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RETURN No. 31. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of TracK in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1899, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches.

Main Line. Sidings. Total Equivalent )f Single Track. Line of Railway. Branches. Total Railway. Single. Double. Main Line. Branches. Total. 3HBISTCHTJECH DIVISION : — Main Line ... Rangiora - Sheffield and Eyreton Junction-Bennett's Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and Whiteclift's Branches Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. 6 28 M. ch. 53 56 48 7 42 27 M. ch. 218 5 M. ch. 67 64 M. ch. 4 43 5 30 4 57 M. ch. 67 64 M. eh. '85 69 '58 19 53 37 47 4 22 20 •242 65 2 65 -23 76 25 5 27 35 36 13 12 67 1 70 2 49 2 2 29 25 38 62 14 69 Totals, Christchurch Division 67 64 23 76 211 57 6 28 242 65 460 70 91 60 552 So )tjnedin Division : — Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch ... Ngapara & Livingstone Branches Shag Point Branch Waihemo Branch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch. Fernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch Catlin's River Branch 165 40 37 4i 0 63 27 4 2 10 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 77 o 9 o 22 1 165 40 48 60 2 72 o 24 2 5 o 14 o 55 3 47 o 52 o 23 4 10 0 65 1 67 1 57 48 60 114 20 '40 33 1 7 29 9 2 24 9 40 4 73 3 21 2 o 81 16 9 65 23 68 .21 4 •209 29 ■19 11 19 27 Totals, Dunedin Division ... 165 40 209 29 374 69 48 60 19 11 67 7 1 142 60 iNVEBCABGIUi DIVISION : — Main Line ... Tapanui Branch Waimea Plains Branch Wyndham Branch Seaward Bush Branch Kingston Branch Makarewa-Orepuki Branch Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branches Lumsden-Mararoa Branch 82 41 20 4 36 41 9 35 18 7 87 o 35 52 24 5i 82 41 \ V241 71 1 19 25 2 4 2 36 0 45 1 34 7 20 4 74 2 48 19 25 >22 24 01 66 l22 8 38 77 10 o 19 41 94 20 40 46 27 19 10 41 1 3 MI 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 241 7 1 324 32 19 25 22 24 41 49 366 1 Grand Totals —Whole Line 459 58 6 28 694 5 1,160 11 13s 69 65 31 201 20 1361 31 Riversdale-Switzers Line* Forest Hill Tramway... 2 o ... 10 o * Taken over. hut not ■et open for traffic.