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Sick, a canal thread! It's probably because the industrial revolution happened here earlier, so a longer period between needing the materials (coal, iron ore, stone, etc) and the advent of rail. Plus as another anon said, we're relatively flat.
It's worth also mentioning, our canal culture is unlike anything else in the world. Sure, there are fantastic and beautiful canals elsewhere in the world but none are quite like the English canals in terms of design, the narrowboats, the art, the way of life of those early navvies and boat families... It's still somewhat being preserved today but it's a bit of a simulacra if anything.
T. live on a narrowboat on the canals
