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RETURN No. 29. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Hidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1898, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches

Line of Railway. Main Line. Sidings. Branches. Total Railway. Main Line. Branches. Sidings. Total. Total luivalen Single. Double. of Single Track. Chbistchuboh Division : — Main Line ... Rangiora - Sheffield and Eyreton Junction-Bennett's Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and Whitecliffs 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 s M. ch. 6s 76 M. ch. / 4 54 5 29 4 56 M. ch. 65 76 M. ch. 284 1 '5 8 3° 53 36 47 3 •242 65 2 65 -24 1 22 20 2 5 5 27 35 36 13 12 67 1 70 2 45 2 2 29 25 38 58 14 69 Totals, Christchurch Division 211 57 6 28 242 65 460 70 65 76 24 1 89 77 550 67 Dunedin Division : — Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branch ... Ngapara & Livingstone Branches Shag Point Branch Waihemo B ranch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch... Fernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch Catlin's River Branch 163 40 37 4i 0 63 27 4 2 10 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 65 73 9 ° 22 1 19 27 165 40 47 29 2 72 o 24 2 5 o 14 ° 57 3 47 o 50 o 23 3 2 9 0 65 1 67 1 57 47 29 !I2 69 40 33 1 7 29 9 2 24 9 42 4 73 3 19 2 o 69 22 9 6 S 23 68 21 4 •198 16 18 30 Totals, Dunedin Division ... 165 4° 198 16 3 6 3 56 47 29 18 30 65 59 •29 35 Invekoaegull Division : — Main Line ... Tapanui B ranch Waimea Plains B ranch 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 )-24I 71 19 12 12 4 2 18 o 4S 1 34 7 20 , 4 69 2 48 1 3 19 ■22 12 I °i 53 22 8 38 59 10 o 19 4 1 94 20 40 41 27 19 10 41 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 241 71 324 32 19 12 22 1 41 13 |65 45 Q-rand Totals—Whole Line 459 S8 6 28 682 72 1,148 78 132 37 64 32 196 69 1345 67 Riversdale-Switzers Line* Forest Hill Tramway... 2 O IO O * Taken over, but not 'et open for traffic.