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The line opened in 1871 and worked by '''Amraoti State Railway''' was a short Indian State broad gauge([[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|BG]])branch railway connecting [[Amraoti]] to the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] (GIPR)mainline at [[Badnera]] <ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V07_400.gif “Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 7”, p. 394] Retrieved 10 Apr 2018</ref>.

The line with a length of 5½ miles(8.8km) opened in Feb 1871 and worked by [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]] as the ‘GIPR Amraoti Branch’<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n73/mode/1up “Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 65 (pdf73) ]; Retrieved 10 Apr 2018</ref>.  The line was important to transport Amroaoti Amraoti cotton to Bombay via Baderna on the Nagpur branch of the GIPR<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_184.gif “Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, 1908”; p. 178] Retrieved 10 Apr 2018</ref>. The 1870-71 ‘Annual Report on Railways in India’ <ref>[https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=tytcAAAAQAAJ&printsec=GBS.PP597&pg=GBS.RA13-PA38 ‘Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons Vol 19, 1872’ “Annual Report on Railways in India for 1871-72; The Oomrawutee and Khangaum Railways” Paras 89 and 91, page 38, pdf 598]; Retrieved 14 Feb 20169 Apr 2018</ref>gives the spelling as the “Oomrawuttee Railway” . This being the old spelling of [[Amraoti]].