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 Anonymous Widower 
Ah, but will they actually do it though? They used to have the free radio stations on the Voyager and Pendolinos but ripped it out for the wifi.
Comment by RedSails28699 | June 19, 2014 |
As the report is about their new franchise and is in a respected journal, I suspect it will happen. After all if others can afford put free wi-fi on Barnsley buses and Edinburgh trams, it could be considered by some to be essential.
Free wi-fi in the future might be considered as essential to train travel as windows that you can see through!
Comment by AnonW | June 19, 2014 |