Shakuntala Railway is a broad gauge rail line between Yavatmal and Achalpur in Maharashtra in central India.

[2] The company built this narrow-gauge line in 1903 to carry cotton from cotton-rich interior areas of Vidarbha to the Murtizapur Junction on main broad gauge line to Mumbai from where it was shipped to Manchester in England.

[2][3] A ZD-steam engine, built in 1921 in Manchester, pulled the train for more than 70 long years after being put in service in 1923.

In 1944, Shakuntala Jadhav married a Daryapur landlord, Balawantrao Deshmukh, who was also a freedom fighter.

A British railway officer offered them the first-class coach for travel as they were newlyweds.