27 August 2024

The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) will begin a year-long trial that will upgrade trains on the Far North and Kyle railway lines in the Highlands of Scotland with ‘the best Wi-Fi experience of any train service’ in the UK, enabled via low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite.

The project aims to start fitting the new system during autumn 2024, with the service becoming available from December 2024 through December 2025.

Trains that run on these routes typically pass through some of the most intermittent and least reliable areas of mobile network coverage in the UK, which the new system could tackle – at significant expense.