The Little River Rail Trail is a cycling and walking track that opened in 2006, which largely follows the course of the old Little River Branch railway that ran to Little River from its junction with the Southbridge Branch in Lincoln. View lakes Ellesmere (lake Waihora) and Forsthye and the rugged South Pacific ocean at Birdlings flat. This branch line was opened to Little River on 11 March 1886, closed to passengers on 14 April 1951, and closed to all traffic on 30 June 1962 as it was uneconomical to continue. Between 1927 and 1934, Little River railway passengers were served by the experimental and popular Edison battery-electric railcar, the only one of its type to be built. Hire your bike in Christchurch and off you go.
