The Achalpur–Yavatmal narrow-gauge line, popular as Shakuntala Railway, meets the electrified 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line at Murtizapur.

The first train in India travelled from Mumbai to Thane on 16 April 1853.

By May 1854, Great Indian Peninsula Railway's Bombay–Thane line was extended to Kalyan.

Bhusawal railway station was set up in 1860 and in 1867 the GIPR branch line was extended to Nagpur.

[1] The 189 km (117 mi)-long Achalpur–Murtazapur–Yavatmal 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge railway, locally known as the Shakuntala Railway, was built by a British firm, Killik Nixon & Company, in 1903.