carrying out the invention additionally it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangements of components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings the invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or being carried out in various ways also it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting an illustrative embodiment of a gangway section 10 of the present invention is seen generally in fig1 and 2 a complete gangway can be formed from a single gangway section 10 or two or more of the gangway sections 10 can be connected together as will be described below to form a gangway of a desired length the gangway section 10 is quadrilateral in shape having two opposed and generally parallel ends 12 and two opposed and generally parallel sides 14 in a preferred embodiment the gangway section is about 6 u2032 long and about 4 u2032 wide these dimension of course can be changed if desired the gangway section 10 includes an upper surface 16 having a top side 18 upon which a person walks and a bottom side 20 a bottom surface 22 spaced from the upper surface and opposed sides 24 extending between the upper surface 16 and the bottom surface 22 the sides 24 are generally rectangular in cross section as seen best in fig7 and.