A wireline termination arrangement bridges a telecommunication wireline pair of a telecommunication system equipment backplane with a termination resistor. The backplane adjoins a plurality of card slots. A first end of the termination resistor installed in the backplane is connected to one wire of the wireline pair, and a second end is connected to a plurality of first terminals on the backplane. The first terminals are engageable by associated first ends of jumper conductors installed on respective ones of a plurality of line cards, when the line cards are installed in the card slots. A plurality of second terminals are arranged adjacent to the first terminals, are connected to the other wire of the wireline pair, and are engageable by second ends of the jumper conductors, when the line cards are installed in the card slots, thereby bridging the wireline pair with the termination resistor.