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RETURN No. 31. SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINE AND BRANCHES. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1913, on the South Island Main Line and Branches.

Line of Railway. Main Line. Branches. „ T . otal Railway. . Sidings. Main Line. I Branches. Total Equivalent | of Single Total. I Track. Single, j Double. I Jhbistohubch Division : — Main Line .. Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction - Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Spiingfield and White Cliffs Branches [Branch Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. M. ch. 211 57 , 17 72 M. oh. M. ch. 229 49 53 56 I, 44 1 48 7 | 69 6 /-3.13 46 22 20 27 36 36 13 12 67 M. ch. M. ch. 91 76 / 4 74 4 43 6 52 M. 91 34 ch. M. ch. 76 321 45 / 58 50 48 44 I 54 59 70 . 76 65 25 34 29 31 39 17 ! 15 56 I 7 59 3 14 1 75 3 4 2 69 Totals, Christchurch Division 211 57 17 72 313 46 543 15 91 76 34 70 126 66 ' 670 1 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 8 6 37 41 0 63 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 134 51 9 0 29 32 25 14 173 46j 71 70 3 12 1 62 2 17 0 63 3 65 0 79 0 24 10 35 0 63 2 51 2 54 71 70 \ - 29 45 - 71 -29 70 245 :si; / 40 53 2 45 29 21 9 48 5 11 45 3 48 2 I 145 6 9 63 32 3 27 68 , 278 2 " .. Totals, Dunedin Division .. 165 40 8 6 278 2 451 48 71 70 29 45 101 35 553 3 NVEBCABGIIX 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 K | 33 36 ; 2 61 3 22 2 3 2 3 1 0 3 3 , 11 99 35 I 3 69 33 36 115 77 \ '29 2 39 63 15 70 14 60 10 35 40 6] 36 68 *" J 98 9 57 58 28 40 13 79 11 44 ''-315 67 12 66 10 41 1 13 \ 1 3 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 315 67 398 28 33 36 40 61 74 17 I 472 45 302 38 J 1,695 49 Grand Totals —Whole Line.. 459 58 25 78 907 35 1,393 11 197 22 : 105 16