Subway

The word subway has several possible meanings:

• A rapid transit railway (or sometimes light rail). This meaning is used mostly in the U.S. and some parts of Canada. Subways of this sort are known elsewhere as metros, undergrounds, tubes, U-Bahnen and various other local names.
  • See also: List of rapid transit systems.
  • Subway may also refer specifically to a tunnel or other underground structure built to carry either rapid transit or light rail vehicles, street tram, or even buses that go underground for part of their route.

• Subway is a name used in British English (including Hong Kong), and also older American English to refer to an underground passageway of any sort including those used to allow pedestrians to cross underneath roads or railway tracks.

• Subway is a multinational fast food restaurant chain of American origin that sells primarily submarine sandwiches (subs, hoagies, blimpies, bombs, grinders, etc.) salads, low carbohydrate wraps and other related foods.

• Subway is a 1985 French movie by Luc Besson.

• Subway is the name of an acclaimed episode of the American TV series Homicide: Life on the Street that aired in the show's 1997–1998 season.

• The Subways, a British rock band.

• In Australian English, the word subway means a bridge which carries a railway over a road.

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