Rail passengers travelling on one of the country’s busiest routes will now be able to access free Wi-Fi during their journey.
The free service will be available on South West Trains-Network Rail Alliance Class 444 ‘Desiro’ trains travelling on the main line route from London Waterloo to Weymouth and Portsmouth. Every weekday, more than 30,000 people use this particular line, reports itv.com.
Steve Brine, Winchester and Chandler’s Ford MP, is partly responsible for the new service, as he highlighted the problem of a lack of on-train Wi-Fi last year. He personally tested the service and said that it works “really well”.
“One real benefit of taking the train over driving has to be the opportunity it affords to get some serious work done and that has been near impossible for most of us, until now,” he explained. “I think South West Trains got rather fed up with me always banging on about this subject whenever I saw them but they’ve come good, made it happen and deserve huge credit for that.”
He hopes the service will receive positive feedback and eventually be rolled out to all trains operating within the wider South West Trains network, reports hampshirechronicle.co.uk.
Nomad Digital is behind the installation of the on-board Wi-Fi.
