What are Tube trains called?

As a rule of thumb, Tube trains (known as rolling stock) are built in two sizes - a smaller 'deep tube' size for lines which run mostly underground in smaller tunnels, and 'sub-surface' for the lines which run mostly above ground with a handful of underground sections in larger tunnels.



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London Underground, also called the Tube, underground railway system that services the London metropolitan area.

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London Underground, also called the Tube, underground railway system that services the London metropolitan area.

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London has a famous underground railway system which we locals call the 'Tube'. This is because many of the tunnels are a round tube shape. Although people call it the 'Underground' or 'Tube', half of the stations are actually above the ground.

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The term metro is a shortened reference to a metropolitan area. Rapid transit systems such as the Washington Metro, Los Angeles Metro Rail, the Miami Metrorail, and the Montreal Metro are generally called the Metro.

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“The Tube” refers to the London Underground that services most of the city, “The Overground” is the rail network that serves Greater London, and “The National Rail” is the train service that connects London to other parts of the UK.

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The London Underground is often called the Tube because of the shape of the tunnels. The London Underground is one of the oldest metro systems in the world, opening in 1863. When the Central Line Railway opened in 1900, it was called the Twopenny Tube, referencing the price of a ticket.

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A city's underground railway system is usually called the underground (often the Underground) in British English and the subway in North American English. Speakers of British English also use subway for systems in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries.

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Since then the Underground network, affectionately nicknamed the Tube by generations of Londoners, has grown to 272 stations and 11 lines stretching deep into the Capital's suburbs and beyond.

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The London Underground is widely known as the Tube with its trains and stations being Tube trains, Tube stations, etc. There are approximately 300 stations on the Tube network, each having a unique name.

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The first metro was opened in London and later most of it was soon built underground (under the city), so it was then called THE UNDERGROUND, even to this day. But in general, in the UK we usually call it THE TUBE, because it mostly goes (or went) inside a tunnel, a tube.

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(tju?b tre?n ) noun. British. an underground train, esp in London. The accident happened when one tube train ran into the back of another.

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“Tube” is a proper noun, it is another name for the London Underground. It is not British English for “metro” and “subway”. “Metro” in both British English and American English is a (possibly seperate) railway and train service that runs within a city with frequent trains and a short distance between stops.

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