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RETURN No. 22. SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1916, on the South Island Main Line and Branches.

Line of Railway. Main Line. Sidings. Branches. „ 1 > tal Railway. Single. Double. Main Line. Branches. Total. Total Equivalent of Single Track. Christchurch Division :— Main Line Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction - Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Spiingfield and White Cliffs Branohes Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. 17 72 M. ch. 53 56 44 1 48 7 83 72 M. ch. 229 49 328 32i M. ch. 98 56 M. ch. 4"79 4 45 6 74 8 16 M. ch. 98 56 35 65 M. ch. 328 25 58 55 48 46 55 1 92 8 22 20 3 16 25 36 27 36 36 13 12 67 1 75 3 11 2 69 29 31 39 24 15 56 Totals, Christchurch Division 211 57 17 72 328 32 558 1 98 56 35 65 134 41 692 42 Dunedin Division :— Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch .. Ngapara & Livingstone Branohes Waihemo Branch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Fernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrenco Branch » Catlin's River Branch 165 40 11 24 37 41 0 63 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 134 51 9 0 34 68 42 68 176 64 73 O 3 13 1 72 2 44 0 63 3 65 0 79 0 24 10 40 0 63 3 13 4 51 73 2 249 66 40 54 2 55 29 48 9 48 5 11 3 48 2 1 145 11 9 63 38 1 47 39 301 12 32 47 Totals, Dunedin Division .. 165 40 11 24 301 12 477 76 73 2 32 47 105 49 583 45 Invercargill Division :— Main Line Tapanui Branch Waimea Plains Branch Switzer's Branch Waikaka Branch Wyndham Branch Seaward Bush Branch Kingston Branch Makarewa - Orepuki Branch .. Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branches Forest Hill Railway Lumsden - Mararoa Branch .. 82 41 26 21 36 41 13 67 12 57 9 35 33 65 87 0 48 23 24 51 82 41 35 8 2 70 3 29 2 3 1 76 1 0 3 5 11 35 9 49 4 2 35 8 117 49 29 11 39 70 15 70 14 53 10 35 36 70 98 35 57 72 28 53 315 67 41 52 12 66 10 41 1 20 1 3 14 6 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 315 67 398 28 35 8 41 52 76 60 475 s Grand Totals—Whole Line.. 459 58 29 16 945 31 1,434 25 206 66 110 4 316 70 1,751 . 15