[1][2][3][4] The Great Indian Peninsula Railway extended the line from Bhusawal to Nagpur in 1867.

[5] The 189 km (117 mi)-long, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge Achalpur–Murtajapur–Yavatmal line, known as the Shakuntala Railway was built by a British firm, Killik Nixon & Company, in 1903, to carry cotton from the interior of Vidarbha to the Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line at Murtajapur.

[12] There was a 1,469 kilometres (913 mi)-long 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)-wide metre-gauge line from Jaipur to Secunderabad via Akola.

[16] In 1910, the District Gazetteer of Buldhana gave an account of the railway line and its importance from the point of view of trade: The Nagpur Branch of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway runs a distance of about 47 miles through the District from west to east, and is connected with Khamgaon by a branch from Jalamb 8 miles in length.

The railway stations in the District are Khamkhed, Malkapur, Biswa, Nandura, Jalamb, Khamgaon, Shegaon and Nagjhari.

Nagpur has a workshop for upkeep of passenger coaches and Ajni has facilities for repair of goods wagons.

[22] Coal-based thermal power stations consume large quantities of coal.

[27] Nagpur, Akola and Bhusawal, on this line, are amongst the top hundred booking stations of Indian Railway.