Baldur Bjarnason on Nostr: The history of rail attempts in Iceland is a long one. There have been regular ...

The history of rail attempts in Iceland is a long one. There have been regular efforts to try to build a rail network here since industrialisation. It just never worked for a variety of reasons.

Like, to pick one example, the Seyðisfjörður to Reykjavík route is prone to jökulhlaup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jökulhlaup). The logistics of rail in Iceland always turn out to be more complex than people expected and the effort runs out of steam, so to speak