I think we'll need a better definition of subway. I believe in England that's a below-highway pedestrian tunnel.
More seriously, in Boston we sometimes use the word "subway" to refer to
several MBTA lines, and non-train-nerds don't really distinguish between
the Green Line (which is probably "light rail") and the others. Of
course, real trains sometimes run underground (e.g. near New York Penn
Station).
I'm not sure if the distinction you're after is
urban rapid transit with a "every N minutes" notion, tending to have
fare gates
vs
longer-distance "real trains" running on traditional railroad tracks,
with a timetable (including commuter rail), tending to have tickets
and conductors
or
if it's about whether the subway/rapid-transit system is connected to
the national rail system
or
if it's about being in tunnels (which seems not the right issue to
me).
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