What is Branch line?
[[Image:Railway kilometre peg.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The '0 kilometre peg' marks the start of a branch line in [[Western Australia]].]] A '''branch line''' is a secondary [[Rail transport|railway]] line. It links to a more important route, usually a [[main]] [[line]]. A very short branch line may be called a '''''spur line'''''. [[David Blyth Hanna]], the first president of the [[Canadian National Railway]], said that although most branch lines cannot pay for themselves, they are essential to make main lines pay.<ref>Hanna, David Blyth, Macmillan 1924</ref><ref>Dow, Andrew, ''Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations'', JHU Press 2006</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{transport-stub}} [[Category:Transport infrastructure]]