We think we've cracked the issue of how best to join sections together. The following photos show (using a couple of demonstration end sections and a 'real' pier) how it will work.

Rather than have a separate detachable pier for the joins, which creates additional problems regarding planting in the scenery and so on, the pier will be 'half' attached to one end of the two sections to be joined.

The dowel and the square-section pins provide for alignment. The pins have holes drilled into them so that when mated they can be locked with round pins pushed in from the top.

The pins will be disguised by covering with cable ducting on the trackbed. A detachable refuge will be placed over the gap between the balustrades. A detachable 'batwing' shaped piece of brickwork will go over the join and extend to the crests of the adjacent arches to minimise visible joins.