Re: USAGE: subway

Hello,

>Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
>> What, then, is the difference between a subway in the
>>train sense and a
>> suburban train? I've always understood the American
>>sense of 'subway'*
>> just to refer to an undeground train system (our
>>underground system is
>> called the loop, generally, as it completes the city
>>loop. It's
>> only three stations).
>
>Certainly subways are prototypically underground, but it
>is quite usual for them to have aboveground portions.
Which is what I referred to in the original posting. The
red east-west line of the Kiev subway (I forget the name -
something like Svyatoshins'ko-Brovars'kaya?) surfaces from
under the hills above the Dniepr bank ('Dnipro'), goes
over the river to 'Hydropark', over the river again
('Livoberezhna') and off further west on the left bank
('Darnytsya', 'Chernihivs'ka', 'Lisova').

In Moscow, the whole of the Filyovskaya line from
'Kievskaya' onwards is above the ground, as well as
stretches in the south-east on the Krasnopresnenskaya line
and in the east on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya (with a whole
station 'Izmailovsky Park' on the surface). There's also
the newly restored 'Vorobyovy Gory', which is situated on
a bridge across the river (I pass it every day on my way
to University).

So, whew, I've written a whole useless letter :-)

Pavel