Vauxhall station

Vauxhall is a railway station in the London Borough of Lambeth, at the boundary of Travelcard Zone 1 and 2, the transport hub, which also includes an underground station of the London Underground, located on the southern bank of the Thames at the entrance to Vauxhall Bridge. In the year 2011 there were 20.87 million subway passengers at the interchange, added 16.532 million passengers by rail. In the vicinity there is Vauxhall Cross, the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Situated on a viaduct railway station was opened on July 11, 1848 by the London and South Western Railway (L & SWR ). Today trains running the company South West Trains from the inner suburbs to Waterloo. Trains to the outer suburbs and fast trains do not stop in Vauxhall. Opened on July 23, 1971 subway station served by the Victoria Line. At the station forecourt, a bus station is served by the city buses since December 2004, the roof is completely covered with solar cells.

Vauxhall in the Russian language

There are two competing theories of why the Russian word for station Vokzal ( Вокзал ) and is similar to Vauxhall is pronounced. In the Russian technical language it means " reception building ", while the word stanzija ( станция ) is used for the entire station in terms of layout. Long it was assumed as a reason that in 1840 a ​​Russian delegation visited the area to inspect the construction of the L & SWR. They should have confused the name of the environment with the function of the building. When Tsar Nicholas I in 1844 visited London, he is said to have observed here the trains and committed the same mistake. However, the name of the original terminus of the L & SWR at the time was Nine Elms.

Another, more likely, explanation based on the fact that the reception hall of the station Pavlovsk the first Russian railway to Saint Petersburg used as a bandstand and a tribute to the famous model Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Woksal was called ( in the notation воксал ). For those pavilions that name was already in use much earlier. So, it used 1813 Alexander Pushkin in his poem An Natalia (Na guljanjach il w woksalach ... ). Already in 1777 it appeared in the spelling Foksal on in the newspaper Vedomosti Sanktpeterburgskije. The name then became established in the Russian language as a loanword also for everyone else, not usually used as a music pavilion reception building.