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main lineSee main loop. main line 1. Railways a. the trunk route between two points, usually fed by branch lines b. (as modifier): a main-line station 2. US a main road How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldly coaches; now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges, and a great railway, with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route, traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days. It was in the midst of the great bulk of the Negro population, and was rather secluded, being five miles from the main line of railroad, with which it was connected by a short line. Thomas's Hospital, and through the immense tunnel that passes under the South-Western main line at Vauxhall. |
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