Meaning of Up-line | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of up line.

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Examples

“1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar, Then when the next train⟳ came in and stopped, Bobbie went across the metals of the up-line and stood beside the engine. She had never been so close⟳ to an engine before. It looked much larger and harder than she had expected, and it made her feel⟳ very small indeed, and, somehow, very soft--as if she could very, very easily be hurt⟳ rather badly.”

“The number⟳ of down-trains daily is fifty-one, and up-trains fifty; the ropes, therefore, travel⟳ 155.25 miles on the up-line, and 158.35 miles on the down-line, or altogether 313.60 miles daily.”

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