The phrase "a subway set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a collection of items or components related to a subway system, such as a model train set or a set of tools for subway maintenance.
Example: "For my birthday, I received a subway set that includes miniature trains and tracks to create my own underground city."
Alternatives: "a metro set" or "an underground train set".
For "Pickup on South Street" (1953), Fuller had a staircase built in a subway set solely to show a character being dragged down it by the feet with his chin smacking each step, because, as he later described the effect, "Dat-dat-dat-dat-dat; it's musical".
The music video for the song features a leather-clad Yankovic "expanding to 800 pounds and bouncing around a subway set".
The Washington Metro subway set a then daily record in ridership of 850,636 as a result.
Lauryn Hill, a megastar since the success of her 1998 solo effort, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, here croons like a Gladys Knight for the subway set.
But there wasn't a wasted moment or gesture in "More Time Than Anybody," a dramatically brilliant, physically exhilarating and utterly hilarious portrait of a group waiting for a subway train, set to Ray Charles's "What'd I Say" and one of the most enjoyable, inventive dances I've seen this year.
Profound courtesy in Washington from the subway set toward strangers.
In a new series devoted to household hints, the editors have so completely lost touch with the subway set as to suggest in one card that occasionally it is fun to "dine formally".
When presented with the new potential parody, Jackson not only approved it, but let Yankovic use his own Moonwalker subway set for the music video.
Still, the current governor's lack of personal time with the subway sets him apart from other New York politicians.
It has already come under fire from tabloid editorialists, who raise a reasonable First Amendment question that is probably being asked by other New Yorkers as well: Has the authority effectively handed veto power over free expression to any extremist who threatens to bomb a subway station or set fire to a bus because he or she or can't abide the message on a poster?
Because the episode was written to take place in a subway system, a set meeting the requirements of the script had to be created.
