joint line
noun1
Rail transport, Railways, Transport A railway that is or was owned and operated by more than one company.
- The engine was No. 60920, which was seen passing southbound through Preston and then at about 1.0 p.m. heading its train over the former joint line from Warrington via Helsby to the Chester district; [...]1959 April, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 221:
- One feature of company organisation which nationalisation has swept away is the joint line—the railway owned by two or more companies, and worked by a separate management or maybe by one of the partners.1960 June 23, R. M. G. Baker, “The Metropolitan & Great Central Joint Line—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 390: