Mainline, Main line, or Main Line may refer to:
Transportation
Railway Main line (railway), the principal artery of a railway system Main line railway preservation, the practice of operating preserved trains on an operational railway network
Asia Bangladesh Main line, MRT Line 2 of Dhaka Metro Rail
India Mumbai–Ahmedabad main line Chennai Central–Mysuru main line Gandhidham–Ahmedabad main line Howrah–Barddhaman main line Howrah–Chennai main line New Delhi–Howrah main line New Delhi – Chennai main line
Japan
Arashiyama Main Line Chichibu Main Line Chikuhō Main Line Chūō Main Line Eiden Eizan Main Line Fukushima Rinkai Railway Main Line Hakodate Main Line Hankyū Kōbe Main Line Hankyu Kyoto Main Line Hankyu Takarazuka Main Line Hanshin Main Line Hidaka Main Line Hiroden Main Line Hōhi Main Line Hokuriku Main Line Kagoshima Main Line Kansai Main Line Keihan Main Line Keikyū Main Line Keisei Main Line Kisei Main Line Kyūdai Main Line Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Mizushima Main Line Muroran Main Line Nagasaki Main Line Nankai Main Line Nayoro Main Line Nemuro Main Line Nippō Main Line Ohmi Railway Main Line Ōigawa Railway Ōigawa Main Line Osaka Monorail Main Line Ōu Main Line Rumoi Main Line San'in Main Line Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line San'yō Main Line Sekihoku Main Line Senmō Main Line Shin'etsu Main Line Sōbu Main Line Sōtetsu Main Line Sōya Main Line Takayama Main Line Tōhoku Main Line Tōkaidō Main Line Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line Toyohashi Railroad Azumada Main Line Uetsu Main Line
Korea Trans-Korean Main Line
Pakistan Karachi–Peshawar Line, also referred to as Main Line 1
Philippines PNR North Main Line PNR South Main Line
Sri Lanka Main Line (Sri Lanka)
Thailand Chiang Mai Main Line, between Bangkok and Chiang Mai Ubon Ratchathani Main Line, between Ban Phachi Junction and Ubon Ratchathani
Turkey Adana – Mersin Main Line
Europe Main Line for Europe
Finland Finnish Main Line, between Helsinki and Oulu
Germany Baden main line, between Baden and Constance
Sweden Northern Main Line, between Gävle or Storvik and Ånge Southern Main Line, between Malmö and Katrineholm Western Main Line, between Stockholm and Gothenburg
United Kingdom Brighton Main Line Caledonian main line Chatham Main Line Chiltern Main Line Cornish Main Line East Coast Main Line Great Central Main Line Great Eastern Main Line Great Western Main Line Highland Main Line Main Line Preservation Group, an organisation that eventually became the Great Central Railway heritage railway Mainline Freight, a defunct UK railfreight company Midland Main Line Midland Mainline (train operating company), a defunct UK train-operating company North British Railway Main Line Penrhyn Main Line class, three narrow-gauge steam locomotives built for the Penrhyn Quarry Railway South Eastern Main Line South Humberside Main Line, between Doncaster and Cleethorpes South Wales Main Line South West Main Line West Anglia Main Line West Coast Main Line Wessex Main Line
North America United States Cape Main Line, in Cape Cod, Massachusetts IRT Manhattan Main Line, in New York City Main Line (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad), now the CSX A Line Main Line (Seaboard Air Line Railroad), now the CSX S Line Main Line (Columbus to Chicago), a Pennsylvania Railroad line in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois Main Line (Columbus to Indianapolis via Bradford), a Pennsylvania Railroad line in Ohio Main Line (Pennsylvania Railroad), between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Main Line (Long Island Rail Road), between Long Island City and Greenport, New York Main Line (New York to Hoffmans), a nickname for the CSX Hudson Subdivision Main Line (NJ Transit), formerly part of the Erie Railroad, between Hoboken and Suffern, New Jersey Main Line (Pittsburgh to St. Louis), a Pennsylvania Railroad line between Ohio and Illinois Main Line (Reading Company), the former Reading main line between Philadelphia and Pottsville, Pennsylvania Main Line of Mid-America, a nickname of the former Illinois Central Railroad Main Line Subdivision, owned by CSX Transportation in Kentucky and Tennessee Main Street Line (MATA Trolley), a streetcar line in Memphis, Tennessee Metropolitan main line, a former rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois North Side main line, a rapid transit line in Chicago, Illinois Old Main Line Subdivision, between Relay (outside Baltimore) and Point of Rocks, Maryland Park Avenue main line, the former New York Central Railroad (now Metro-North Railroad) from Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan to Mott Haven Junction in the South Bronx Philadelphia Main Line Philadelphia to Harrisburg Main Line, part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line now owned by Amtrak Philadelphia-to-Washington Main Line RF&P Subdivision, former Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac (RF&P) Main Line SEPTA Main Line, between West Philadelphia and Lansdale, Pennsylvania South Side Main Line (Chicago Transit Authority), in Chicago, Illinois Washington to Atlanta Main Line, owned by Norfolk Southern Railway
Oceania Australia Main Line railway, Queensland South Line, Tasmania, Australia, also called the Main Line Tasmanian Main Line Company, a privately owned railway that existed from 1872 to 1890
New Zealand Canterbury Interior Main Line, a proposed railway on the South Island
Other transport Mainline (aeronautics), an airline carrier's non-regional service Main Line of Public Works, a package of legislation establishing freight transport between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh A toll road system where all vehicles stop at various locations on the highway to pay a toll BCN Main Line (Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line), a canal between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England Ford Mainline, a car model South Yorkshire Transport, a large bus operator in South Yorkshire, England which was renamed "Mainline" in 1993
Music McKenna Mendelson Mainline, a seminal Canadian blues band "Mainline", a song by KISS on their 1974 album Hotter Than Hell "Mainline", a 1979 disco song by Black Ivory Mainline, a 2014 album by Australian hip-hop collective One Day.
Businesses Main Line Broadcasting, a defunct American media company Main Line Health, a not-for-profit health system in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mainline Corporation, former Australian construction company Mainline Railways, a model railway brand now owned by Bachmann
Computing BitTorrent (software), nicknamed mainline by developers denoting its official origins Mainline Linux, the Git repository of Linus Torvalds Trunk or mainline, the primary branch of a software project See also Fork (software development) – a software development edition that is not part of the "Mainline" version
Other uses
Main line, a primary variation in chess Main line (political) (Mainlinie), a historical and political boundary between Northern and Southern Germany, roughly following the River Main
Mainline Drive-In, a drive-in theatre in Gepps Cross, South Australia Mainline Protestant, a group of Christian church denominations "Mainlining," a slang term for intravenous drug use Philadelphia Main Line, a collection of suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
See also
Central line (disambiguation) Mainliner (disambiguation) Old Main Line (disambiguation) Trunkline (disambiguation)