Usage of "Underground Railway"

Portuguese

underground railroad

Catalan

underground railroad

Spanish

ferrocarril subterráneo

Secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War.

Underground Railroad

underground railroad

An electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels.

Usage of Underground Railway in English

Travel, I beg you, on the Underground Railway, or in a Tube. 
 Yet Again 

The Metropolitan Underground Railway sent most complete information covering its most interesting work. 
 Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission 

I've been watching your Underground Railway for quite a time. 
 Mr. Standfast 

Advertising enthusiast on his holiday seeking inspiration for a new advertisement for the Underground Railway. 
 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 

Your servants have gone by the Underground Railway-toFrance. 
 Mr. Standfast 

These societies were known as the Underground Railway. 
 The Life of Abraham Lincoln 

It is all arranged by our ' Underground Railway.' 
 Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete 

If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway. 
 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare 

You'll travel to France by the Underground Railway and there be handed over to the French Government. 
 Mr. Standfast 

But it might be difficult to carry an unwilling woman over the first stages of the Underground Railway. 
 Mr. Standfast 

The original owners were Abolitionists and it was said that the house was a stop on the Underground Railway. 
 The new yorker 

Accordingly they had come forward, offering to throw what light they could upon the mysterious affair on the Underground Railway. 
 The Old Man in the Corner 

We call it the Underground Railway, and you will have the privilege of studying its working.... 
 Mr. Standfast 

Ruskin could have found more memories of the Middle Ages in the Underground Railway than in the grand hotels outside the stations. 
 Tremendous Trifles 

The deep tunnels had been dug in the 1920s, for a high-speed extension to the Northern Line of London's Underground Railway system. 
 Neverwhere 

The young Scotchman resented people's merriment over nothing; sometimes he took the Underground Railway just to catch clerks at "Tit-Bits." 
 Better Dead 