If you are travelling from the Lincoln direction on Hudsons Road you will notice the rail corridor on your left and around Carters Road. There is a line of trees set back from the road and this is where the rail ran . Proceed along this road and you come to the Greenpark township where there was a railway station.
There is still a loading ramp made from sleepers on the site and the corridor is still quite visible here. Remnants of the Little River Branch Today. The branch line to Little River joined the Southbridge Branch at Lincoln and headed out onto Banks Peninsula, finishing up at the Little River township near Lake Forsyth. Like the Southbridge line it was very easy to build running through mainly flat open country with easy curves and gradients.
The first section to Birdlings Flat opened 1882 and the remainder in 1886. Like the Southbridge branch, it closed in 1962. The Little River Branch has been reopened to public access as a rail trail between Motukarara and the terminus. Although the rail trail is being extended back to Christchurch, it follows mostly a different route from the railway north-west of Motukarara.