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RETURN No. 31. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 3lst March, 1908, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches.

Line of Railway. Main I Line. Sidings. I Branches. T° ,al Railway. Double. I ', Main Line. Branches. | Total. Total ' Equivalent of Single Track. Single. 1 jiiBisTCiiunoii Division : — Main Line Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction-Bennett's Waipara-Domett Southbridge and Little River Brandies Springfield and White Cliffs Brandies [Branch Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Mount Somen Branch Albliry Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. e 28 M. ch. 53 5 6 31 46 48 7 53 56 11. oh. 218 5 M. ch. 83 25 M. ch. ' 4 55 2 71 5 72 M. ch. 83 25 M. oh. 301 30 / 58 3" 34 37 53 79 1 59 16 285 61 5 40 29 5 22 20 27 36 36 13 12 67 83 25 1 "I 2 70 1 75 2 70 2 32 25 10 29 3i 39 3 15 19 616 16 Totals, Cliristcliurch Division 211 57 6 28 285 61 503 66 29 5 112 30 P Tcjnedin Division:— Main Line Duntroon Branch ... Oamaru-Breakwater Branch Ngapara and. Livings tone Brandies Wailiemo Branch ... Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Fernliill Branch Otago Central Railway On tram Branch Lawrence Branch ... Catlin's River Branch 165 40 2 12 37 4i o 63 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 134 51 9 ° 22 1 22 64 167 52 63 28 3 2 1 62 2 18 o 63 3 65 o 52 o 23 10 19 0 65 1 73 2 9 63 28 231 o / 4O 43 2 45 29 22 9 48 ./ 5 11 3 21 2 o 144 70 9 65 23 74 \ 24 73 •268 21 ■27 5' Totals, Dunedin Division ... 165 40 2 12 268 21 435 73 63 28 27 5i 90 79 526 72 KVKRCARGILL DIVISION : — Main Line Tapanui B ranch Waimea Plains Branch Wyndham Branch ... Seaward Bush Branch ... ! Kingston Branch ... ... ; Makarewa-Orepuki Brandi ... Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNightcaps Branches Forest, Hill Railway ... ; ... 82 41 26 21 36 41 9 35 25 39 87 o 40 16 24 5> 82 41 31 I 2 46 3 2 3 o 77 2 4 9 32 7 « 3 26 3i 1 >3° 57 113 42 i 2867 39 6 4 10 32 27 43 96 32 \ 47 17 27 77 >272 70 12 66 1 5 1 3 13 7 1 V 11 44 10 41 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 272 70 35S 3i 3' 1 30 57 61 58 417 y Grand Totals—Whole Line 459 58 8 40 826 72 87 33 265 7 1,560 17 1,295 I0 "77 54