Underground Railway

Underground railway may refer to:

  • The Underground Railroad, a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape
  • Rapid transit, urban railways that sometimes use tunnels

Famous quotes containing the words underground and/or railway:

    “An underground grower, blind and a common brown;
    Got a misshapen look, it’s nudged where it could;
    Simple as soil yet crowded as earth with all.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)