Island Line

Island Line can refer to:

  • Island Line (MTR), one of the ten lines of the MTR metro system in Hong Kong
  • Island Line, Isle of Wight, a railway line on the Isle of Wight, England
  • Island Line Trains, a train operating company in the United Kingdom

Famous quotes containing the words island and/or line:

    ““Our island home
    Is far beyond the wave;we will no longer roam.””
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.