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railway lines

railway lines is the plural of railway line.

Meaning of railway line

Noun

railway line (plural railway lines)

  1. (UK) A railway track; a pair of rails on which a railway train runs.
  2. (UK) A group of railway tracks running parallel, allowing one track to be used for each direction (a double-track railway line), or allowing segregation of fast trains from stopping trains (a four-track railway line).
  3. (UK) An organization that runs a railroad.

Questions about railway lines

What is railway lines the plural of?
Railway lines is the plural of railway line.

Words near railway lines in the dictionary

  1. railway gun
  2. railway guns
  3. railway key
  4. railway keys
  5. railway line
  6. railway lines
  7. railway poplar
  8. railway signal
  9. railway signals
  10. railway sleeper
  11. railway sleepers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: railway lines (page history and authors); railway line (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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