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  Subway (disambiguation) - guideofcasinos.com
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 multinational fast food restaurant chain of American origin that sells primarily submarine sandwiches (subs, hoagies, blimpies, bombs, grinders, etc.) and salads.
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.
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 The Ultimate Urban heavy rail - American History Information Guide and Reference
In London, the Tower Subway provided a crossing under the River Thames using a tiny cable car for the 410 m journey; the line closed in a matter of months and the tunnel was given over to pedestrians, later becoming a utility conduit.
The oldest subway in the Southern Hemisphere opened in 1913 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is also the oldest one in Latin America and the whole Spanish-speaking world.
The Toronto Subway (1954) used the first aluminum subway car (which was at the time also the longest car in the world), which reduced weight and therefore operating costs.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Metro   (3195 words)

  
 subway - OneLook Dictionary Search
subway : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Phrases that include subway: subway system, baltimore subway, bastille subway sation, berlin subway, brighton beach subway, more...
Words similar to subway: metro, tube, underground, underpass, more...
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  Metro | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway — usually in an urban area — with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic.
The Tunnel a 573 m long subway opened in 1875 in Istanbul is the second oldest.
The three primary ways subway tunnels are constructed: cut and cover, tunnel boring, and cover and cut.
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 Subway
Subway (rail), underground railway, also known as a metro, underground, U-Bahn
Subway (underpass), an underground walkway, usually a tunnel
Subway (canyoneering), a canyon in Zion National Park
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 Category "Disambiguation" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Do not add articles to these sub-categories or create additional sub-categories until you read Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)—most of the sub-categories do not comply with the MOS and will be removed.
There is rarely any need for links directly to disambiguation pages.
Find and fix them at disambiguation pages with links.
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 Rapid transit
Similarly, the Independent Subway System in New York City was built to compete with the private IRT and BMT systems, and succeeded in running them out of business (in conjunction with other factors, such as fare limits).
The oldest subway in the Southern Hemisphere opened in 1913 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is also the oldest one in Latin America and the whole Spanish-speaking world.
The Toronto Subway (1954) used the first aluminum subway car (which was at the time also the longest car in the world), which reduced weight and therefore operating costs.
www.reboom.com /article/Metro.html   (3923 words)

  
 Rapid transit Summary
Subways serve as the nucleus of many transit systems and are generally underground rail lines that offer commuters a relatively speedy ride to and from urban centers.
The tubular subway, or tube, is constructed by boring a round linear hole parallel to the ground surface.
The oldest subway in the Southern Hemisphere opened in 1913 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is also the oldest one in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world.
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 Metro   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway—usually in an urban area—with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic.
The two primary ways that subway tunnels are constructed are by cut and cover and tunnel boring.
With 15 lines, the Tokyo subway is the largest rapid transit network in the world, transporting 7 million passengers daily.
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 Rapid transit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated, or metro system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, that usually has high capacity and frequency, with large trains and total or near total grade separation from other traffic.
In London, the Tower Subway provided a crossing under the River Thames using a tiny cable car for the 410-m journey; the line closed in a matter of months and the tunnel was given over to pedestrians, later becoming a utility conduit.
The Toronto Subway (1954) used the first aluminum subway car (which was at the time also the longest car in the world), which reduced weight and therefore operating costs.
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 cars - Urban heavy rail
In larger metropolitan areas the subway or metro system may extend only to the limits of the central city, or to its inner ring of suburbs, with the trains making relatively frequent station stops.
Similarly, the Independent Subway System in New York City was built to compete with the private and systems, and succeeded in running them out of business (in conjunction with other factors, such as fare limits).
Many older subway systems were originally constructed by private enterprise, either independently as in London, or under a government franchise as in Paris.
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 Subway (disambiguation)
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Writers began to break into subway yards in order to hit as many trains as they could with a lower risk, often creating larger elaborate pieces of art along the subway car sides.
This was stated to be the end for the casual NYC subway graffiti writers, and the years to follow would be populated by only what some consider the most "die hard" writers.
The current era in graffiti is characterized by a majority of graffiti artists moving subway cars to "street galleries." The Clean Train Movement started in May, 1989, when New York attempted to remove all of the subway cars found with graffiti on them out of the transit system.
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 TTC subway map upgraded to Toronto Transit Map - crazed monkey
TTC subway map upgraded to Toronto Transit Map
This map encompasses not only the subway system, but also the full TTC ride guide, including street car, bus, and train lines.
the only issue i have with it, is that when i zoom in, the subway line is sooo bold that i cant see the street names under it.
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 Rapid Heart -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For other uses of the words, see metro (disambiguation) and subway (disambiguation).
But those who prefer the American term "subway" or the British "underground" would additionally specify that the tracks and stations must be
Conversely, those who prefer the American "rapid transit" or the newer term "metro" tend to view this as a less important characteristic and are pleased to include systems that are entirely elevated or at ground level (''at grade'') as long as the other criteria are met.
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 Boston travel guide - Wikitravel
Subway fare is $1.25 ($1.70 after Jan. 1 2007, or 2.00 w/o Charliecard), and exact change is not needed.
The subway system is slightly confusing in that directions are often marked "inbound" and "outbound", rather than with a destination.
Unlimited-ride subway and bus passes are available from the T. If you're going to be riding a lot around town, these are worth investigating.
wikitravel.org /en/Boston   (11167 words)

  
 Subway information - Search.com
Subway (underpass), an underground walkway, usually a tunnel
Subway (canyoneering), a canyon in Zion National Park
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 East River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
63rd Street Tunnel (Trains of the F subway service)
14th Street Tunnel (Trains of the L subway service)
Rutgers Street Tunnel (Trains of the F subway service)
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 directopedia : Directory : Games : Card Games : Special Decks : Metro
The Glasgow Subway (also known as the Underground) is one of the world's oldest unground railway systems.
In some cities the word 'subway' applies to the entire system, in others only to those parts that actually are underground; and analogously for "el".
In fact, almost all subway systems around the world are owned by government entities.
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 Glasgow travel guide - Wikitravel
Glasgow [1] is the largest city in Scotland, and the third largest in the United Kingdom with a population of about 620,000 in the city itself, or over 1.8 million if the surrounding towns of the Clydeside conurbation are taken into account.
Subway trains [4] run in a double circle around the Glasgow city centre and some inner suburbs.
Glasgow School of Art, Renfrew Street (subway: Cowcaddens) is seen as one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest buildings and is one of Britain's pre-eminent schools of art, design and architecture.
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 Captain Marvel (Billy Batson) - DC Database - A Wikia wiki
See also Captain Marvel (disambiguation) for a complete list of references to clarify differences between these closely named or closely related articles.
For shelter, he often slept in the subway terminals.
One night, a mysterious stranger - later revealed to be the spirit of Billy's father - convinced Billy to follow him deep into the subway tunnels.
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 Natural Language Processing Lab., Korea Univ.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As a result of the commitment to state-of-the-art research, we have developed various working systems for processing the natural language (morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, etc.) and for language-dependent applications (information retrieval, spelling correction, linguistic knowledge acquisition, etc.).
Get off at the Anam Subway Station(aka Korea Univ. Hospital).
Exit on gate 4 of the subway station
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