From north to south, the following line branch off, most to dead ends:

Today Alton station is the terminus of a main line branch, although it was at one time the junction for three lines.

Another main line branches northwestward from Sukkur to Quetta.

At Wadala Road, the line branches into two parts.

Slightly off platform, a line from the main line branches of into the camp.

The station was at the end of a single line branch with a single platform on which was sited the stone and wood station building.

The line branches off the Illawarra line immediately south of Sutherland station.

Here the line branches in two, with one branch running south along the coast to Troon and Ayr.

A branch pylon is used to start a line branch.

Later, of course, engines of the Stirling and Ivatt vintage found their way down the single line branch.