The branch-line train had clattered in, and Chan was calling to him from the car steps. ❋ Ginny Woods (2010)
David stepped onto the platform and walked toward the branch-line track that led to Princeton University. ❋ Mark Alpert (2008)
Lal Masjid was discovered to be the branch-line station of Al Qaeda. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Luke refused to spend that Saturday night at the Imperial, for the branch-line train to Goondiwindi left only once a week, on Saturday night, to connect with the Goondiwindi — Brisbane mail train on Sunday. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)
That afternoon, however, I caught the branch-line train that winds from Germany's greatest seaport into the country beyond. ❋ Clarke, Comer (1961)
They reached a railroad track, the quadruple track of a branch-line from New York to Philadelphia. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
The C.P.R. construction, including branch-line construction, lasted into the nineties and for a few years afterwards there was little railway construction in Canada. ❋ Unknown (1928)
The Canadian Pacific during this period engaged also in a great deal of branch-line construction. ❋ Unknown (1928)
And as she appraised it with its adjuncts of Turtons and Burtons, the train accompanied her sentences, “pomper, pomper,” the train half asleep, going nowhere in particular and with no passenger of importance in any of its carriages, the branch-line train, lost on a low embankment between dull fields. ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)
It was an easy feat, for a branch-line train is slow to assume special airs. ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)
Maids, courier, and heavier luggage had been sent on earlier by the branch-line. ❋ Unknown (1924)
Maids, courier, heavy luggage, had already gone on by a branch-line to a station nearer Oniton, but there were five hat-boxes and four dressing-bags to be packed, and five dust-cloaks to be put on, and to be put off at the last moment, because Charles declared them not necessary. ❋ Unknown (1924)
She opened the door of her grimy, branch-line carriage, and began to get down her bags. ❋ Unknown (1907)
I do not know the maze into which the train took me, for very soon after leaving Canterbury it must have gone down some branch-line, and though the names were marked at stations, that hardly helped me, for of their situation relatively to London I was seldom sure. ❋ Unknown (1906)
They caught a train on the funny little branch-line which turned them out at Uffington, and, armed with Mr. Scott's present, "The Scouring of the White Horse," which Mary carried and occasionally read scraps from as they walked along, they made for the green hills and the famous animal cut on their side. ❋ Unknown (1903)
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 (1896)
By nightfall they were on board once more and bound for Livingston, a small place, where a branch-line runs a distance of about fifty miles southward to Gardiner, the northern entrance to ❋ Edward Stratemeyer (1896)
Joseph Carew, the talented and widely-respected member for that ancient borough, persuaded the railway company that better communication was needed, and a branch-line was made, on which the service was scarcely less primitive than that of the carriers in the past. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)