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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, 1921, on the South Island Main Lines and Branches.

Main I .ine. Sidings. Total Equivalent of Single Total. Track. Line of Railway. Branches. _-!?*•' Railway. Single. Double. Main Line, j Branches. 'hristoiitjroh Division :— Main Line Rangiora-Shefneld and Eyreton Junction - Bennett's Waipara-Parnassus Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and White Cliffs Branches Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Branoh Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. oh. 224 52 M. ch. 17 72 M. oh. 53 66 44 1 48 7 83 72 M. oh. 242 44 M. oh. 106 17 M. ch. 5 41 4 44 7 34 8 78 M. oh. 106 17 M. oh 348 61 59 27 48 45 55 41 92 70 328 42: 37 63 22 20 3 24 25 44 27 36 36 13 12 67 1 73 3 13 2 76 29 29 39 26 15 63 Totals, Christchurch Division 224 52 17 72 328 42 571 6 106 17 37 63 144 0 715 6 )unedin Division : — Main Line Duntroon Branch Oamaru-Breakwater Branoh .. Ngapara & Livingstone Branches Waihemo Branch Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Fernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch Oatlin's River Branch 165 40 11 24 37 41 0 63 27 4 8 65 1 26 2 38 1 57 134 51 9 0 34 68 42 78 176 64 74 63 3 31 1 72 2 59 0 63 3 65 0 79 0 26 10 64 0 63 3 16 4 63 74 63 251 47 40 72 2 55 29 63 9 48 5 11 3. 37 2 3 145 35 9 63 38 4 47 61 301 11 33 41 Totals, Dunedin Division .. 165 40 11 24 301 11 477 75 74 63 33 41 108 24 586 19 NVERCAitOILL 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 37 13 67 12 57 9 35 33 65 86 78 48 23 24 58 82 41 s 35 48 2 62 3 29 2 4 1 77 1 0 3 9 11 60 9 36 3 62 35 48 118 9 i 29 3 39 66 15 71 14 54 10 35 36 74 98 58 57 59 28 40 - 315 68 41 30 12 66 10 41 1 14 1 3 14 0 , 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 315 68 398 29 35 48 41 36 77 475 33 Grand Totals—Whole Line.. 472 53 29 16 945 41 1,447 30: 216 48 112 60 329 28 1,776 58