Nigel Dunn, the company's VP North Europe, said: "In the last couple of years, business in the South East has had to contend with the strikes on the London Underground, the firemen's dispute and ongoing rail difficulties.
GNER's trial of high-speed wireless networks on selected trains has proved popular with mobile business workers, according to early figures released by the railway operator this week. This rapid growth is partly caused by an increase in the number...
BT has won a contract to provide automated speech recognition technology for the UK's National Rail Enquiries telephone service. Chris Scoggins, CEO of National Rail Enquiries, said that apart from allowing callers access to train times, the new...
The first trial will be at London's Paddington station for passengers using the Heathrow Express rail link who will have to pass through a body scanner and put their luggage through an x-ray machine. The government is planning to test the increased...
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. Travellers on Virgin Train could soon be chattering for longer.
It will allow rail passengers to link train tickets to smart cards or to Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled mobile phones, such as the Nokia 6131. South West Trains will start running a smart ticketing system from February next year, followed...