{"id":1443,"date":"2008-04-07T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T12:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/smart-thinking-from-national-express-trains-on-wifi\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T12:17:49","slug":"smart-thinking-from-national-express-trains-on-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/smart-thinking-from-national-express-trains-on-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Thinking From National Express Trains on Wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for this weekend&#8217;s trip to London the chosen form of transport was the train, more specifically the &#8216;new&#8217; National Express East Coast line. With GNER going bust, the franchise was passed over to National Express and they&#8217;ve been promising changes as best they can &#8211; although ith the same budget as GNER, and at the mercy of track works and the same problems as GNER I wasn&#8217;t sure just how much change they could put in place. Never mind though, as I quite liked GNER &#8211; and I liked it a lot more than the times I had to take the Virgin &#8216;Voyager&#8217; trains.<\/p>\n<p>They;ve made one small change that I really appreciate though. There is free wi-fi throughout the train. Previously this was only avaiable to first class customers &#8211; standard class cost something like \u00a320 for the journey. Someone inside National Express decided this was penny pinching (I assume) and they&#8217;d get more benefit if it was free throughout the train. So I&#8217;m logged on, browsing, twittering and blogging from my 110mph desk. It&#8217;s very nice, and I can get through maybe 80% of what I would do sitting at my desk at home (the upload speed for FTP is slower than a bag at Terminal 5, image browsing is slow at best) but it does the job. Would I prefer to swap this over the airline flights? Tricky&#8230; but at least I know there is a strong alternative, put it that way.<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ewan_nxec_wifi.jpg' alt='National Express East Coast Wifi' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for this weekend&#8217;s trip to London the chosen form of transport was the train, more specifically the &#8216;new&#8217; National Express East Coast line. With GNER going bust, the franchise was passed over to National Express and they&#8217;ve been promising changes as best they can &#8211; although ith the same budget as GNER, and at the mercy of track works and the same problems as GNER I wasn&#8217;t sure just how much change they could put in place. Never mind though, as I quite liked GNER &#8211; and I liked it a lot more than the times I had to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-nh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}