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n. the boundary between two districts
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The District line is a London Underground service that crosses Greater London from east to west. From Upminster, the eastern terminus, the line runs through Central London to Earl's Court before dividing into three western branches, to Ealing Broadway, Wimbledon and Richmond. There is a short branch that goes from Earl's Court to . A branch also runs north from Earl's Court to Edgware Road via Paddington. Coloured green on the tube map, the line serves 60 stations in , and with bridges across the Thames on the Wimbledon and Richmond branches is the only London Underground line to cross the river in this way. The track and stations between Barking and Aldgate East are shared with the Hammersmith & City line, and between Tower Hill and Gloucester Road and on the Edgware Road branch with the Circle line. Some of the stations are shared with the Piccadilly line. Unlike London's deep-level tube railways, the railway tunnels are just below the surface, and the trains are of a similar size to those on British main lines.
The District line is the busiest of the sub-surface lines as well the fifth busiest line overall on the London Underground with over 208 million passengers in the year 2011/12.
The original Metropolitan District Railway (as it was then called) opened in December 1868 from South Kensington to Westminster as part of a plan for an underground 'inner circle' connecting London's main-line termini. Services were operated at first using wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. Electrification was financed by the American Charles Yerkes, and electric services began in 1905. In 1933 the railway was absorbed by the London Passenger Transport Board. In the first half of the 1930s the Piccadilly line took over the Uxbridge and Hounslow branches, although a peak-hour District line service ran on the Hounslow branch until 1964. Kensington (Olympia) has been served by the District line since 1946, and a short branch to closed in 1959. The trains carried guards until one-person operation was introduced in 1985.
The signalling system is being upgraded, and the current D Stock trains are to be replaced by new 7-car S Stock trains by the end of 2016.
District Line is the seventh solo album from former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman Bob Mould.
Returning from his previous solo album, Body of Song, are drummer Brendan Canty, of Fugazi fame, and cellist Amy Domingues. Mould handled all of the other instruments himself.
The closer, "Walls in Time," is actually a track that failed to make his 1989 solo debut, Workbook.
Usage examples of "district line".
They were standing on the Embankment, the miles-long walkway that the Victorians had built along the north shore of the Thames, covering the drainage system and the newly created District Line of the Underground, and replacing the stinking mudflats that had festered along the banks of the Thames for the previous five hundred years.
Kenn's eyes focused, and he saw they were beside the main highway into Bessmer, at the next district line.
You leave here, go up Sixteenth Avenue, over the District line and the motel is right here.
Of Elliott and Sara and Cath and I, tumbling laughingly after the Old Man, off the train and through the beckoning passages to the District Line and the Tower of London.
Well, Tellian's been worried about Mathian for some time, and when he discovered that he and Haladhan had been quietly discussing certain `contingencies' with the younger and more hotheaded of the minor lords here in Glanharrow and across the district line in Tharkonswald, he got even more worried.
Well, Tellians been worried about Mathian for some time, and when he discovered that he and Haladhan had been quietly discussing certain contingencies with the younger and more hotheaded of the minor lords here in Glanharrow and across the district line in Tharkonswald, he got even more worried.
Well, Tellian's been worried about Mathian for some time, and when he discovered that he and Haladhan had been quietly discussing certain 'contingencies' with the younger and more hotheaded of the minor lords here in Glanharrow and across the district line in Tharkonswald, he got even more worried.
Once again this was eastbound, although it was on the District Line rather than the Circle Line.
Those environmental officers say they'll confiscate the animals and run us in if we cross the district line.
And he knew Washington, so when they headed toward it on Highway 4, which turned into Pennsylvania Avenue before the District Line, he became more convinced that they were headed to the CIA office, which was in the 2400 block of E Street.
The turnstile's oblong vertical pads snapped open before him as he plucked the ticket out of the machine's steel mouth, and Patel pushed through, along with about a hundred other people, making his way toward the stairs leading to the Circle Line and District Line platforms.
He'd even heard people admit that their response to IRA bomb scares - and explosions - at London railway stations was to think 'Oh, well in that case, I'd better take the District Line'.
They'd given him a route, Victoria to Oxford Circus on the Victoria Line, the Circus to Netting Hill Gate on the Central Line, then the District Line to Edgware Road, then Bakerloo to Watford.
It didn't look district line, exactly, but my question was ignored.