Meaning of Up-line | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of up line.

alt-of, alternative

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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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