mainline

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In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Maybach was reorganized as Mercedes-Maybach—a sub-brand building small numbers of technically evolved, superluxury variants of mainline products.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

It could have come to life as a lesser kind of Ferrari, a diminished derivative of one of the company’s mainline GT cars, with a turbocharged V8 under the hood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

The train operator LNER, which runs the east coast mainline, has extended its advice to passengers not to travel between Edinburgh and Aberdeen as they "cannot guarantee" trains will operate until Friday at the earliest.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

The 04:28 Avanti West Coast service came off the tracks on the West Coast mainline at Shap in Cumbria on Monday morning after travelling at speeds of 80mph.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

But over the last forty years, evangelicals have pulled steadily closer in income and education to mainline Protestants in the historically affluent establishment denominations.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times