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RETURN No. 22. SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Lines and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1918, on the South Island Main Lines and Branches.

Line of Railway. Main: .inc. Sidings. Branches. J r . oW Railway. Double. Main Line. Branches. | Total. Total Equivalent of Single Track. Single. Christchurch Division :— Main Line Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyroton Junction - Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and White Cliffs Branches Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. M. ch. M. ch. M. ch. M. ch. 17 72 .. 229 49 99 79 53 56 \ / 4 79 \ M. ch. 17 72 M. ch. 53 56 M. ch. 229 49 M. ch. 99 79 M. ch. 4 79 M. ch. 99 79 M. ch. 99 79 M. eh. I 329 48 / 58 55 44 1 4 45 48 7 7 2844 1 48 7 4 45 7 2848 46 55 35 83 72 32 .. j 8 29 , r v r 83 72 328 32 8 29 32 36 32 I j 92 21 \ 22 20 3 16 22 20 3 16 25 36 27 36 1 75 36 13 3 11 12 67 J \ 2 69 / 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 I 99 79 3(i 32 136 31 694 32 Dunedin 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 63 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 134 51 9 0 34 68 42 68 176 64 73 34 3 31 1 72 2 59 0 63 3 65 0 79 0 . 26 10 61 0 63 3 16 4 60 73 34 250 18 40 72 2 55 29 68 9 48 5 II 3 48 2 3 145 32 9 63 38 4 47 48 301 12 33 35 Totals, Dunedin Division .. 165 10 11 24 301 12 477 761 73 34 33 35 106 09 584 65 Inveboarqill Division :— Main Line Tapanui Branch Waimea Plains Branch Switzer's Branch Waikaka Branch Wyndham Branch Seaward Bush Branch Kingston Branch Makarewa - Orepuki Branoh .. Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branches Forest Hill Railway Lumsden-Mararoa Branoh .. 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 77 1 0 3 9 11 35 9 51 4 2 35 8 117 49 29 I 1 39 70 15 70 14 54 10 35 36 74 98 35 57 74 28 53 315 67 41 54 12 66 10 41 1 15 1 3 14 1 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 315 67 398 28 35 8 41 54 76 62 475 10 Grand Totals—Whole Line.. 459 58 29 16 945 31 1,434 25 208 41 111 41 320 2 1,754 27