"up line" meaning in English

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          "text": "1857 Alan J Day, Verena Hoffman - The Annual Register of World Events\nThe down line was cleared about midnight, or nine hours after the accident, but the up line was not in a state to admit of the traffic being resumed until one o'clock on the next day."
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          "text": "1842 Francis Whishaw - The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated\nThe number of down-trains daily is fifty-one, and up-trains fifty; the ropes, therefore, travel 155.25 miles on the up-line, and 158.35 miles on the down-line, or altogether 313.60 miles daily."
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          "ref": "1842, Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal",
          "text": "[…] the engine, which continued its course till it reached Roade, when it was crossed from the down to the upline, and returned in safety to Wolverton.",
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        "A railway line on which trains travel towards a major terminus."
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          "ref": "1998, Charles F. Amick, Network Marketing: How to Play by Your Own Rules and Win, page 48",
          "text": "Many uplines convince their distributors to develop an \"us vs. them\" attitude that is completely unfounded in reality.",
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          "text": "2019, Tom “Big Al” Schreiter, How to Build Network Marketing Leaders Volume One\nNo one purposely goes into network marketing saying: “I hope my upline sponsor decides to make me a success and not a failure. I hope my upline is in a good mood today.”"
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        "(marketing, often attributive) A member of a multi-level marketing scheme who has recruited others (their down line) and receives a portion of their earnings."
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        },
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          "text": "1842 Francis Whishaw - The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated\nThe number of down-trains daily is fifty-one, and up-trains fifty; the ropes, therefore, travel 155.25 miles on the up-line, and 158.35 miles on the down-line, or altogether 313.60 miles daily."
        },
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      "word": "upline"
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      "word": "up-line"
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  "word": "up line"
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