tube railway

American  

noun

British.

1. subway.

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Etymology

Origin of tube railway

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For example, the tunnel of a tube railway is an event at rest in a certain time-system, that is to say, it is cogredient with a certain duration.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

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

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

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 The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The most striking instance is that of the tube railway from Charing Cross to Golders Green, now being extended under Government guarantee to Edgware.

From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various