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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, 1914, on the South Island Main Line and Branches.

Line of Railway. Main Line. Branches. Single. Donble. j Main Line. Total Railway. Main Line. Branches. Sidings. Total. Total Equivalent of Single Track. Chkistchttkch Division :— Main Line Rangiora—Sheffield and Eyreton Junction — Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and White Cliffs Branches [Branch Rakaia and Ashburton Porks Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. eh. 17 72 M. ch. M. ch. 229 49 M. ch. 92 30 M. ch. M. ch. 92 30 M. eh. 321 79 58 r>r> 53 56 4 79 44 1 48 7 4 45 6 54 48 46 54 61 69 6 313 46 8 33 35 53 77 30 22 20 27 36 36 13 12 67 3 14 1 75 3 4 2 69 25 34 29 31 39 17 15 56 Totals, Christchurch Division 211 57 17 72 313 46 543 15 92 30 35 53 128 3 671 18 Dunedin Division :— Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch .. Ngapara & Livingstone. Branches Waihemo Branch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Pernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch ! awrence Branch I tlin's River Braneh 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 46 72 6 3 13 1 62 2 44 0 63 3 65 0 79 0 24 10 35 0 63 2 51 2 54 72 6 245 52 40 54 2 45 29 48 9 48 5 11 3 48 2 1 145 6 9 63 32 3 27 68 278 2 29 73 i tals, Dunedin Division .. 165 40 S 6 278 2 451 48 72 6 29 73 101 79 553 47 [nvekca gill Division :— Main L.nc Tapanui Branch Waimea Plains Branch Switzer's Branch Waikaka Branch Wyndham Branch Seaward Bush Branch Kingston Branch Makarewa - Orepuki Branch .. Thombury—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 V 315 67 J 33 73 2 61 3 22 2 3 2 3 1 0 3 3 11 31 9 35 3 69 33 73 116 34 29 2 39 63 15 70 14 60 10 35 36 68 98 31 57 58 28 40 41 3 12 66 10 41 1 13 1 3 13 79 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 315 67 398 28 33 73 41 3 74 76 473 24 Grand Totals—Whole Line.. 459 58 25 78 907 35 1,393 11 198 29 105 27 304 78 1,698 !)