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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, 1917, on the South Island Main Line and Branches.

Line of Railway. Main 1 ,lne. Branches. „ T .? tal Railway. Sidings. Main Line. I Branches. ' Total. Total Equivalent of Single Track. Single. Double. Christchtjroh Division :— Main Line .. .. .. Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction - Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Spiingfield and White Cliffs Branches Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch .. .. Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. 17 72 M. ch. M. ch. 229 49! M. ch. 99 79 M. ch. M. ch. 99 79 M. ch. 329 48 58 55 53 56 I 328 32 4 79 1 36 32 44 1 48 7 4 45 7 28 48 46 55 35 83 72 8 29 92 21 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 99 79 36 32 136 31 694 32 Punedin Division : — Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch .. Ngapara & Livingstone Branches Waihemo Branch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Fernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch Catlin's River Branch 165 40 11 24 37 41 0 03 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 134 51 9 0 34 08 42 68 176 64 73 1.7 3 26 1 72 2 59 0 03 3 65 0 79 0 24 10 61 0 63 3 16 4 59 73 17 250 ] 40 67 2 55 29 63 9 48 5 11 3 48 2 1 145 32 9 63 38 4 47 47 .301 12 33 27 Totals, Dunedin Division .. 165 40 II 24 301 12 477 76 73 17 33 27 106 44 584 40 Inveboabgill 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 WaiiioNightcaps 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 51 315 82 41 67 35 8 2 70 3 29 2 3 1 76 1 0 3 9 "\ 11 35 9 51 4 2 1 15 1 3 35 8 117 49 29 11 39 70 15 70 14 53 10 35 30 74 98 35 57 74 28 53 41 53 12 66 10 41 14 I 11 44 Totals, Invercargil! Division 82 41 315 67 398 28 35 8 41 53 76 61 475 9 Grand Totals—Whole Lino. . 459 58 29 16 945 31 1,434 25 208 24 111 32 319 56 1,754 1