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The Canterbury Interior Main Line was a proposed railway line that would have linked many of the branch lines in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Although it was never built in full, its most northerly portion was constructed. == The proposal == The proposal was created and developed in the 1870s and 1880s as branch lines began to fan out from the then under-construction Main North Line and Main South Line (which together form the South Island Main Trunk Railway). These lines ran from coastal centres inland and were intended to provide better communication and transport for young, fledgling communities and to open up parts of Canterbury for greater, more intensive economic activity - mainly agriculture. The Canterbury Interior Main Line proposal intended to link these branch lines together. It was to leave the Main North Line in Rangiora, head inland to Oxford and Sheffield and then link a number of branch lines at or near their termini before returning to the coast and joining the Main South Line in Temuka, just north of Timaru. The lines linked would have been: *Oxford Branch - the route inland from Rangiora *Eyreton Branch - it was connected to the Oxford Branch *Midland Line - then known as the Malvern Branch, it terminated in Malvern (now known as Sheffield) *Whitecliffs Branch - to meet it in Homebush *Methven Branch *Mount Somers Branch 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canterbury Interior Main Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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