"overground" meaning in English

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          "text": "an overground railway",
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          "text": "We have been concentrating on the City because that was the initial target for builders of both overground and underground railways, who were like artists going over and over the same piece of canvas.",
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          "text": "They have plans to carry overground books on gay liberation, and a lot of books from small presses.",
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        "Mainstream, not underground."
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          "ref": "2013, Tobias Hill, The Cryptographer",
          "text": "The overground is ten minutes walk through the gloom. Anna finds a seat in the third carriage she tries.",
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          "ref": "2014, Nicholas Faith, The World the Railways Made",
          "text": "Today dozens more systems are being built – or at least being planned with twelve in China alone – and that's not counting the overgrounds and the tramways!",
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          "ref": "2022 May 19, Lucy Aplin, “New Tube map: How the London Underground map looks with the Elizabeth Line ahead of Crossrail opening”, in i",
          "text": "TfL has released an official map showing how the new Elizabeth Line will slot in with the existing stations, Tube lines and overgrounds.",
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        "(chiefly London) A commuter rail or similar rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally running above the ground."
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          "ref": "2014, Nicholas Faith, The World the Railways Made",
          "text": "Today dozens more systems are being built – or at least being planned with twelve in China alone – and that's not counting the overgrounds and the tramways!",
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        },
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          "ref": "2022 May 19, Lucy Aplin, “New Tube map: How the London Underground map looks with the Elizabeth Line ahead of Crossrail opening”, in i",
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