Vauxhall train station

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Station building

Vauxhall is a train station in the London Borough of Lambeth , on the border of the Travelcard tariff zones 1 and 2. The local transport hub, which also includes an underground station for the London Underground , is located on the south bank of the Thames at the entrance to Vauxhall Bridge . In 2013, 25.15 million subway passengers used the transport hub, plus 19.066 million rail passengers. Nearby is Vauxhall Cross , the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service .

Located on a viaduct , the station was opened on July 11, 1848 by the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR). Today, South West Trains operate here from the inner suburbs to Waterloo . Trains to the outer suburbs and express trains do not stop in Vauxhall. Opened on July 23, 1971, the underground station is served by the Victoria Line . Since December 2004, city buses have been approaching a bus station on the station forecourt, the roof of which is completely covered with solar cells .

Vauxhall in the Russian language

Platforms seen from the west

There are two competing theories as to why the Russian word for train station is woksal (Вокзал) and is pronounced similarly to Vauxhall . In Russian, it means “ station building ”, while the word stanzija (станция) is used for the entire station in the sense of a railway system. For a long time it was assumed that a Russian delegation visited the area in 1840 to inspect the construction of the L&SWR. They are said to have confused the name of the area with the function of the building. When Tsar Nicholas I visited London in 1844, he is said to have observed the trains here and made the same mistake. However, the name of the original terminus of the L & SWR was then Nine Elms .

Another, more likely, explanation is based on the fact that the station building of the Pavlovsk station of the first Russian railway to Saint Petersburg was also used as a bandstand and was called Woksal (in the spelling воксал) in homage to the famous Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens . This name was used for such pavilions much earlier. Alexander Pushkin used it in 1813 in his poem To Natalia ( Na guljanjach il woksalach ... ). As early as 1777 it appeared in the spelling of Foksal in the newspaper Sanktpeterburgskije vedomosti . The name then established itself in the Russian language as a loan word for all other reception buildings that are not usually used as music pavilions.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 annual entries and exits. (Excel, 228 kB) Transport for London, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2014 (English).
  3. ^ Victoria Line. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 25, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Schelesnodoroschny transport. Enziklopedija (Railway Transport . Encyclopedia). Bolschaja Rossiiskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1995 (Russian). ISBN 5-85270-115-7
  5. ↑ Max Vasmer : Russian etymological dictionary . Winter, Heidelberg 1953–1958.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 9.6 "  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 23.2"  W.