The Shakuntala Express was a
passenger train
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that ran between
Yavatmal
Yavatmal ( is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Yavatmal District. Yavatmal is around 90 km away from divisional headquarters Amravati while it is away from the st ...
and
Achalpur
Achalpur (), formerly known as Ellichpur and Illychpur, is a city and a municipal council in Amravati District in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the second most populous city in Amravati District after Amravati and seventh most populous ...
, in the state of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
in India. Originally called –– Express, it was renamed after
Shakuntala Deshmukh née
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Jadhav, who was wife of freedom fighter
Balwantrao Deshmukh.
In 2016,
Indian Railways
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announced that the Shakuntala Express would be cancelled due to the track conversion to
broad gauge
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways.
Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...
.
Government to take over Shakuntala, only private railway line, convert to broad gauge
/ref> The express service was actually stopped in 2020, and the conversion of tracks to broad-gauge started in same year.
See also
* Shakuntala Railway
Notes
References
External links
Shakuntala Express 52131
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Shakuntala Express 52137
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Defunct trains in India
Rail transport in Maharashtra
Railway services introduced in 1903
Railway services discontinued in 2020
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