underground railway

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There have been reports traffic lights not working and the underground railway system being evacuated in Madrid, and a similar power outage in Portugal.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

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

Then, by way of the underground railway, I gained the neighbourhood of Mile End, and interested myself about its back streets till the time approached to look for Plummer's cab.

From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur