underground railway
Example Sentences
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The company will thus drop the word “Métropolitain,” which, shortened into “métro,” has passed into the French language to designate any city underground railway.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023
Gerald Norman Springer was born Feb. 13, 1944, in a London underground railway station being used as a bomb shelter.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023
Learn about trams, buses and the world’s oldest underground railway at this museum in Covent Garden.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
Ward told me about another brownfield resource in London that Chetwoods hopes, ingeniously, to renovate: a six-mile underground railway that connects Paddington in west London to Whitechapel in east London.
From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2019
“Yes, an American gentleman of the name of Jones had stayed in the hotel and on the night of the first of June had met with ‘an accident’ on the underground railway.
From The Man Who Lost Himself by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
