gleaming.

He noted that the handrails were long unpolished, that a couple of stanchions were missing and that several treads were broken.