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A tube train at Mornington Crescent station on the Northern Line.Tube trains also come above ground outside inner London - three Jubilee Line trains wait at the Stratford terminus in 2016.
Etymology
Probably named after the shape of the tunnels; the Tube is an informal name for London Underground which has been trademarked.
I took a tube train through the subway systems / I rode those tunnels like a six-foot mole
Usage notes
Tube trains are operated on the Bakerloo, Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo & City Lines. The trains that operate on the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan Lines pass through larger tunnels and accordingly have a larger profile; these should be called underground trains, not "tube trains".
