Low population with little heavy industrial activity, coupled with very unforgiving terrain (steep volcanic grades) and even more unforgiving weather (severe frost heaves/thermal fluctuation, huge snow load).
there’s just no economic reason to build difficult railways when your entire country is like 300mi across and never moves enough stuff in bulk to need it. including people.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Low population with little heavy industrial activity, coupled with very unforgiving terrain (steep volcanic grades) and even more unforgiving weather (severe frost heaves/thermal fluctuation, huge snow load).
there’s just no economic reason to build difficult railways when your entire country is like 300mi across and never moves enough stuff in bulk to need it. including people.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The only real use case would be for Keflavik to Reykjavik. But even that is handled just fine by a fleet of coaches.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So, you just ask your coach while training “can you take me to Reykjavik?”