Talk:Winter road

I think an Ice road and a Winter road are so unlike one another they should not be considered to be the same.

Early industrial Sweden

The following text was removed from Transport during the Industrial Revolution before it was renamed to Transport during the British Industrial Revolution. The topic needs expansion.

Before the British industrial revolution, the most industrialized nation in Europe was Sweden. The Swedish iron industry was the source of much of the iron used in Britain. The Swedish industry relied in winter roads for the transport of iron ore and charcoal to the blast furnaces and finery forges. Uppland, where much of the iron industry was concentrated, had no canals. All heavy transport was done during the winter months, when the frozen ground could carry heavy loads and the snow would provide low friction for sledges.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 16:03, 30 November 2010 (UTC)