Virgin To Introduce Free Wi-Fi For All Passengers
Virgin Trains have retained their franchise to run West Coast Main Line services, according to this article from Modern Railways.
What I particularly like is this announcement.
All 76 Pendolino and Super Voyager trains will be equipped with superfast WiFi, which Network Rail intends to support by providing track-side infrastructure, said Virgin: ‘This would be the first major intercity deployment of 4G technology on the UK rail network and provide free WiFi to all customers.”
So they are following Chiltern Railways in making wi-fi free and accessible to all.
This will mean that if say I’m going to somewhere like Huddersfield, where I could use another company, I will travel on a Virgin!
The Robert Hooke Biodiversity Bell
I passed this work by St. Paul’s Cathedral.
It is mentioned on many web sites, but it doesn’t seem to have a serious entry on the web. This blog gives a good explanation.
To me Robert Hooke is best known for Hooke’s Law, one of the basic laws of physics, that anybody who studied that subject will probably know. But Hooke did a lot more than find the law that bears his name.
He is one of those amazing characters that populate the history of science.
The Anonymous Widower 