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RETURN No. 22. SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINES AND BRANCHES. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Lines and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1919, on the South Island Main Lines and Branches.

Line of K,ailway. Main Line. Single. Double. Branches. Sidings. Total Itailway. Main Unci. Branches. Total. Total Equivalent of Single Track. Christohurch Division :— Main Line .. Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction - Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and White Cliffs Branches Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branch Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. M. ch. 211 57 ; 17 72 M. ch. 53 ".56 44 1 48 7 I M. ch. M. oh. I M. ch. 229 49, 102 0 ' A / 5 41 \ 4 45 7 28 M. ch. 102 0 M. oh 331 49 / 58 97 48 46 55 35 83 72 22 20 , 27 36 36 13 12 67 328 32 .. 8 43 "\ 3 16 I 1 73 3 13 1/ \ 2 69 I \_37 8 37 8 J 92 35 25 36 29 29 39 26 \ 15 56 Totals, Christchurch Division 211 57 17 72 328 32 558 102 0 37 8 139 8 697 9 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 Cntlin's River Branch 165 40 11 24 37 41 0 63 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 134 51 9 0 34 68 42 68 176 04 74 52 3 31 1 72 2 59 0 63 3 65 0 79 0 26 10 61 0 63 3 16 4 60 74 52 251 36 40 72 2 55 29 63 9 48 5 II 3 48 2 3 145 32 9 63 38 4 47 48 301 12 33 35 ■ Totals, Dunedin Division .. 165 40 11 24 301 12 477 76! 74 52 33 35 108 7 586 3 [NVEROAliGILL 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 -315 67 35 21 12 62 3 29 2 3 1 77 1 0 3 9 , 11 35 9 32 4 2 1 15 \ 1 3 35 21 117 62 29 3 39 70 15 70 14 54 10 35 36 74 98 35 57 55 28 53 41 27 j 12 66 10 41 14 1 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 315 67 398 28 35 21 41 27 76 48 474 7' Grand Totals—Whole Line. . 459 58 29 16 945 31 1,434 25 211 73 111 70 323 63 1,758