Stations
The following stations were located on the Fairlie Branch (in brackets is the distance from Washdyke):
- Racecourse (?? km)
- Cartwright's Road Crossing (?? km)
- Levels (5.91 km)
- Waitawa (approximately 10 km)
- Pleasant Point (14.42 km)
- Sutherlands (21.89 km)
- Cave (29.89 km)
- Ma Waro (35.38 km)
- Albury (41.18 km)
- Tengawai (approximately 42 km)
- Cricklewood (47.73 km)
- Winscombe (52.75 km)
- Fairlie (56.89 km), known as Fairlie Creek until a name change was approved on 9 May 1892
- Eversley (58.2 km)
The Fairlie station was destroyed by fire on at least two occasions, first on 13 January 1890 and again on the night of 8 August 1908. After the 1908 fire, the post and telegraph office formerly based at Fairlie station was housed in a temporary building; this too was burnt down in a suspected act of arson on the morning of 20 September 1908.
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