Why was industrialization of continental europe more difficult than in britain?

The ability of Britain to have one land mass to cross allowed for rapid industrialization, especially with rail lines and transit. They didn't have to focus on competing regional interests in rail travel, such as rail gauge and could bring their items to market quicker than in Europe. They also didn't need to worry about those border crossing to get their items to market. Where an item in central UK could ship to any port in UK, a landlocked German industrial city needed to ship to a German port or face tariffs for crossing the border. They also had extensive colonies throughout the world to provide those raw goods, from cotton to mining goods, aiding the growth of their industry and decreasing cost of the finished good allowing easier competition in markets that needed to buy raw goods from British colonies.