Mainline
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
- Ahmedabad–Mumbai main line
- Chennai Central–Mysuru main line
- Gandhidham–Ahmedabad main line
- Howrah–Bardhaman main line
- Howrah–Chennai main line, between Chennai and Kolkata
- Howrah–Delhi 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
- Pakistan
- Karachi–Peshawar Line, also referred to as Main Line 1
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Chiang Mai Main Line, between Bangkok and Chiang Mai
- Ubon Ratchathani Main Line, between Ban Phachi Junction and Ubon Ratchathani
- Turkey
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, Massachusett
- IRT Manhattan Main Line, in New York City
- Main Line (Atlantic Coast Line Railroad)
- 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 Colony Main Line, between Boston, Massachusetts and the South Shore
- 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
- 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
- All pages with titles containing main line or main lines
- All pages with titles containing Mainline or Mainlines
- Central line (disambiguation)
- Mainliner (disambiguation)
- Old Main Line (disambiguation)
- Trunkline (disambiguation)