London and South Western Railway - Other Details

Other Details

  • The Waterloo and City Railway was built by the LSWR to give them access to the City of London. This is now part of London Underground
  • Disregarding the Waterloo & City line, the longest tunnel is Honiton Tunnel 1,353 yards (1,237 m); there were six others longer than 500 yards (457 m)
  • The L&SWR and the Midland Railway were joint owners of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
  • The anglicised script version of the Russian word for railway station is 'vokzal'. A longstanding legend has it that a party from Russia planning their own railway system arrived in London around the time that the L&SWR's Vauxhall station was opened. They saw the station nameboards, thought the word was the English word for railway station and took it back home. In fact, the first Russian railway station was built on the site of pleasure gardens based on those at Vauxhall — nothing to do with the English railway station. (Fuller details are in the Vauxhall article.)

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