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Narrator: Branchlines are very important in the running of a railway. They are special secondary routes that branch off from the Main Line, serving small towns and villages as well as farms and various industrial companies such as quarries, factories and harbors. They’re usually run by tank engines, medium-sized tender engines or diesels as bigger tender engines on the Main Line can’t travel on them because of how the rails on some such as the Ffarqhuar Branch, the Little Western and Midland Marina are not strong enough to hold their weight and how different the geography of that area is. These are the routes that can go into different towns or industries the busy Main Line couldn’t stop at. But even so, Branchlines still play a vital role in railway operations, as passengers who don’t live near the stations on the Main Line can catch their trains from guaranteed connections, and goods traffic from these different companies are brought to the junction stations so they can be added onto