![]() In America "metro" is usually short for "metropolitan area" (a big city and its area of influence). You can take the tube to Green Park and then walk. The London system is also called the tube. Glasgow, though it is in Britain, uses the word "subway", but in the rest of Great Britain "subway" is an underground passage for pedestrians (to cross under a road or street). Some speakers of British English also use subway to refer to a British railway system like this, but the London and Glasgow systems are usually called the underground. but we use "subway" for other cities like Tokyo, and for example in Seoul it is "Seoul Metropolitan Subway" (not sure if people there simply says "metro" or "subway"). We use the word METRO to talk about most of the foreign underground systems in other cities: Paris, Moscow, Madrid, Shanghai, Beijing. But most everywhere else they usually call it simply the TRAIN. Examples of subway system in a sentence, how to use it. In America the first metro was built in New York, and it was called SUBWAY because it was built mostly under the streets (sub= under / way= road), since Manhattan street plan is quite a regular grill and it was easy to do so. But in general, in the UK we usually call it THE TUBE, because it mostly goes (or went) inside a tunnel, a tube. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. We found 20 possible solutions for this clue. ![]() with 11 letters was last seen on the January 01, 1988. The first metro was opened in London and later most of it was soon built underground (under the city), so it was then called THE UNDERGROUND, even to this day. The crossword clue British subway system. A passenger railway going inside an urban area was called the METROPOLITAN RAILWAY (urban train system), in modern English: METRO. ![]()
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