How To Use Branch line In A Sentence
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This involved crossing a part of the line where there were several sidings and branch lines, on which a good deal of pushing of trucks and carriages to and fro -- that is "shunting" -- was going on.
The Iron Horse
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The building of branch lines could transform a previously struggling region.
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Some lines are busy express routes, others are branch lines that have barely any traffic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Manchester 765 seen operating here in Heaton Park, Manchester on a former tramway branch line into the park. 3.
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Aside from yard switchers, some of the earliest road locomotives were small units used on branch lines in isolated situations.
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A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp.
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Some lines are busy express routes, others are branch lines that have barely any traffic.
Times, Sunday Times
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From tomorrow until February 20, Thomas is taking a break from his branch line to visit the Museum, where young people will be able to stand on the footplate of the ‘Really Useful Engine’ and meet some of his friends from the Island of Sodor.
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I'm now sat on the train from London to Braintree, a town at the end of a branch line off the main capital to coast route.
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The branch line can be mapped as a line running next to the main line until the location where they split off.
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The Alamein line is one of two branch lines, neatly tucked away in the mid suburbs, that feeds into one of the main lines on the suburban network.
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The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
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Such branch lines are of course vulnerable to changes in output level or distribution policy of their users.
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Such branch lines are of course vulnerable to changes in output level or distribution policy of their users.
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Rail experts predict that a likely cut in government funding will mean the closure of some branch lines and loss-making routes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not just the branch lines but the main line too, where local commuter trains which have standing room only are being withdrawn.
Times, Sunday Times
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The building of branch lines could transform a previously struggling region.
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The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
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All are linked by a model railway, with more than 400 metres of realistically signalled main and branch lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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This provoked outrage in the industry and among those whose branch line was set for the chop.
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The busway will carry a bus every eight minutes; comparable branch lines carry one train an hour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The latter is the branch line on which the mysterious ghost train was heard.
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The latter is the branch line on which the mysterious ghost train was heard.
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The many-closed branch lines no longer have rails.
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The rail company may have to close the branch line to Uckfield.
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In my anxiety I got a much earlier train, and when I changed onto the branch line was afflicted with almost overpowering excitement at this journey into the remote past.
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Such branch lines are of course vulnerable to changes in output level or distribution policy of their users.
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You never knew when a toy train might whizz past on a branch line beneath the sofa or a doll's house might be discovered, ready for occupation, in his workshop.
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Commuters could benefit from plans to provide car parking at a branch line railway station.
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Then she went down the branch line to Port Penrhyn.
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British Railways closed the ailing branch line to passenger traffic in December 1961 and the last freight train ran several months later.
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In the meantime the blustrous March weather, which was so unsuited to long railroad journeys, and all that waiting about at junctions and at little windy stations on branch lines, incidental to the inspection of estates scattered over a large area of country, served very well for
Birds of Prey
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The branch line is threatened with closure.
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The rail company may have to close the branch line to Uckfield.
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From this main trunk should be branch lines of "laterals," laid from eight to twelve feet apart, as they would be laid for draining a field.
Three Acres and Liberty
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A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp.
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The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
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West Cranmore Station Somerset typical of the rural branch lines of the country.
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To the accompaniment of vintage jazz records, the train chugs up and down the otherwise closed branch line from Arcady to Flaxfield Junction.
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Not surprisingly, the building of branch lines and the provision of freight sidings never failed to create controversy.
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Main line services can be very quick, but travelling on the branch lines is much slower.
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West Cranmore Station Somerset typical of the rural branch lines of the country.
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By that train, the letter was sent towards the metropolis as far as the junction of the Barset branch line, but there it was turned in its course, and came down again by the main line as far as Silverbridge; at which place, between six and seven in the morning, it was shouldered by the Framley footpost messenger, and in due course delivered at the Framley Parsonage exactly as Mrs. Robarts had finished reading prayers to the four servants.
Framley Parsonage
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Not surprisingly, the building of branch lines and the provision of freight sidings never failed to create controversy.
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Branch lines were arranged to tap either mineral resources or new areas of settlement.
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The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
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A typical branch line country station complete with signal box has been created.
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A typical branch line country station complete with signal box has been created.
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A typical branch line country station complete with signal box has been created.
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The railway company extended a branch line to Brightlingsea to convey fish direct to Billingsgate.
