tube railway

American  

noun

British.

1. subway.

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Etymology

Origin of tube railway

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

"A public meeting was held at Hampstead last night to protest against the tampering with the Heath by tube railway promoters."

From Project Gutenberg

Then, as Groat’s Heath had suddenly become a popular suburb with a tube railway, a land company acquired the estate, the house was razed to the ground and in a twinkling a colony of Noah’s ark villas took its place.

From Project Gutenberg

A tube railway will be needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university.

From Time Magazine Archive

His way lay across the great common to the Vale of Health district, and thence down a slanting road and a sloping 74 street to the Hampstead Heath Station of the Tube Railway, and he covered the distance to such good effect that half-past eleven found him “down under,” swaying to the rhythmic movement of an electric train and arrowing through the earth at a lively clip.

From Project Gutenberg

This can't be far from Kensington Gardens—and I want to sit there on a green chair and—meditate—and afterwards I want to find a tube railway or something that will take me back to Putney.

From Project Gutenberg