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.
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.