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Loop-line   /lup-laɪn/   Listen
Loop-line

noun
1.
A railway branch line that branches from the trunk line and then rejoins it later on.





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"Loop-line" Quotes from Famous Books



... Aubagne, pop. 8100. H. Notre Dame. Omnibus daily to Marseilles, stopping at H. St. Louis. Every train halts at Aubagne. Junction with loop-line to Valdonne, 10m. N., with coal-mines and potteries. Coach from Valdonne to Aix ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... free fresh air, the stir and movement of life too well to pen myself up in a study and pore over blue-books, or to waste the summer evenings listening to the member for Little Peddlington laying down the law about combination drainage, or the proposed loop-line that is intended to connect his borough with the world in general. I'm afraid it isn't in me, mother, and that you'll be sorely disappointed if you set your heart upon my making a ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon


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