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Virgin Trains Boosts In-carriage Mobile Coverage
News Travellers on Virgin Trains could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be installed on all 52 of Virgin's high-speed Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November.
[April 8, 2008, 9:29]
Virgin Trains Boosts On-board Mobile Signals
News Virgin's cross-country trains are being fitted with equipment which will boost mobile signals. Because of the design of Virgin's Voyager trains — the windows are made out of glass containing metal compounds — making a phone call can currently be...
[May 15, 2007, 15:17]
Virgin Trains Aims For 49Mbps Broadband
News Travellers on Virgin Trains' West Coast line may soon be getting Wi-Fi access with WiMax backhaul. With on-board Internet, working travellers can carry on with business as usual by staying connected while in transit," said Virgin Trains' new...
[September 21, 2006, 13:55]
TheTrainline And Virgin Trains Boost Ticket Sales Efficiency With High-Tech Ears And Naomi's Friendly Voice
White Papers Britain's Virgin Trains needed to improve the cost effectiveness of its customer sales centres while maintaining the quality of the customer experience. The result makes the whole experience of buying a train ticket quick and easy for the customer...
[May 16, 2004, 1:03]
Virgin Trains Aims For 49Mbps Broadband
Talkback So its 2M really - "WiMax can theoretically provide speeds of up to 49Mbps, although in this case the DSL land connections will limit that to 2Mbps" though they could use MaxDSL or bonding to get double-digit MBit/s speeds from ADSL.
[October 1, 2006, 9:01]
Virgin Trains And XSeries: Anytime, Anywhere Reliability
White Papers The smart system-management tools of the xSeries 380 ensure near-zero downtime for this U.K.transportation company.
[March 2, 2004, 11:17]
Virgin Leaps On Board With Wi-Fi
News Virgin Trains is rolling out wireless networks at several of the railway stations it serves, and is also aiming to crack the holy grail of Wi-Fi access on a moving train. We are very excited about launching the first seamless and secure Internet...
[June 3, 2003, 11:38]
Virgin Won't Be Rushed Over Wi-Fi
News Virgin Trains is planning to roll out wireless broadband Internet access for passengers on its west coast and cross-country franchise services following a successful pilot of the technology last year.
[February 9, 2006, 15:20]
Virgin Takes Wi-Fi Up The West Coast
News Passengers on Virgin trains should be able to get limited high-speed wireless Internet access in their carriage by the end of this year, as the race to Wi-Fi enable the UK's railways heats up. Wi-Fi operator Broadreach Networks is installing...
[August 19, 2003, 9:39]
UK Train Operators Expand Free Wi-Fi Offers
News First class rail passengers are in for a Wi-Fi treat as Virgin Trains on Monday launched the long awaited trial of its wireless Internet services and GNER has extended its free Wi-Fi trial indefinitely.
[March 17, 2004, 16:30]
Wi-Fi Trains Are Steaming Down The Track
News Wireless operator Broadreach Networks has signed deals with Virgin and four other unnamed rail operators to install wireless hot spots on their trains. Virgin is already installing Wi-Fi networks within its Pendolino locomotives, while GNER has...
[August 20, 2004, 14:40]
Wi-Fi Rollout Completed On East Coast Trains
News Several other rail routes, such as Virgin's West Coast service and Southern Trains' Brighton Express, have opted instead for WiMax backhaul, which theoretically provides better speeds and lower latency and is based on fixed-WiMax transmitters...
[October 27, 2006, 12:25]
GNER Steams Ahead With Wi-Fi Train
News If the trial is successful GNER will fit the equipment to 10 high-speed diesel trains and then 30 electric trains. Rival train operator Virgin is also looking at offering wireless Internet services to passengers.
[December 1, 2003, 15:20]
Virgin Kicks Off £50m Cyber Commerce Plan
News Virgin Trains will be launching a Web site for booking rail tickets, Virgin Atlantic will be pushing online air tickets, Virgin Direct will allow customers to manage their finances online, including buying a house and paying the gas bill.
[February 17, 1999, 16:06]
Don't Split Up BT, Says Government Advisor
News Virgin Railways, for example, planned to introduce tilting trains, which required a track upgrade. Then the track upgrade was scaled back, and Virgin's ability to run tilting trains was wasted. Breaking up BT has been proposed to prevent the...
[December 2, 2002, 17:03]
Eurostar Plans Wi-Fi Trials
News Train operator Eurostar is to begin trialling wireless Internet access on its cross-channel services later this year, joining operators such as GNER and Virgin Trains who are already experimenting with the service.
[February 6, 2004, 13:00]
Remind Me To Avoid Travelling On The Fitted Trains
Talkback I suppose we'll have yet more of that on Virgin trains. People talking loudly on their mobiles - often non-stop for hours - are already a menace on train journeys. I think only texting should be allowed when people have to sit next to each other...
[May 17, 2007, 19:56]
Wi-Fi Rollout Completed On East Coast Trains
Talkback The main reason nobody uses laptops on First "Great" Western trains is that they have yet to manage to provide power points, something even Virgin have had for years. It's about time some of the other railway companies got with the 21st century...
[October 27, 2006, 23:35]
Mobile Working Is A Myth
Blog Comment The West Coast line does have a unique set of problems, the new Virgin Pendalino trains use a specific lead compound in the glass train carriage windows, this repels mobile phone signals drastically reducing coverage quality.
[June 18, 2007, 11:54]
Heathrow Express Gets On-board Wi-Fi
News The Wi-Fi hot spot service is being rolled out by Nomad Digital, which installed similar connectivity on Southern Trains' Brighton Express route and recently emerged as the preferred bidder to do the same for Virgin's West Coast line.
[November 7, 2006, 10:57]
