• @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOP
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    51 year ago

    If someone says long distance rail can’t work where you are because you’re on an island show them this.

    Aside from connecting a major landmass to a single island, this would also be great for archipelagos or anywhere where you have population centres relatively close in distance but separated by water too far to tunnel or build a bridge across, which is a lot of places. Not sure why these aren’t built in more places (and places like Denmark are even removing their train ferries) because there are a ton of benefits of taking a train straight across the water instead of getting off the train, getting on a ferry, getting off the ferry, and getting on another train. Single seat service like this would make train travel much more competitive with air travel.