branch line ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a rail line, directly or indirectly connected with a main line, having its own stations and service.
Origin of branch line First recorded in 1840–50 Examples from the Web for branch line Historical Examples of branch line
Maids, courier, and heavier luggage had been sent on earlier by the branch-line.
E. M. Forster
I got to some little junction at last where I had to wait an hour for a branch-line train.
Herbert George Wells
He was still tied and blindfolded, and I hope to be buried alive in a branch-line town if he wasn’t getting bored.
George Fitch
Branch-line service in every part of the land has been a neglected feature of railroad opportunity—as we shall see in due course.
Edward Hungerford
For branch-line passenger service is closely related to this last phase of automobile competition.
Edward Hungerford
British Dictionary definitions for branch line branch line noun
- railways a secondary route to a place or places not served by a main line