Railway and Subway

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Railway noun - A roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel.

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Subway and railway are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Subway" instead a noun "Railway".

Subway noun - An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city).

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Railway and subway are semantically related. You can use "Railway" instead a noun "Subway".

In 2011, some acts of sabotage were committed against railway and subway lines in Berlin.

Source: Terrorists Without a Cause
Chained to a Railway: Sort of; Smith puts Neo in a wrestling hold in front of an oncoming subway train.

Source: Film / The Matrix
At the same time, a company that has ties to today's Tokyu Electric Railway (the Tokyo Rapid Railway) built a subway line between Shibuya and Toranomon, which opened in 1938, and was extended to 1938 to connect to the Tokyo Underground Railway in Shibuya.

Source: Useful Notes / Tokyo Subways

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