branch linenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbrɑːntʃ ˌlaɪn/us/ˈbræntʃ ˌlaɪn/a railway that goes from the main railway to small towns and countryside areas
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Railways & railway lines
- Amtrak
- barrier
- buffer
- cable railway
- funicular
- grade crossing
- junction
- light railway
- mainline
- metro
- monorail
- narrow-gauge
- point
- railroad
- railroad tie
- rapid-transit
- signal
- subway
- switch
- track
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Examples from literature
- A branch line connects it with the Canadian Pacific.
- Branch lines were slow and connections poor.
- Here we passed on to a branch line which took us north to the coast.
- It is connected with the city by a G.W.R. branch line, of which it is the terminus.
- To overcome this inconvenience a branch line was afterwards run up to the town itself.