subway tunnels
Train tubes below
Subway tunnels are the underground passages through which subway trains travel.
Cities with subway systems have extensive networks of these tunnels running beneath streets and buildings: The subway tunnels flooded during the storm.
The term sometimes appears in discussions of urban infrastructure, homeless populations seeking shelter, or urban exploration.
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- metroUrban rail transit
- transit systemUrban passenger network
- trainsLinked rail carriages
- platformRaised flat structure
train cars · platform edge · mind the gap · tracks · darkness · late night · concrete · rats · graffiti · urban exploration · stations · commuters · rush hour · rumble · echoes · fluorescent · tiles · ventilation
- Underground placescatacombs, bunkers, bomb shelters, metro stations, salt mines
- undergroundunderground, subterranean, cave systems, underground passages, tube
- Hidden Systemsunderground pipes, sewers, plumbing, wiring, roots
- Chicago infrastructureCTA, Chicago L, the L, L train, elevated trains
- tunnelsportal, bore, TBM, Chunnel, underground passages
- tunnel termsbore, TBM, portals, lining
subway tunnelselevated tracks
Raised rail infrastructure
elevated railways · skyways · overpasses · viaducts · suspension bridges
subway tunnelssurface streets
Ground-level urban roadways
open road · promenades · tram lines · boulevards · boulevard
subway, subways, tunnel, tunnels, tunneled, tunneling, tunneler, ways, wayward