fifteen were injured. The light engine was started away from Kingston by hand signal, and the signalman there had failed to set the points for the correct line; the engine was running on the wrong line. On 1 July 1906, an Up Boat Train Express passenger train was derailed at due to excessive speed on a curve. A 30mph (42kph) speed restriction applied to the curve at the east end of the station. Twenty-eight persons were killed and eleven were injured. The driver appeared not to react to the proximity of the speed restriction, yet he was a total abstainer and there were no other explanatory factors, either human or mechanical. Other details Disregarding the Waterloo & City line, the longest tunnel is Honiton Tunnel ; there were six others longer than 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 LSWR'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.) Notes References Sources Further reading External links www.lswr.org – South Western Circle: The Historical Society for the London & South Western Railway Railway companies established in 1838 Railway lines opened in 1840 Railway companies disestablished in 1923 Pre-grouping British railway companies West Country History of rail transport in London 1838 establishments in England 1923 disestablishments in England British companies established in 1838 British companies disestablished in 1923